Hugh Lunn has won 3 Walkley Awards and The Age Book of the Year award in 1985 for Vietnam. Hugh Lunn has been a journalist for most of his working life with stints for The Courier-Mail and London’s Daily Mirror. He was a foreign correspondent in Singapore, Vietnam and Indonesia for Reuters before joining The Australian newspaper, where he worked from 1971 to 1987.
Lost for Words
More gems than a Lightning Ridge mine
More gems than a Lightning Ridge mine
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EVER THOUGHT THAT THE language used today is just plain boring? Ever wished at the right moment you could have said “he couldn’t train a choko vine over a dunny”?
Hugh Lunn is on a mission to bring rich colour back to the Australian language. By exploring the phrases of his early years, Lunn doesn’t simply bring back hundreds of funny, apt, poignant and cutting sayings, he evokes a lost world of Australia; one that anyone, whatever their age, will enjoy.
So if you want to learn how to stop playing ducks and drakes when you should be saying exactly what you mean, pick up this book and start using some of the wonderfully rich phrases that people used to take for granted.
There’s more information about the author and his books at www.hughlunn.com.au
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