AustLit
Latest Issues
AbstractHistoryArchive Description
'Worse Things Happen at Sea is about families, suburbs and homes, friends, love and day to day life written by bestselling author William McInnes and award winning filmmaker, photographer and animator Sarah Watt.
'In William's first book A Man's Got to Have a Hobby he wrote about family life in the 1960s with humour, affection and honesty. Worse Things Happen at Sea does the same for family life in 2000s; written by William and Sarah in a way that many Australians can relate to and enjoy.
'This book celebrates the wonderful, messy, haphazard things in life -- bringing home babies from hospital, being a friend, a parent, son or daughter, and dog obedience classes. It's about living for twenty years in the family home, raising children there, chasing angry rabbits around the backyard, renovations that never end. It is also about understanding that sometimes you have to say goodbye; that is part of life too.
'Illustrated throughout with Sarah Watt's photographs of family life and beautiful, everyday objects.' (From the publisher's website.)
Notes
-
Cover subtitle: Tales of life, love, family and the everyday beauty in between.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
-
Keeping Local Stories Alive
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 28-29 July 2012; (p. 4-5) -
Unbowed, Book Lovers Script Their Own Awards
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 27 July 2012; (p. 7) -
Will's New Way of Life
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 4 April 2012; (p. 3) 'William McInnes is busy again, but he's doing it without his beloved partner.' (p. 3) -
McInnes-Watt Memoir Wins Indie Book Award
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 11 March 2012; (p. 8) -
Indie Gongs for Funder
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 11 March 2012; (p. 7)
-
Off the Shelf : Memoir
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 29 October 2011; (p. 30)
— Review of Worse Things Happen at Sea 2011 single work autobiography -
Pick of the Week
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12-13 November 2011; (p. 35)
— Review of Worse Things Happen at Sea 2011 single work autobiography -
Taking the Bad Along with the Good
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 December 2011; (p. 29)
— Review of Worse Things Happen at Sea 2011 single work autobiography -
When I'm Gone...
2011
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 22 October 2011; (p. 14-16) -
Filmmaker Watt Achieves Final Wish
2011
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 7 November 2011; (p. 4) -
Literary Nod for McInnes
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 26 January 2012; (p. 20) -
Book Award a Smashing Tribute : McInnes
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 11 March 2012; (p. 2) -
Indie Gongs for Funder
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 11 March 2012; (p. 7)
Awards
- 2012 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Non-Fiction Book Award
- 2012 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year
- 2012 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Book of the Year
- 2012 winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian General Non-Fiction Book of the Year
- 2012 winner Indie Awards — Nonfiction
- Melbourne - West, Melbourne, Victoria,
- 2000