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