Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
$21.95 AUD
Category: Books, Writing and Language
Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young would-be poet, on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Accompanying the letters is a chroni ...Show more
Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy by Benjamin Balint
$29.99 AUD
Category: Books, Writing and Language
When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend and champion Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfil Kafka's last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscripts. Instead, Brod devoted the rest of his life to canonizing Kafka as the most prescient chronicler of the twentieth century. By betraying Kafk ...Show more
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Books, Writing and Language
Shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayNamed a Best Book of 2018 by TIME, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Wired, Esquire, Buzzfeed, Paste, Bitch, Bustle, The Chicago Review of Books and iBooksAs a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as 'masterful' by ...Show more
The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands by Huw Lewis-Jones
$55.00 AUD
Category: Books, Writing and Language
Maps can transport us, they are filled with wonder, the possibility of real adventure and travels of the mind. This is an atlas of the journeys that writers make, encompassing not only the maps that actually appear in their books, but also the many maps that have inspired them and the sketches that the ...Show more
Dark Interval by Rainer Maria Rilke; Ulrich Baer (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Books, Writing and Language
From the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, collected and published here in one volume for the first time. Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke's voluminous, never-before-translated letters to bereaved friends and acquaintances, The Dark Interval is a profound visi ...Show more
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
$22.99 AUD
Category: Books, Writing and Language | Reading Level: very good
Damien Cave: (New York Times bureau chief in Sydney & friend of Bookoccino) "Not many books about writing manage to be both as practical and entertaining as this one. Even if you've never read a Stephen King novel, the insights he shares will change how you read and write (and maybe how you live)." ...Show more
Confabulations by John Berger
$16.99 AUD
Category: Books, Writing and Language | Series: Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
'Language is a body, a living creature ...and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language. In this new book he writes about language itself, and how it relates to thought, art, song, storytelling and pol ...Show more