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Over the Top with Jim
In 1950s' Brisbane the Cold War is hot news, and so were the cakes at Lunns for Buns, Fred and Olive's famous Annerley Junction cake shop. Enter one Jim Egoroff: Russian agent, all-round tough guy (aged 9), and the boy Hugh Lunn (also aged 9) is destined to make his 'left-hand' man. this delightful memoir of an Australian childhood has now become a classic bestselling family favourite. 'I defy you to read it without laughing out loud' - Ray Martin 'A triumph for Australian publishing' - Ian 'Macca' McNamara
Spies Like Us
What do you do in the swinging 60s when you've got a great job as a reporter, and the car to match - a Sunbeam Alpine - but lost your love? Bestselling ABC Books author Hugh Lunn went to China on the eve of the Cultural Revolution, blundered into Red China, and then fell in love again. Armed only with Banjo Patterson ballads, and an artificial sheepskin coat, he soon learnt that life is not all cricket and cheongsams.
The Big Book of Lunn
A bind up of Hugh Lunn's two bestselling memoirs, Over the Top With Jim and Head Over Heels. One of the classic childhood memoirs complete with vividly painted characters, teachers, siblings, parents, the people who came to the Lunn family's bun shop and most of all the suspicious Russian kid with the funny name, Dmitri Egeroff (Jim), Hugh Lunn's Over the top With Jim is a laugh out loud account of a bygone Australian era. Successive generations have fallen for Hugh and Jim and their mates, as the strong sales of the book can attest. Now in a bind up with the follow up, Head Over Heels, which sees a 'grown up' Hugh tackle his career as a young journalist and navigate the reefs of romance. told with great humour and affection, these are two must-read books now available together for the first time.
Spies Like Us
Humorous account of the author's life as a journalist in Hong Kong and his journey through Red China just before the Cultural Revolution. First published 1995. This edition includes an updated preface. Author is a journalist who has won five national awards for feature writing, including three Walkley Awards. His other publications include 'Vietnam: A Reporter's War', which was the 1985 'Age' Book of the Year, and 'Over the Top with Jim'.
Over the Top with Jim
Hugh Lunn's wonderfully warm Cold War memoir has enthralled and entertained a whole generation of readers. His uniquely typical 1950s Australian family heads a east of unforgettable characters, as they wrestle love form original sin, and embark on many other thrilling over-the-top, under-the-shop adventures.
The Great Fletch
When a passing French tennis superstar gave the young Ken Fletcher his tennis racquet, he didn't know what he'd started. Ken Fletcher took the racquet, which was far too too big for him, tucked its handle under his armpit and with a determination and enthusiasm borne of boredom, began to bang the ball against a board in this back garden, using his whole body to get behind the ball.One day Kenny would thrill the crowds and dismay his opponents at Wimbledon with this forehand, which Harry Hopman would later call 'the best forehand in the world'. It helped young Ken win five doubles titles and, at age eighteen, propelled him into the world of casinos, chaffeur-driven cars, beautiful women and applauding crowds.Award-winning author Hugh Lunn has written a humorous and insightful account of the life of his childhood friend. He explores how a boy from Annesley Junction turned into a champion tennis player, and with his trademark humour and style he not only brings us the life of a sporting great, he paints us a picture of a more innocent time in Australian history.
Lost for Words
Strike a light! things are crook in tallarook! Hugh Lunn has been collecting old words and phrases that are no longer a part of our everyday language, and has brought them together in a book in a totally unique, informative and humorous way. Divided into themes (such as Mother's advice, things about the house, Argy bargy, trouble at work) words and phrases are placed into context in mini-stories that will have you chuckling and remembering a time when these sayings were a rich part of your life.
Lost for Words
A collection of older words and phrases that are no longer a part of our everyday language.
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