No Longer Innocent
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No Longer Innocent is a 1933 Australian travel book by Ivan Goff and E.W. Irwin. It told the story of their travels from Perth to London from 1930 to 1932.{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37837720 |title="NO LONGER INNOCENT." |newspaper=Western Mail |volume=XLVIII |issue=2,487 |location=Western Australia |date=12 October 1933 |accessdate=16 April 2024 |page=14 (Edition 2) |via=National Library of Australia}} The two men wrote articles about their travels on the way and combined it into a book.{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38509861 |title=THE INNOCENTS ABROAD. |newspaper=Western Mail |volume=XLV |issue=2,312 |location=Western Australia |date=5 June 1930 |accessdate=16 April 2024 |page=13 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33331858 |title="NO LONGER INNOCENT." |newspaper=The West Australian |volume=XLIX |issue=9,764 |location=Western Australia |date=14 October 1933 |accessdate=16 April 2024 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}
The book was well received and was published in New York. Its success helped launch Goff's career in London. Irwin returned to Western Australia.{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32852675 |title="NO LONGER INNOCENT." |newspaper=The West Australian |volume=51 |issue=15,232 |location=Western Australia |date=17 April 1935 |accessdate=16 April 2024 |page=18 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48205636 |title=NEW BOOKS |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly |volume=I |issue=30 |location=Australia, Australia |date=30 December 1933 |accessdate=16 April 2024 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article75872124 |title=W.A. Man's Romance With Star |newspaper=Mirror |volume=18 |issue=962 |location=Western Australia |date=14 December 1940 |accessdate=16 April 2024 |page=16 |via=National Library of Australia}}
The Herald reviewed it and said "one can hardly want better light entertainment."{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article243217068 |title=Schoolgirl Author of Two "Best Sellers" |newspaper=The Herald |issue=17,649 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=7 December 1933 |accessdate=16 April 2024 |page=30 |via=National Library of Australia}}
The Bulletin called it "highly diverting".{{Citation
| title=A Satchel of Books
| journal=The Bulletin
| date=8 Aug 1934
| location=Sydney, N.S.W
| publisher=John Haynes and J.F. Archibald
| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-615193241
| id=nla.obj-615193241
| access-date=16 April 2024
| via=Trove
}}
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Category:1933 non-fiction books
Category:Australian non-fiction books
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