Nevil Shute Norway, schrijvend als Nevil Shute, was een populaire Britse romanschrijver en een succesvol luchtvaartingenieur. Hij zette zijn schrijven voort als middel om zijn ideeën en gedachten te delen met een breder publiek. Zijn werken worden vaak gekenmerkt door een soepele vertelstijl en een diep begrip van de menselijke psychologie. Hij bracht het laatste decennium van zijn leven door in Australië, waar hij zijn creatieve inspanningen voortzette.
One rainy night Peter Moran is driving across the Sussex countryside. When he stops to give a lift to a bedraggled pedestrian he is amazed to discover an old wartime comrade from the Royal Flying Corps. Moran's loyalty is tested as he agrees to help his friend, even though he has acted treasonably.
When Tom Cutter hires Constantine Shaklin as an engineer in his air freight business, he little realises the extraordinary gifts of his new recruit. As Cutter's business grows across Asia, so does Shaklin's fame, until he is widely regarded as a unifying deity.
Set against the backdrop of a Nazi invasion in France, the story follows John Howard as he navigates the challenges of escaping back to England with seven small children. As the roads become impassable, Howard must lead this diverse group through the perilous French countryside, highlighting themes of courage, responsibility, and the resilience of youth in the face of danger.
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.
Through a series of mishaps, Henry Warren, a recently divorced City financier, ends up in hospital in a Northern town ruined by the closure of its shipyard. Moved by the fate of the town's inhabitants, Warren risks his fortune and reputation to save the shipyard and restore the town to its former prosperity.
Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling novelist. This autobiography charts Shute's path from childhood to his career as a gifted aeronautical engineer working at the forefront of the technological experimentation of the 1920s and 30s.
John Turner, a young man with a chequered past, has been told he has just one year to live. He decides to use his time in search of three very different men he met briefly during the war: an snobbish British pilot, a young corporal accused of murder, and a black G.I.
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.
The story follows Jerry Chambers, a young pilot who inadvertently sinks a British submarine, leading to his reassignment for a perilous mission testing a new bomb. Separated from his beloved Mona, he faces life-threatening challenges while she works tirelessly to exonerate him. Their intertwined fates raise the stakes as time runs out for Mona to prove his innocence.
The mysterious death of a young woman on an Australian farm reveals a heartrending story of doomed wartime romance Alan Duncan returns to his family home in Australia after the war and several years of study in England. After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his death on 12 January 1960.
