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This link takes you to the story published by Grey Matters in 2019.…
This link takes you to the story published by Grey Matters in 2019.…
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Radio National journalist Hugh Riminton and Hugh Lunn talk about The Year that Made Me. Broadcast Sunday 8 September 2019.…
For all those who have read The Great Fletch here is an update on some of the amazing things that have happened since ABC Books first published that book in 2008. (It is still available print-on-demand from them – or from me on this site.…
While most people looked into the sky when humans landed on the Moon in 1969, darker events were happening in a forgotten part of our planet. Hughie wrote the following story for Grey Matters site, see link below.
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https://stateoforiginmusical.eventbrite.com.au/
On another sport…remember when Aussie tennis players made a racket for all the right reasons?
For Hughie’s story, go to www.greymatters.net.au…
Hughie Lunn was inducted into the Australian Media Hall of Fame in Melbourne on 16 November 2018.
Fletcher's romantic liaisons, flirtations with the rich and famous ... make for a rollicking readCraig Cook, Adelaide Advertiser
“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
When I read your books I return to another world.Jonathan Jacks, NSW
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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 universal story about growing up.Ross Fitzgerald, The Australian
One of the best political books produced in recent yearsDavid Evans, The News
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
A revealing, funny read for anyone interested in how the media worksCanberra Times
‘Can one really be so blessed with a Fred and Olive for a Mum and Dad?’Susan Johnson
‘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
“An embarrassing book to read in public. I defy you to read it without laughing out loud.”Ray Martin, Channel Nine
“A triumph for Australian publishing.”Ian McNamara, ABC Radio Australia All Over
‘Powerful, sensitive and often poignant account of young adulthood in the ’60s’Peter Charlton
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Brilliantly witty...a wonderfully innocent, beguiling bookRoss Fitzgerald, The Age
Reading The Great Fletch, I could smell the gum leaves.Michael Watt, UK and Savannah USA
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
Think Russell Crowe in tennis whitesNew York Tennis Magazine
‘A marvellous ability to take us back in time to where nostalgia meets reality’
A glittering gem of a memoir.Robert Macklin, Canberra Times
‘Ken Fletcher was the James Bond of the tennis world. Think Russell Crowe in tennis whites’Melbourne Sunday Age
" Very funny and irreverent…a classic."John Tidey, The Age
A real page turner that fills in the gaps between history and what the media portraysJim Dobbin
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
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