“Hugh has provided us with a large number of candid insights into his formative years, even some scarifyingly brutal insights. I’m impressed by the number of occasions when the notion of impure thoughts is mentioned… It’s an affectionate, slightly wistful, and embarrassingly accurate account of the way I remember growing up.”

“Working for Rupert is the only book where I had tears running down my face from laughing… and from crying.”

“Thank you for showing me in my youth that I’m not the only misunderstood child to whom unfortunate things happen, or the only awkward teenager… your books helped me as an adult in a whole new way… I was able to see the good in my parents and to cherish the good memories… there were lots of them, I had just forgotten. I cannot wait to share them with my kids. You’ve taught me that our best ally in life is a good sense of humour.” 

“All I can say is, read Hughie’s book”

‘An embarrassing book to read in public. I defy you to read it without laughing
out loud.’

“Hugh Lunn’s Over the Top with Jim was phenomenal in terms of its breadth of appeal. I think it opened up readers who’d never read a book since schooldays, a bit like A.B. Facey’s A Fortunate Life and Clive James’ Unreliable Memoirs.”

‘Brilliantly witty … deftly written. This is a wonderful, and wonderfully innocent, beguiling book. Do yourself a favour. Devour Head Over Heels.’

‘The best sporting biography you will ever read … brilliantly and simply
written … as moving as it is informative.’

‘A valuable bit of Australian history because it is unique in that it is not yet another of the “bewdy bottler, strewth” genre, but more an accurate reflection of how we spoke…Lunn cleverly intersperses his breezy, friendly discourses with 15 episodes of a radio serial. Lunn has done a great and entertaining job of covering just about every aspect of life in the suburban ‘50s.’

‘Hugh Lunn’s description of his term as a war correspondent in Vietnam,
culminating in the Tet offensive of 1968 and the deaths of three fellow
journalists, makes a moving story, well written, genuine and convincing.
The difficulties and frustrations of journalists trying to interpret for readers
in countries far distant from the battlefields are recounted calmly, without
dramatics. The fantasies fed out daily as fact at the official American army news
briefings are described with humour and quiet despair. Hugh Lunn’s writing
in Vietnam: A Reporter’s War ranks with some of the best expository prose of
recent years in this or any other country.’

‘It’s a knockout.’

‘It was this book, and Bowden’s One Crowded Hour, that first got me thinking
about being a war correspondent. Years later, I’m now covering conflict …’