Nevil Shute Books
Nevil Shute Norway, writing as Nevil Shute, was a popular British novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. He pursued his writing as a means to share his ideas and thoughts with a wider audience. His works are often characterized by smooth storytelling and a deep understanding of human psychology. He spent the final decade of his life in Australia, continuing his creative endeavors.
Pied Piper
- 253 pages
- 9 hours of reading
From the author of A Town Like Alice, On the Beach, In the Wet, A Far Country and Trustee From the Board Room, Pied Piper is the story of one mans' rescue of seven abandoned children during the Nazi invasion of France in the summer of 1940.
Reissue of a wartime love story first published in 1944. By the author of Australian classics such as 'On the Beach' and 'A Town Like Alice'.
Intriguing saga of romance and treason set amongst the airmen defending English skies. The TSunday Times' was impressed by the realism of Shute's work when this book was first published in 1928.
Reader's Digest Condensed BooksVolume 1: 1959Series volume 36Reader's Digest authorized condensed edition of: The Admen by Shepherd Meade, The Rainbow and the Rose by Nevil Shute, Mrs. 'arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico, The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick, Woman of Straw by Elizabeth Coatsworth.
Requiem for a Wren
- 253 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Requiem for a Wren (U.S. title The Breaking Wave ) is one of Nevil Shute's most poignant and psychologically suspenseful novels, set in the years just after World War II. Sidelined by a wartime injury, fighter pilot Alan Duncan reluctantly returns to his parents' remote sheep station in Australia to take the place of his brother Bill, who died a hero in the war. But his homecoming is marred by the suicide of his parents' parlormaid, of whom they were very fond. Alan soon realizes that the dead young woman is not the person she pretended to be. Upon discovering that she had served in the Royal Navy and participated along with his brother in the secret build-up to the Normandy invasion, Alan sets out to piece together the tragic events and the lonely burden of guilt that unravelled one woman's life. In the process of finding the answer to the mystery, he realizes how much he had in common with this woman he never knew and how a war can go on killing people long after it's all over.
Trustee from the Toolroom
- 314 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Reissue of novel, first published in 1960, about the search for a lost inheritance on an uninhabited island in the Pacific ocean. By the author of 'A Town Like Alice' and other novels.
Lonely Road
- 221 pages
- 8 hours of reading
This spy thriller finds Malcolm Stevenson, a wealthy, middle-aged shipbuilder, embroiled in an international Communist conspiracy. Smuggling guns into England, he gets caught up in politics and alien ideologies. In time he becomes more concerned with his lone quest for the truth
A Town Like Alice
- 350 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Jean Paget is a brave and intelligent English girl who meets again in Alice Springs the Australian soldier with whom she had fallen in love in Malaya during World War II. The novel was first published in 1952.
