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Nevil Shute Norway had parallel careers as an aircraft engineer and, under the abbreviated name Nevil Shute, as a best-selling author. He wa...
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A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute, Hardback (ISBN: 9781509834815) Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library series
En by som Alice av engelske Nevil Shute er min bok for november i Elidas 1001-bøkers lesesirkel. Kategorien jeg skulle finne bok til var «bok med et navn i tittelen». Alice er jo et jen…
The mysterious death of a young woman on an Australian farm reveals a heartrending story of doomed wartime romance.
I've read A Town Like Alice by this author twice. I always intended to read more of his work. I found this on sale for Kindle in 2021 and bought it. It was just the "right" moment to read it--I had no idea I'd read it the same week I'd read another book set in…
Nevil Shute - In The Wet
No Highway (1948) is a short book about people who are doing theoretical research into aeroplanes for the British government in the late forties and who discover that there’s a potential problem with a plane that’s recently gone into service. It’s a story about science, and engineering, and people who take both seriously, and that makes […]
Nevil Shute: An old captivity. Pan Books 1969 (4th printing). Cover art by Hans Helweg.
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Nevil Shute Norway (17 Jan. 1899–12 Jan. 1960) was a popular British-Australian novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. He used his full name in his engineering career, and 'Nevil Shute' as his pen name, in order to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels. On the Beach (1957), Shute's best-known novel, is set in Melbourne, whose population is awaiting death from the effects of an atomic war. Also wrote A Town Like Alice (1950).
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