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1 1 y separately published work icon No Kava for Johnny John O'Grady , London : Nicholas Kaye , 1961 Z283735 1961 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Venice, Vicenza and Verona Campbell Dixon , London : Nicholas Kaye , 1959 Z812515 1959 single work prose travel
1 37 y separately published work icon They're a Weird Mob Nino Culotta , London : Nicholas Kaye , 1958 Z54863 1957 single work novel humour (taught in 2 units)

'Who the hell’s Nino Culotta. That’s what you asked yourself when you first picked up this book, wasn’t it? Well I’m Nino Culotta. My father baptised me Giovanni—John—well Giovannino is like Johnny, and Nino is an easier way of saying it. Or a lazier way, if you like.

'Just off the boat from Italy—the north—Nino Culotta arrives in Sydney. He thought he spoke English but he’s never heard anything like the language these Australians are speaking.

'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.' (Publication summary : Text Classics)
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