Un Paziente (Patient - Italian translation)
Published by Carbonio Editore, 2017
Books
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Romany and Tom (Paperback)
Longlisted for Samuel Johnson Prize 2014
Best Biographies and Memoirs 2014 - GUARDIAN
Readers’ Books of the Year 2014 - GUARDIAN
Best Memoirs 2014 - MAIL ON SUNDAY“Moving and evocative” Alan Johnson, Books of the Year, OBSERVER
"Neither sentimental nor savage, yet often wise, moving and entertaining within the same paragraph, Romany and Tom is a major achievement to rival any of Watt's recordings." THE GUARDIAN
"A poignant, life-affirming work." FINANCIAL TIMES
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Romany and Tom (Hardback)
My dad Tommy Watt was a working-class Glaswegian jazz musician whose 1950’s heyday took him into the glittering heart of London’s West End. My mum Romany Bain was RADA-trained Shakespearian actress, who had triplets in her first marriage before becoming a leading showbiz feature writer. Divorcees from very different backgrounds, they came together in 1957 like colliding trains.
Both a personal journey and a portrait of my parents, Romany and Tom is a story of the post-war years, ambition and stardom, family roots and secrets, life in clubs and in care homes. It is also about who we are, where we come from, and how we love and live with each other for a long time.
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Patient
The True Story of a Rare Illness
'An astonishingly assured anatomy of his ordeal, by turns terrifying, mordantly funny and intensely moving. Many people suffer the pain and indignities of intensive medical treatment; but few have written about it with quite such alarming vividness or clarity.' Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph
'Ben Watt's harrowing, candid account of his near death from one of the world's rarest diseases lives on in the mind - a fine testimonial to his fortitude, his powers as a writer and the NHS.' William Boyd, Sunday Times
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Patient (Swedish translation)
Published by Finistère, Modernista, 2006
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Paciente (Patient - Spanish translation)
1998, Mondadori
Traducido de la edición original de Viking, Londres, 1996
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Patient (US Edition)
The True Story of a Rare Illness
"Quiet elegance and ringing epiphanic lyricism … his book is a nearly flawless telling of his unexpected and drawn-out battle with an extremely rare - and nearly fatal - illness." NEW YORKER
"The reader comes away with an unforgettable understanding of the transformative nature of severe illness... few have told such a compelling life-story as skilfully as the London-born Watt." SAN FRAN CHRONICLE
"Told with great wit and without self-pity.' NEW YORK TIMES
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Patient (First Edition)
The True Story of a Rare Illness
First published in 1996 by Viking/Penguin in the UK, this is the original jacket designed by Senate Design. It was decided not to make a hardback. Instead we did what is known as a trade paperback: thick card with flaps for the first edition. Now out of print, this is the slightly dog-eared copy I carried round with me to do readings.Viking splashed out on this jacket and gave a 5-colour print process. Love the orange. The font on the front reminds me of blood in a dish. (The original paperback which came out about a year later was similar but had a blue background not silver.)