Hugh Lunn

a journey through Australia's lost language

Words fail me

Anecdotes about and biographies of Queenslanders ; includes "A Black and White Love Story" (pp.14-21) about repeated official refusals in 1938-9 to allow a young Aboriginal woman to marry a European man by whom she had a child ; "Fred Bamboo" (pp.107-128), the story of an Aboriginal medicine-man ; and "The Protector" (pp.171-178) detailing the alleged rape of three generations of Aboriginal women by a Protector of Aboriginals in 1955.

Queenslanders

The Life and Political Adventures of Johannes Bjelke-Petersen

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.

Spies Like Us

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

Over the Top with Jim

Trent Dalton

Kate Morton

Benjamin Law

Ellen van Neerven

Simon Cleary

Nick Earls

Matthew Condon

Victoria Carless

A collection of nine short stories commissioned for the exhibition The Storytellers at Museum of Brisbane, 4 April 2020 - 24 April 2022.

Step Into the Stories of Our City

The Storytellers

A collection of older words and phrases that are no longer a part of our everyday language.

Australia's Lost Language in Words and Stories

Lost for Words

"Over the top with Jim" offers the humorous account of growing up in a working-class family in 1950s Brisbane, Australia together with a story of boyhood friendship and adventure.

Hugh Lunn

Books

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