North Face of Soho
06 April 2007Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Synopsis
Read by the author, Clive James.
From Fleet Street to the television, North Face of Soho is the fascinating and hilarious fourth volume of memoir from much-loved author, poet and broadcaster Clive James.
'[James] delivers his gags with honed elegance' – Sunday Times
It is 1968. Newly married, dressed in the style of the times ('a frenzy of bad judgement'), Clive James is...
Details
06 April 2007288 minutes
Clive James
9780230701236Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Reviews
His proses mixes together cleverness and clownishness, and achieves a fluency and a level of wit that makes his pages truly shimmer.Financial Times
It’s not just that he writes a lot, but that he writes with intense perfectionism, and delivers his gags with honed eleganceSunday Times
I feel I know more about the author after reading it than I gleaned from all of his other books put together. This is a book about hard-earned self-knowledge. What makes it funny is quite how hard the self-knowledge was to earnWilliam Leith, Evening Standard
