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A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Category: Fiction
"Probably more people have shed tears over the last page of A Town Like Alice than about any other novel in the English language... remarkable." --John Ezard, Guardian WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ERIC LOMAX Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When s ...Show more
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A Town Like Alice The Legacy by Nevil Shute Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that leads to ...Show more
A Town Like Alice: (Vintage Classics Shute Series) by Nevil Shute
Category: Classics
This title features an introduction by Eric Lomax. Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that l ...Show more
An Old Captivity by Nevil Shute
Category: Classics
Young pilot Donald Ross has little in common with the Oxford don who has employed him on an expedition to the Arctic - and still less with his beautiful but stubborn daughter, Alix. But once the three of them reach the treacherous shores of Greenland their destinies are inextricably bound by the events ...Show more
Beyond the Black Stump by Nevil Shute
Category: Fiction
"If somewhere is beyond the black stump it means it is in the deepest darkest wilds of the Australian outback. This is the sun-baked setting for Nevil Shute s novel of a romance that is tested by the differences between two young people s home lives. Stanton Laird is sent from his small town in America ...Show more
In the Wet by Nevil Shute
Category: Classics
The story is opened by its initial narrator - an Anglican priest in the Bush Brotherhood named Roger Hargreaves - who describes his ordinary circumstances in a large parish of the Australian outback in 1953. As part of his duties, he has to minister to the dying and this brings him into contact with an ...Show more
Landfall by Nevil Shute
Category: Fiction
Landfallby Nevil ShuteA romantic World War II adventure about the strength of true love and how it can overcome any obstacle. A British air reconnaissance officer falls for a pub waitress, but finds his lift in chaos when he accidentally bombs a British submarine, mistaking it for a German U-boat. What ...Show more
Marazan by Nevil Shute
Category: Fiction
After Philip Stenning is involved in a near-fatal plane crash, he feels he owes a debt of gratitude to the man who rescued him. However, his mysterious savior is an escaped convict, and his determination to help him leads Stenning into a tense and dramatic adventure of intrigue, drug-running and murder. ...Show more
Most Secret by Nevil Shute
Category: Classics
In their trusty fishing boat Genevieve, armed with only a flame thrower and limited ammunition, a small group of officers and men take a stand against the might of the German army after the fall of France in World War II.
No Highway by Nevil Shute
Category: Classics
Theodore Honey is a shy, inconspicuous aircraft engineer whose eccentric interests in quantum mechanics and spiritualism are frowned upon in aviation circles. But when a passenger plane crashes in unexplained circumstances, Honey must convince his superiors that his unorthodox theories are correct befor ...Show more
On The Beach by Nevil Shute
Category: Classics
After the war is over, a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards on the winds, gradually poisoning everything in its path. An American submarine captain is among the survivors left sheltering in Australia, preparing with the locals for the inevitable. Despite his memories of his wife, he becomes cl ...Show more
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
Category: Classics
Fishing boats lay at anchor and they cruised around these, hailing, and examining them through the periscope. They learned nothing, save for the inference that when the end had come the people had died tidily.Set in Melbourne following a catastrophic war in the northern hemisphere, Nevil Shute's classic ...Show more