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Jerry Lewis, Pat Boone, Dame Vera Lynn … and Hugh Lunn - November 29, 2020 - 0 comments
The RAT Theory - September 29, 2020 - 0 comments
The Story Tellers at the Museum of Brisbane arrived 17 July 2020 - July 21, 2020 - 0 comments
Still in print - July 12, 2020 - 0 comments
10 July 2020 - July 9, 2020 - 0 comments
All of the info in one place - November 20, 2019 - 0 comments
To buy tickets to the State of Origin Musical - October 2, 2019 - 0 comments
Musical opens off-Broadway this November 2019 - September 8, 2019 - 0 comments
Most popular story - September 8, 2019 - 0 comments
Phillip Adams talks to Hugh Lunn about West Papua September 2019 - September 8, 2019 - 0 comments
Hugh Riminton and Hugh Lunn September 2019 - September 8, 2019 - 0 comments
August 2019 Postscript to The Great Fletch - August 20, 2019 - 0 comments
August 2019 - August 20, 2019 - 0 comments
The other side of the Moon landing - July 16, 2019 - 0 comments
Tickets to the STATE OF ORIGIN MUSICAL – BRING THEM HOME - February 26, 2019 - 0 comments
Australian Media Hall of Fame - November 23, 2018 - 0 comments
Somewhere Over the Moon - August 23, 2018 - 0 comments
The Strength of a Dainty Woman - May 13, 2018 - 0 comments
50 Years Since The Day the War Was Lost - April 3, 2018 - 0 comments
Ross Livermore Lecture – The Origin of THE Origin - July 13, 2016 - 0 comments
Never out of print 2017 - May 8, 2016 - 0 comments
Winner announced 4 April 2016 - January 26, 2016 - 0 comments
Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences - November 7, 2015 - 0 comments
Writing about real people - January 24, 2014 - 0 comments
Hugh on being Australian - January 26, 2016 - 0 comments
Spencer Howson interviews Hughie on ABC Radio about State of Origin – The Musical - April 29, 2015 - 0 comments
Reliable Memoirs - October 16, 2015 - 0 comments
The State of Origin Musical is on stage November 2019 - April 29, 2015 - 0 comments
25th anniversary of Over the Top with Jim - October 20, 2014 - 0 comments
Reuters prepares correspondent - July 6, 2014 - 0 comments

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Reviews

A revealing, funny read for anyone interested in how the media works

Canberra Times

Searingly funny account of growing up in a working-class family in 1950s Australia…holds a special place in the heart of thousands of Australians and that has made Hugh Lunn a national treasure.

Southern Highland News, Bowral

‘Has written truly about the Vietnam War. Even the lies are true’

‘Can one really be so blessed with a Fred and Olive for a Mum and Dad?’

Susan Johnson

When I read your books I return to another world.

Jonathan Jacks, NSW

A beautiful evocation of childhood. Don’t miss reading Over the Top with Jim. It’s one of the funniest most moving autobiographies around.

Rosalind Dunn, The Sun

‘Ranks with some of the best expository prose of recent years in this or any other country’

A universal story about growing up.

Ross Fitzgerald, The Australian

‘Powerful, sensitive and often poignant account of young adulthood in the ’60s’

Peter Charlton

Fletcher's romantic liaisons, flirtations with the rich and famous ... make for a rollicking read

Craig Cook, Adelaide Advertiser

Brilliantly witty...a wonderfully innocent, beguiling book

Ross Fitzgerald, The Age

‘Sometimes scarifyingly brutal’

“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.”

John Dickie, Australia’s Chief Censor, 1989

A glittering gem of a memoir.

Robert Macklin, Canberra Times

“A triumph for Australian publishing.”

Ian McNamara, ABC Radio Australia All Over

One of the best political books produced in recent years

David Evans, The News

Reading The Great Fletch, I could smell the gum leaves.

Michael Watt, UK and Savannah USA

" Very funny and irreverent…a classic."

John Tidey, The Age

‘Ken Fletcher was the James Bond of the tennis world. Think Russell Crowe in tennis whites’

Melbourne Sunday Age

Among the dozens of books written on the most influential Australian in history, at least a couple of biographies are instructive. That of Neil Chenoweth and William Shawcross. But without a doubt the most instructive, emotional, enlightening, and ironic is the Australian journalist Hugh Lunn’s "Working for Rupert"

Washington correspondent Ignacio Cruz Herrere

Think Russell Crowe in tennis whites

New York Tennis Magazine

‘Without a doubt the most instructive, emotional, enlightening and ironic book on Rupert Murdoch’

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A real page turner that fills in the gaps between history and what the media portrays

Jim Dobbin

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

Ray Martin, Channel Nine

‘A marvellous ability to take us back in time to where nostalgia meets reality’

Hugh Lunn writes of his Brisbane suburban childhood with great feeling and affection. It’s a book that had me roaring with laughter…a warm, witty and amusing remembrance.

Des Partridge, The Courier-Mail

“A wonderful, wonderful read. It takes pride of place in my house. I’m a very proud Australian and the things that that book covered, it was me. And I’m sure a lot of people saw themselves in all the things described. It was all very, very true.”

Wayne Roberts, on Brisbane radio