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CULTURAL AMNESIA
CLIVE JAMES is the author of more than thirty books. As well as essays and novels, he has published collections of literary and television criticism, travel writing and verse, plus four volumes of autobiography, Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England, May Week Was in June and North Face of Soho. As a television performer he has appeared regularly for both the BBC and ITV, most notably as writer and presenter of the ‘Postcard’ series of travel documentaries. He helped to found the independent television company Watchmaker, and the Internet enterprise Welcome Stranger, one of whose offshoots is a multimedia personal website, www.clivejames.com. In 1992 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia, and in 2003 he was awarded the Philip Hodgins memorial medal for literature.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
A U T O B I O G R A P H Y
Unreliable Memoirs
Falling Towards England
May Week Was in June
Always Unreliable
North Face of Soho
F I C T I O N
Brilliant Creatures
The Remake
Brrm! Brrm!
The Silver Castle
V E R S E
Peregrine Prykke’s Pilgrimage through the London Literary World
Other Passports: Poems 1958–1985
The Book of My Enemy: Collected Verse 1958–2003
C R I T I C I S M
The Metropolitan Critic (new edition, 1994)
Visions Before Midnight
The Crystal Bucket
First Reactions (US)
From the Land of Shadows
Glued to the Box
Snakecharmers in Texas
The Dreaming Swimmer
Fame in the Twentieth Century
On Television
Even as We Speak
Reliable Essays
As of This Writing (US)
The Meaning of Recognition
T R A V E L
Flying Visits
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