Before The West Wing, there was Don Watson.
In exquisite prose, and utilising the walk-and-talk style made popular by Aaron Sorkin, Don Watson details for us where the Prime Minister's Office sits and how it functions within Parliament House, the Big House on the Hill.
From Watson's seminal memoir of life in politics Recollections of a Bleeding Heart and featuring a bonus free chapter from his bestselling Death Sentence: The decay of public language.
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 2003.
Watson's Dictionary of Weason Words, another best-seller, was published in 2004. His most recent book American Journeys won the Age Non-Fiction and Book of the Year Awards in 2008. It also won the inaugural Indie Award for Non-Fiction and the Walkley Award for Non-Fiction.
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