Hugh on being Australian

A revealing, funny read for anyone interested in how the media works

‘Can one really be so blessed with a Fred and Olive for a Mum and Dad?’

‘Has written truly about the Vietnam War. Even the lies are true’

Fletcher's romantic liaisons, flirtations with the rich and famous ... make for a rollicking read

A universal story about growing up.

Brilliantly witty...a wonderfully innocent, beguiling book

“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.”

A glittering gem of a memoir.

‘Sometimes scarifyingly brutal’

“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.”

When I read your books I return to another world.

Think Russell Crowe in tennis whites

" Very funny and irreverent…a classic."

‘Powerful, sensitive and often poignant account of young adulthood in the ’60s’

A beautiful evocation of childhood. Don’t miss reading Over the Top with Jim. It’s one of the funniest most moving autobiographies around.

‘Ranks with some of the best expository prose of recent years in this or any other country’

“An embarrassing book to read in public. I defy you to read it without laughing out loud.”

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.

Reading The Great Fletch, I could smell the gum leaves.

“A triumph for Australian publishing.”

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.

‘Without a doubt the most instructive, emotional, enlightening and ironic book on Rupert Murdoch’

One of the best political books produced in recent years

‘Ken Fletcher was the James Bond of the tennis world. Think Russell Crowe in tennis whites’

‘A marvellous ability to take us back in time to where nostalgia meets reality’