Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences

‘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.

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

‘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.”

“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.”

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

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

A universal story about growing up.

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

‘Sometimes scarifyingly brutal’

When I read your books I return to another world.

A glittering gem of a memoir.

Think Russell Crowe in tennis whites

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.

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

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

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

“A triumph for Australian publishing.”

One of the best political books produced in recent years

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.

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

Brilliantly witty...a wonderfully innocent, beguiling book

“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.”

" Very funny and irreverent…a classic."