This week online magazine Grey Matters published my feature article about the great gift of living a long time. If you want to read it, click on this link.
http://greymatters.net.au/hugh-lunn-missing-the-man-on-the-moon/…
This week online magazine Grey Matters published my feature article about the great gift of living a long time. If you want to read it, click on this link.
http://greymatters.net.au/hugh-lunn-missing-the-man-on-the-moon/…
The Weekend Australian on 21-22 April, 2018, published Hughie’s story about a remarkable woman. It is titled “On Ho Chi Minh’s trail with Madame Sipiere”. The story attracted much reaction, including this comment: “Christine’s humanity and strength of character shine like a beacon throughout the story”.…
On 31 January 2018, The Australian newspaper published Hugh’s story marking the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam. Google The Day the War Was Lost to read the published story.
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This speech was delivered in unusual circumstances as rain leaked from the ceiling into the classy Patterson Room at Suncorp Stadium that Saturday morning. A gigantic storm had struck Brisbane that morning. It was so huge and sudden that Police called on motorists to stay home; cars were washed away; and even the Eagle Farm races had to be cancelled
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It is 50 years since Hugh was in the middle of the Vietnam War. While some in the book industry say “books have the shelf life of yoghurt”, Hugh’s Vietnam: A Reporter’s War is now published by HarperCollins. This memoir of 1967-68 covering the Vietnam War as a Reuters war correspondent took 17 years to find a publisher — University of Queensland Press — but has never been out of print since.…
COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED. Read on. Twenty years ago the above sandstone carving by Brisbane sculptor Dr Rhyl Hinwood was erected at the University of Queensland to celebrate the successful publication of some of Hugh’s books by the University of Queensland Press (UQP).…
Hugh Lunn was made a Fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences on 4 November 2015. He was one of a small group of scientists and academics, made Academy Fellows by Governor Paul de Jersey AC at a ceremony on Wednesday night at Government House, Brisbane.…
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
‘Powerful, sensitive and often poignant account of young adulthood in the ’60s’Peter Charlton
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
Reading The Great Fletch, I could smell the gum leaves.Michael Watt, UK and Savannah USA
‘Ken Fletcher was the James Bond of the tennis world. Think Russell Crowe in tennis whites’Melbourne Sunday Age
A glittering gem of a memoir.Robert Macklin, Canberra Times
‘Without a doubt the most instructive, emotional, enlightening and ironic book on Rupert Murdoch’etceter@
Fletcher's romantic liaisons, flirtations with the rich and famous ... make for a rollicking readCraig Cook, Adelaide Advertiser
" Very funny and irreverent…a classic."John Tidey, The Age
Think Russell Crowe in tennis whitesNew York Tennis Magazine
‘Has written truly about the Vietnam War. Even the lies are true’
“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’
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
A revealing, funny read for anyone interested in how the media worksCanberra Times
One of the best political books produced in recent yearsDavid Evans, The News
“A triumph for Australian publishing.”Ian McNamara, ABC Radio Australia All Over
“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
‘Sometimes scarifyingly brutal’
‘Ranks with some of the best expository prose of recent years in this or any other country’
When I read your books I return to another world.Jonathan Jacks, NSW
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 real page turner that fills in the gaps between history and what the media portraysJim Dobbin
A universal story about growing up.Ross Fitzgerald, The Australian
‘Can one really be so blessed with a Fred and Olive for a Mum and Dad?’Susan Johnson
“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
Brilliantly witty...a wonderfully innocent, beguiling bookRoss Fitzgerald, The Age
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