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Nevil Shute

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Nevil Shute Norway (1899–1960) was an English novelist, aeronautical engineer, and aircraft-company founder who wrote under the name Nevil Shute. After studying engineering at Oxford, he worked on the R100 airship and helped establish Airspeed Ltd. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, developing weapons and recording the Normandy landings. He emigrated to Australia in 1945, where he continued writing until his death in Melbourne. His best-known novels include A Town Like Alice and On the Beach; his autobiography is Slide Rule.

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Cover of A Town Like Alice

A Town Like Alice

A broad, accessible introduction to Shute's humanistic storytelling and Australian settings.

Cover of On the Beach

On the Beach

His most influential and concise work of speculative fiction.

Cover of Marazan

Marazan

The first published novel and a representative early aviation adventure.

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sequence · complete

Stephen Morris / Pilotage

A linked pair of early aviation novels following pilot Stephen Morris and continuing with Pilotage.

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  1. 1 Cover of Stephen Morris
    Stephen Morris

    Book 1 · novel · 1961

  2. 2
    Pilotage

    Book 2 · novel · 1961

Outside the series

Bibliography by category

Novels (22)
  1. Cover of Marazan
    Marazan

    novel · 1926

  2. So Disdained

    novel · 1928

  3. Cover of Lonely Road
    Lonely Road

    novel · 1932

  4. Cover of Ruined City
    Ruined City

    novel · 1938

  5. What Happened to the Corbetts

    novel · 1939

  6. Cover of An Old Captivity
    An Old Captivity

    novel · 1940

  7. Cover of Landfall
    Landfall

    novel · 1940

  8. Cover of Pied Piper
    Pied Piper

    novel · 1942

  9. Cover of Pastoral
    Pastoral

    novel · 1944

  10. Cover of Most Secret
    Most Secret

    novel · 1945

  11. Cover of The Chequer Board
    The Chequer Board

    novel · 1947

  12. The Seafarers

    novella · 2002

  13. Cover of No Highway
    No Highway

    novel · 1948

  14. Cover of A Town Like Alice
    A Town Like Alice

    novel · 1950

  15. Cover of Round the Bend
    Round the Bend

    novel · 1951

  16. Cover of The Far Country
    The Far Country

    novel · 1952

  17. Cover of In the Wet
    In the Wet

    novel · 1953

  18. Cover of Requiem for a Wren
    Requiem for a Wren

    novel · 1955

  19. Cover of Beyond the Black Stump
    Beyond the Black Stump

    novel · 1956

  20. Cover of On the Beach
    On the Beach

    novel · 1957

  21. Cover of The Rainbow and the Rose
    The Rainbow and the Rose

    novel · 1958

  22. Cover of Trustee from the Toolroom
    Trustee from the Toolroom

    novel · 1960

Nonfiction (1)
  1. Cover of Slide Rule: The Autobiography of an Engineer
    Slide Rule: The Autobiography of an Engineer

    memoir · 1954

Plays (1)
  1. Cover of Vinland the Good
    Vinland the Good

    screenplay · 1946