'.a rollicking comedy about an Italian journalist in Fifties Australia trying to get his head around the natives' vernacular. Jacinta is regarded as a commentator for her generation. Her second book, Some Girls Do: My Life as a Teenager is an anthology of female authors writing the true story of their adolescence. Her first book, Good Man Hunting, a memoir about looking for love, earned her the accolade 'Australia's answer to Carrie Bradshaw'. Jacinta Tynan is an author, columnist for Sunday Life, and news presenter on Sky News. In 1959 he published his famous comic poem 'The Integrated Adjective', better known as 'Tumba Bloody Rumba' in the Bulletin.

It remains one of the most successful titles in Australian publishing history. He wrote for most of his adult life, but did not publish a book until he dreamed up They're a Weird Mob to win a bet.

John O'Grady (Nino Culotta) was born in Waverley on 9 October 1907. They're a Weird Mob is an hilarious snapshot of the immigrant experience in Menzies-era Australia, by a writer with a brilliant ear for the Australian way with words. He thought he spoke English but he's never heard anything like the language these Australians are speaking. In the following book, Gone Gougin', only Nino, Joe and Dennis (now married) appear, and their wives are only briefly mentioned.Just off the boat from Italy, Nino Culotta arrives in Sydney. They appear onwards from chapter 11, and Dennis gets engaged. The novel Gone Fishin' is the only novel not to feature the main characters from the first two books, Joe, Edie and Dennis as primary characters. Gone Gougin' takes place in 1975, 10 years after Gone Fishin', in which Nino's two children (Young Nino and Maria) are now adults.

The book has two sequels, Gone Fishin', and Gone Gougin' which feature largely the same cast of characters. They arrive at the Cullota family villa, and Nino's father, a crusty patriarch, is only concerned that Nino and Kay have not been 'properly' married by an Italian priest.īy the time they return to Sydney, Joe and Dennis, despite their working-class 'Ocker' background, have acquired a veneer of European sophistication, preferring wine to beer and unwilling even to get drunk. They travel by aeroplane and cargo ship and buy a cheap car in Germany to drive to Italy. Nino decides to travel back to Italy to see his parents, and takes not only Kay, but his mates Joe and Dennis, who have never left Sydney. Now, several years later, he is a builder, and married to Kay, with a daughter Maria and son Nino junior. Giovanni 'Nino' Culotta is an Italian immigrant, who came to Australia as a journalist, but became a brickie's labourer. It is a sequel to the even more popular They're a Weird Mob. Cop this Lot (1960) is a popular Australian comic novel written by John O'Grady under the pen name 'Nino Culotta', the name of the main character of the book.

They're a Weird Mob by Nino Culotta