Wong Chu And The Queen's Letterbox: The First Collection Of Stories

by T.A.G. Hungerford

Wong Chu is the third title in a paperback series called West Coast devoted primarily to the work of Western Australian writers whose work has appeared in journals and anthologies but who have not yet had a collection published. Each volume in the series contains the work of one writer.

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Thomas Arthur Guy Hungerford AM, popularly known as T. A. G. Hungerford, was an Australian writer, noted for his World War II novel The Ridge and the River, and his short stories that chronicle growing up in South Perth, Western Australia during the Great Depression.

Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Having just discovered the writing of T.A.G. Hungerford through the Fremantle Press reissue of Stories from Suburban Road, I was delighted when Bill from The Australian Legend lent me Wong Chu and the Queen’s Letterbox which Bill reviewed here.

Wong Chu was published in 1977 by the not-for-profit Fremantle Press in its early incarnation as the Fremantle Arts Centre Press, which grew out of a community arts program (which included amongst its luminaries, a creative writing tutor called Elizabeth Jolley). This collection was the third in a series called West Coast Writing, which was, as it says on the blurb at the back of the book:


…devoted primarily to the work of Western Australian writers whose work has been published in journals and anthologies but who have not yet had a collection published.

(Other writers in the series were Nicholas Hasluck, with a collection called Anchor, and Elizabeth Jolley with the now scarce as hen’s teeth Five Acre Virgin and other stories.)

Hungerford was widely travelled, thanks to the war and his work as a journalist, and he is equally at home describing the remote coastal towns a long way north of Perth as he is in Hong Kong.

To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2018/05/05/w...