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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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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“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
‘Sometimes scarifyingly brutal’
Brilliantly witty...a wonderfully innocent, beguiling bookRoss Fitzgerald, The Age
‘Has written truly about the Vietnam War. Even the lies are true’
" Very funny and irreverent…a classic."John Tidey, The Age
Reading The Great Fletch, I could smell the gum leaves.Michael Watt, UK and Savannah USA
Fletcher's romantic liaisons, flirtations with the rich and famous ... make for a rollicking readCraig Cook, Adelaide Advertiser
‘Powerful, sensitive and often poignant account of young adulthood in the ’60s’Peter Charlton
“An embarrassing book to read in public. I defy you to read it without laughing out loud.”Ray Martin, Channel Nine
A revealing, funny read for anyone interested in how the media worksCanberra Times
When I read your books I return to another world.Jonathan Jacks, NSW
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
Think Russell Crowe in tennis whitesNew York Tennis Magazine
‘Ranks with some of the best expository prose of recent years in this or any other country’
‘Can one really be so blessed with a Fred and Olive for a Mum and Dad?’Susan Johnson
‘Ken Fletcher was the James Bond of the tennis world. Think Russell Crowe in tennis whites’Melbourne Sunday Age
‘Without a doubt the most instructive, emotional, enlightening and ironic book on Rupert Murdoch’etceter@
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
One of the best political books produced in recent yearsDavid Evans, The News
A universal story about growing up.Ross Fitzgerald, The Australian
“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
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 triumph for Australian publishing.”Ian McNamara, ABC Radio Australia All Over
‘A marvellous ability to take us back in time to where nostalgia meets reality’
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