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...
Coetzee, Flanagan, Malouf & Watson shortlisted for WA Premier's Literary Award
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Books by Don Watson
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Recollections Of A Bleeding Heart 10th Anniversary Edition
by Don WatsonPublished: 01/09/2011
Anniversary 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 WatsonPublished: 01/04/2011
Don 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 WatsonPublished: 01/12/2010
NEW 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 WatsonPublished: 01/10/2009
Moving 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 WatsonPublished: 01/04/2009
With a new introduction from Inga Clendinnen.
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American Journeys
by Don WatsonPublished: 02/03/2009
Australia’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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Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language
by Don WatsonPublished: 01/11/2004
Part 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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Watson's Dictionary Of Weasel Words
by Don WatsonPublished: 01/11/2004
The brilliant companion volume to the Book of 2003: DEATH SENTENCE.
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Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia
by Don WatsonPublished: 26/09/1997
Scottish Highlanders on the frontier of Australia
