Book description
'Do not read this book in public. You will risk severe internal
injuries from trying to suppress your laughter. What's worse, you can't
put it down once started. Its addictive powers stun all normal, decent
resistance within seconds. Not to be missed.' Sunday Times 'All that
really needs to be said to recommend Unreliable Memoirs is that he
writes exactly as he talks, which is all his millions of fans could
wish.' Valerie Grove, Evening Standard 'Enormously funny . . . well up
to best James standard. Buy it.' Cosmopolitan 'Of James's jokes it is
hard to find anything adequate to say. They are so funny that you had
better not read the book on a train, unless you are unselfconscious
about shrieking and snorting in public. They are vivid, cumulative and
full of surprises.' Observer 'His public's fun will consist of picturing
their favourite wit and pundit, reduced in imagination to short-trouser
size, wrestling with snakes and aunties and mutual-masturbators in the
bush-bordering suburbs of post-war Sydney. These fancies are the more
delicious for being called up in the familiar two-fisted prose. The old
boy may be forty, but he times a punch-line disgustingly well.' Russell
Davies, Listener Clive James is the author of more than twenty
books, including collections of essays, literary and television
criticism, travel writing, novels and verse, plus his famous 'unreliable
memoirs'. 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.
