May Week Was in June - Tapa dura

This work forms the third part of Clive James's not entirely reliable memoirs. The text covers the period of his life spent at Pembroke College, Cambridge and follows his escapades as literary editor of Granta and his travels to Florence following Shelley's footsteps.

Clive James was educated at Sydney University and Cambridge where he was president of Footlights. In addition to his bestseller Unreliable Memoirs and its equally successful sequel Falling Towards England, he has published two novels, Brilliant Creatures and The Remake, four mock-epic poems; four books of literary criticism; a book of travel pieces, Flying Visits; and his poems 1958-85. Betweeen 1972 and 1982 he was a television critic for the Observer.