Hugh Lunn

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 big for him, tucked its handle under his armpit and, with a determination and enthusiasm born of boredom, began to bang the ball against a board in his back garden, using...

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...