J. K. Lunis

J. K. Lunis

Historical Fiction · Place · Social Change

Places change. People live the history.

J. K. Lunis writes historical fiction about the places we think we know—and the people who lived through the years that transformed them.

These are stories of communities, families, ambition and change, set against towns and cities becoming something new. Hotels rise, fortunes are made and lost, familiar streets disappear, outsiders arrive, and yesterday’s ordinary life quietly becomes today’s history.

In When the Coast Turned Gold, Lunis turns to the Gold Coast during the extraordinary decades in which a collection of seaside communities became one of Australia’s most recognisable destinations.

But the buildings, deals and headlines are only part of the story. At the centre are the people who watched their world change around them—and had to decide whether to change with it.

History doesn’t only happen in famous rooms. Sometimes it happens in your own street.