Clive James is the author of more than thirty books. As well as his memoirs, he has published essays, literary and television criticism, travel writing, verse and novels. 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 production 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.
Nobody writes like Clive James; he has invented a style.
*Spectator*
He turns phrases, mixes together cleverness and clownishness, and
achieves a fluency and a level of wit that make his pages truly
shimmer . . . May Week Was In June is vintage James.
*Financial Times*
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