Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences

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

Think Russell Crowe in tennis whites

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

“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 triumph for Australian publishing.”

A universal story about growing up.

‘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.

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

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.

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

" Very funny and irreverent…a classic."

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

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

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

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

A glittering gem of a memoir.

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.

Brilliantly witty...a wonderfully innocent, beguiling book

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?’

One of the best political books produced in recent years

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

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