Clive James

An expatriate Australian broadcast personality and author of cultural criticism, memoir, fiction, travelogue and poetry. Translator of Dante.

Books in order of publication:

Visions Before Midnight	1977
Unreliable Memoirs (Unreliable Memoirs # 1)	1980
The Crystal Bucket: Television Criticism from “The Observer,” 1976-79	1981
Glued to the Box: Television Criticism from The Observer, 1979–82	1982
Brilliant Creatures	1983
Falling Towards England (Unreliable Memoirs # 2)	1985
Flying Visits: Postcards From The Observer 1976-83 (Picador Books)	1985
Snakecharmers in Texas	1988
May Week Was in June (Unreliable Memoirs # 3)	1990
Brrm! Brrm!	1991
Clive James on Television: Criticism from the Observer, 1972–1982	1991
The Silver Castle	1996
Reliable Essays: The Best of Clive James	2001
Even As We Speak: New Essays 1993-2001	2001
As of This Writing: The Essential Essays, 1968-2002	2003
The Meaning of Recognition	2005
North Face of Soho (Unreliable Memoirs # 4)	2006
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts	2007
Opal Sunset: Selected Poems, 1958-2008	2008
The Blaze of Obscurity (Unreliable Memoirs #5)	2009
The Revolt of the Pendulum: Essays 2005-2008	2009
A Point of View	2011
Nefertiti in the Flak Tower: Poems	2012
Cultural Cohesion: The Essential Essays	2013
The Divine Comedy	2013
Poetry Notebook: 2006–2014	2014
Latest Readings	2015
Inferno	2015
Sentenced to Life: Poems	2015
Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the Intensity of Language	2015
Play All: A Bingewatcher’s Notebook	2016
Injury Time	2017
The River in the Sky	2018
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin	2019