Nevil Shute Books

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 (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.

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.

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

One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is an abridged version of Nevil Shute's novel of the courage of a young Englishwoman in World War II. Like the film, this book concentrates mainly on the Malayan episodes.

The titles in this series are mainly new editions of titles in the Longman Simplified English Series. They are suitable for students at upper intermediate level, including those preparing for the Cambridge First Certificate. There is exercise material at the back of each book.

Reissue of the author's first novel, originally published in 1926. A story of intrigue involving an escaped convict and a World War I pilot.

Stanton Laird, a young American geologist with a secret, comes to the Australian outback to search for oil. There he meets an unconventional farming family and falls in love with their Mollie Regan. However cultural differences between Stanton's and Mollie's worlds force the two lovers to make difficult decisions.

Reissue of a war novel by Nevil Shute, famous for 'A Town Like Alice' and others works. The story deals with three officers' use of a secret weapon in their daring attack on German ships off the Brittany coast. First published in 1945.

Theodore Honey is a scientist with an interest in the paranormal and a job testing metal fatigue in aircraft. When a new transatlantic plane, the Reindeer, is found to have crashed in Labrador, Theodore believes he knows why. The scientist is sent to the scene of the crash. En route to Canada Theodore learns he is flying in a Reindeer and is in danger.

Description of Australia and some insights into Australian thought.

After learning that the head injury he suffered during World War II is worsening and fatal, John Turner decides to spend part of his remaining months of life tracking down the three men who shared his hospital ward to learn how their lives have turned out.

Ondanks de spanningen en gevaren in oorlogstijd weten een Engelse oorlogsvlieger en een officier van het vrouwelijk hulpkorps in Engeland de rijkdom van het leven, die zowel gelegen is in kleine vreugden als in groot geluk, te vinden en te behouden.

Najbardziej niepokojąca wizja świata, który umiera w następstwie wojny atomowej. The New York Times NAJSŁYNNIEJSZA POWIEŚĆ O SKUTKACH GLOBALNEJ WOJNY NUKLEARNEJ. Rok po wojnie atomowej, która zniszczyła północną półkulę, w Australii chroni się amerykański atomowy okręt podwodny. Jego kapitan Dwight Towers podobnie jak mieszkańcy antypodów usiłuje wieść normalne życie. W tym świecie wszystko na pozór toczy się wciąż zwykłym rytmem: ludzie pracują, bawią się, marzą i kochają. I próbują zachować nadzieję. Ostatni brzeg to klasyka literatury, wciąż aktualne, poruszające studium ludzkich zachowań w obliczu nieuchronnego końca. Szokujący pomysł i wstrząsająco błyskotliwa wyobraźnia, z jaką został on opisany. - San Francisco Chronicle

Psychologický příběh líčí poslední rok života průměrného Angličana, který umírá na následky zranění z války. Hrdina v okamžiku, kdy pochopí prognózu svého onemocnění, vzpomíná za jakých okolností byl zraněn a vzpomene si také na své tři spolupacienty, kteří stejně jako on přežili havárii letadla. Rozhodne se je v čase, který mu zbývá, vyhledat a přesvědčit se, jak se utvářel jejich osud a v případě potřeby jim pomoci. Vydává se na cesty, dopátrá se životních příběhů všech tří mužů a s uspokojením zjistí, že každý našel v životě své místo. Sám poznává, že celý svůj život nežil tak harmonicky, jako tento poslední rok a smířeně přijímá svůj úděl.

Román úspěšného anglického autora vypráví příběh australské dívky, která se zamiluje do amerického geologa, odjede s ním do Spojených států, když však za pobytu u jeho rodičů pozná mravní otrlost a pokrytectví americké buržoazie, opouští svého snoubence a vrací se raději k primitivnímu životu australské farmářské rodiny. Přel., doslov a vysvětl. napsala Jarmila Emmerová. Verše přel. František Vrba.