Biography of the former Labor Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating, based on notes the author compiled during his four years as Keating's speechwriter and focusing on Keating's four years as PM (December 1991-96). Keating set Australia on a new course - towards engagement with Asia, a republic, reconciliation, a modern export-based economy and public education and training, health and social security. Includes photos and index. Book received the 2003 National Biography Award, 2002 The Courier Mail Book of the Year Award, and 2002 The Age Book of the Award and Non-Fiction Prize. Author has previously written 'Brian Fitzpatrick: A Radical Life' and 'The Story of Australia'.

Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: Paul Keating PM

Don WATSON

Random House Australia

Death Sentence

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Penguin Books Australia

American Journeys

Travel

Travel Writing

A comprehensive chronicle of the development of the Texas & Pacific Railway from the time when ox teams were used to pull the first train to meet the deadline for preserving its charter to the era of the diesel powered lightweight Eagles. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. With roster of steam locomotives for the T&P and its predecessor lines. Includes a list of the railroads that made up the T&P, a list of its Presidents, its slogans, and its named trains. Includes chronology and corporate genealogical chart. 255 pages.

Texas & Pacific Railway: "From Ox Teams to Eagles"

Steve Brown

The Boston Mills Press

A Cheyenne girl is stolen and carried far away by the hostile Crow. When opportunity presents itself, Red Leaf escapes and, accompanied by a lone wolf, begins her long journey home.

The Legend of Red Leaf

Longhorn Creek Press

The Passion of Private White

Simon Schuster Ltd

Bestselling authorWinner NSW Premier’s Literary Awards / Book of the Year Award 2015“Watson’s magnificent, celebratory, contradictory study of the Australian bush will challenge the national imagination.” —Thomas Keneally, winner of the Booker PrizeAn unputdownable journey, showcasing Watson’s trademark literary gift and sardonic wit, through the Australian landscape and character.While most Australians live in cities clinging to the coastal fringe, our sense of what an Australian is, or should be, is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by “the bush,” and how has it shaped us? Starting with his forebears’ battle to drive back nature and eke a living from the land, Don Watson explores the bush as it was and as it now is: the triumphs and the ruination, the commonplace and the bizarre, the stories we like to tell about ourselves and the national character, and those we don’t. A milestone work of memoir, travel writing, and history, The Bush takes us on a profoundly revelatory and entertaining journey through the Australian landscape and character.

Bush, The

Australia & South Pacific

Bolinda Audio

"Don Watson, one-time political speechwriter and author of the acclaimed 'Recollections of a Bleeding Heart', can take it no longer. In 'Death Sentence", he takes a blowtorch to the words - and their users - who kill joy, imagination and clarity. Scathing, funny and brilliant, 'Death Sentence' is a small look of profound weight - and timeliness." (From back cover)

DEATH SENTENCE. The Decay of Public Language.

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Vintage

Knopf/Random House

Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words, Contemporary Cliches, Cant and Management Jargon

KNOPF

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