A Single Tree assembles the raw material underpinning Don Watson’s award-winning The Bush. These diverse and haunting voices span the four centuries since Europeans first set eyes on the continent.
Brisbane Writers Festival 2017
In Conversation
A Single Tree
Don Watson
Don Watson’s bestselling titles include Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: Paul Keating Prime Minister, which 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, Death Sentence, which won the Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year, Watson’s Dictionary of Weasel Words, and American Journeys, which won The Age Book of the Year and Non-Fiction Book of the Year, the inaugural Indie Award for Non-Fiction and the Walkley Non-Fiction Award. In 2010 Don was awarded the Phillip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Australian Literature.
Phil Brown
Phil Brown is Arts Editor at The Courier-Mail and is also an author and poet. His humorous memoirs Travels With My Angst and Any Guru Will Do were published by UQP.
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