Ure Smith

Introduction'Etiquette' is a French word, adopted by the English in those remote times when French was the language of diplomacy and politeness. 'Rendezvous' and 'RSVP' survive from the same snobbish social period.My dictionary defines 'etiquette' as 'The forms required by good breeding, or...

THE LAND Olaf Ruhen 'By the time a second generation grew . . . they had come to love the country . . Ernest Favenc the explorer discovered fine country in Queensland below the Gulf of Carpentaria and on over the Barkly Tableland to Darwin, but he must have carried disappointment like an...

chapter One 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 had me baptised Giovanni—John—well Giovannino is like Johnny, and Nino is an easier way of saying it. Or a lazier way, if you like. The...