Don Watson
Don Watson's Recollections Of A Bleeding Heart: Paul Keating Prime Minister, won the Age Book of the Year and Non-Fiction Prizes, the Brisbane Courier Mail Book of the Year, the National Biography Award and the Australian Literary Studies Association's Book of the Year. His Quarterly Essay, Rabbit Syndrome: Australia and America won the Alfred Deakin Essay Prize. Death Sentence, his best-selling book about the decay of public language won the Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year. Watson's Dictionary Of Weasel Words was also a bestseller. American Journeys won the Age Non-Fiction and Book of the Year Awards. It also won the inaugural Indie Award for Non-Fiction and the Walkley Award for Non-Fiction.
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I thought it would be a breeze to write about ten of my favourite Australian books for Australia Day, but each time I have thought about bringing my fingers to the keyboard, I change the books I want to include. One solution is to restrict myself to fiction only. Of course this means I won’t be able to mention Recollections of a Bleeding Heart by Don Watson (but this would be perfect to get...
AMERICAN JOURNEYS by Don Watson and WANTING by Richard Flanagan have been shortlisted for the 2008 award and SUMMERTIME by J.M Coetzee and RANSOM by David Malouf have been shortlisted for the 2009 award. Winners will be announced 1 September. Read the first chapter of AMERICAN JOURNEY and RANSOM.
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Books by Don Watson
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Recollections Of A Bleeding Heart 10th Anniversary Edition
by Don WatsonAnniversary edition of Don Watson's brilliant, award-winning and best-selling biography of Paul Keating with new content.
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Recollections Of A Bleeding Heart
by Don WatsonDon Watson's brilliant, award-winning and best-selling biography of Paul Keating now in paperback.
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Bendable Learnings: The Wisdom of Modern Management
by Don WatsonNEW customer-focused edition with extra strategic alignment. More key challenges for readers going forward.
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Bendable Learnings: The Wisdom Of Modern Management
by Don WatsonMoving forward from DEATH SENTENCE and WEASEL WORDS with an enhanced world class third volume in this series - a benchmark in terms of funny word books.
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Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders On The Frontier Of Aust
by Don WatsonWith a new introduction from Inga Clendinnen.
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American Journeys
by Don WatsonAustralia’s bestselling author returns with a superb book about his journeys around America. Featured as one of Newsweek’s 50 ‘What to Read Now and Why’ titles.
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Watson's Dictionary Of Weasel Words
by Don WatsonThe brilliant and bestselling companion volume to the Book of 2003: DEATH SENTENCE.
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Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language
by Don WatsonPart diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia’s public language, Don Watson’s DEATH SENTENCE is scathing, funny and brilliant.
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Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia
by Don WatsonScottish Highlanders on the frontier of Australia
