![]() Anybody who has the subtitles on for Kath & Kim will get the joke.' Telegraph '.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. Just off the boat from Italy, Nino Culotta arrives in Sydney. ![]()
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