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Index
Cover
Title page
Contents
Unreliable Memoirs
Title page
Dedication page
Epigraph page
Contents
Preface
1. The Kid from Kogarah
2. Valley of the Killer Snakes
3. Billycart Hill
4. The Force of Destruction
5. Enter the Flash of Lightning
6. Dib, Dib, Dib, Dib
7. Eros and the Angel
8. The Imitation of Christ
9. Milo the Magnificent
10. The Sound of Mucus
11. A Prong in Peril
12. All Dressed Up
13. Let Us Rejoice, Therefore
14. Basic Training
15. Very Well: Alone
16. Fidgety Feet
17. That He Should Leave His House
Falling Towards England
Title page
Dedication page
Epigraph page
Contents
Preface
1 Soft Landing
2 Beyond the Valley of the Kangaroos
3 Soul for Sale
4 Into the Hinterland
5 Cracking the Secret Code
6 Statistical Catastrophe
7 The Birmingham Decision
8 The Man in the Brown Paper Bag
9 Solvitur acris James
10 Fairy Mild Green Liquid Godmother
11 The Warping of the Ninth
12 Fiorenza, Fiorenza
13 Like a Burnished Throne
14 Back to Square One
15 The Green Gladiolus
16 Autumn of the Expatriates
17 The Deep Tan Fades
18 Prelude to the Aftermath
May Week Was In June
Title page
Dedication page
Epigraph page
Contents
Preface
1 Gentlemen, Sport Your Oaks!
2 The Dear Old College
3 Sleeping Tiger
4 Unquiet Flow the Dons
5 Yanks on the Cam
6 Meet Keith Visconti
7 The Ostrich Alternative
8 Well Interrupted, Pembroke
9 Wanting and Found Tested
10 Attack of the Killer Bee
11 Full Velvet Jacket
12 Hell Below Zero
13 Fantasy Island
14 Frisbees Fly at Dusk
15 Hit of the Fringe
16 Black Tie, White Knuckles
17 With a Human Face
18 The Kid’s Last Fight
Epilogue
North Face of Soho
Title page
Dedication page
Epigraph page
Contents
Introduction
1. Blotto Voce
2. Gateway to Grub Street
3. Enter the Master Swordsman
4. Early Steps in Opposite Directions
5. Night of the Killer Joint
6. Waking Up Absurd
7. Square-Eyed in Darkness
8. Star Encounters of the First Kind
9. A Lunch is Born
10. Pasting It Together
11. Welcome to the Colosseum
12. Pygge to the Rescue
13. The Name’s Prykke: Peregrine Prykke
14. Tynan Steps In
15. All Day Sunday
16. Beyond the Attack of the Killer Bees
17. Nice Bike, Captain Starlight
The Blaze of Obscurity
Title page
Dedication page
Epigraph page
Contents
Introduction
1. Out of the Frying Pan
2. Ferrets to the Rescue
3. White Knuckles of Africa
4. Elephant Walk
5. Pause to Regroup
6. Alpine Idyll
7. The Weekly Stint
8. Economy of Effort
9. We’ll Always Have Paris
10. Keeping the Balance
11. Dealing with Genius
12. Destination Tokyo
13. Pageant Cities
14. The House has the Edge
15. Focus on the Name
16. Throw to Australia
17. Shanghai Express
18. Wheels at Speed
19. It Would Be An Honour
20. Where All Roads Lead
21. Pushing It
22. Back to Basics
23. Company Store
24. First Tango
25. In this Valley of Dying Stars
26. What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted?
27. As Time Ran Out
28. Late Final Extras
29. Driven Men
30. Trumpets at Sunset
Epilogue: The Return of the Metropolitan Critic
Author biography
Also by Clive James
Copyright page
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