They're a Weird Mob

They're a Weird Mob is a popular 1957 Australian comic novel written by John O'Grady under the pseudonym "Nino Culotta", the name of the main character of the book.

[3] By the time of O'Grady's death in 1981, They're A Weird Mob was in its forty-seventh impression, with sales approaching the one million mark.

In order to learn about real Australians, Nino takes a job as a brickie's labourer with a man named Joe Kennedy.

The success of the novel projected Nino Culotta to initial fame and stardom; although O'Grady was writing under a pseudonym.

There were initial requests for biographical information and author interviews, and even an invitation for Nino to appear at Melbourne's Moomba celebrations – all of which had to be rejected by O'Grady's publisher.