“A triumph for Australian publishing.”
Ian McNamara
ABC Radio Australia All Over
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
“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
“Working for Rupert is the only book where I had tears running down my face from laughing… and from crying.”
Ipswich reader
When I read your books I return to another world.
Jonathan Jacks
NSW
“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.”
Jennifer Jenyns
A reader
The Great Fletch
“All I can say is, read Hughie’s book”
Roy Emerson
Wimbledon champion Australian tennis player who won the French doubles with Fletch.
“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.”
Publisher Rex Finch, 2015.
Latest Posts…
The Great Fletch
Brisbane’s Wimbledon great Ken Fletcher “the James Bond of the tennis world”.
“Think Russell Crowe in tennis whites” (New York TENNIS Magazine)
The Over the Top with Jim Album
1950s Aussie memorabilia, photos, and the people made famous.
On the road to Anywhere
How Hugh wrote Over the Top with Jim and the extraordinary circumstances that took it to number 1 in Australia in 1991
More over the top with Jim
AKA Fred & Olive’s Blessed Lino—the extra episodes with more 1950s childhood adventures
Words Fail Me
More Australian lost language. If you break a leg don’t come running to me!
Over the top with Jim
The Original classic 1950s Australian childhood set in Lunns-for-Buns cake shop.
Spies like us
Serialised by Macca on ABCRadio. Two young Aussies chase their dreams in Hong Kong, Macau and Red China. Who’s that in the red cheongsam and is she one of us? Spies without sunglasses, Spies like us!
Lost for Words
Australia’s lost language in words and stories. Wouldn’t that blow a hole in your nightie! Chosen as one of the “50 books you can’t put down”.
Big Book of Lunn
2 books in 1 Over the Top with Jim—childhood memoir serialised by ABCRadio and chosen as one of the “50 books you can’t put down” PLUS the sequel Head Over Heels–young love in the 1960s
Vietnam – A reporter’s war
1967-68 “Hugh Lunn has written it truly. Even the lies are true” (Mike Carlton, 2GB) “Heaven hurts fair woman for sheer spite” (Nguyen Du)
Working for Rupert
1970s & 1980s “Without a doubt the most instructive, emotional, enlightening, and ironic biography on Murdoch” (Ignacio Crux Herrera, Washington correspondent)