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Ruined City

Author: Nevil Shute
Publication Date: 19680800

Henry Warren was already a wealthy man and money was his sole interest. The he found a woman with faith in the future and a town that needed to win back its self-respect.

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Lonely Road

Author: Nevil Shute
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1968

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Requiem for a Wren

Author: Nevil Shute
Publication Date: 19710402

Alan Duncan returns to his family home in Australia after the war and several years of study in England. But his homecoming is marred by the mysterious suicide of his parents' quiet and reliable parlour-maid. A search through her belongings in search of clues leads to heartbreaking revelations about the woman's identity.

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An Old Captivity

Author: Nevil Shute
Publication Date: 19690200

A novel which has been unavailable for 4 years, about a young airman, an Oxford don and his beautiful daughter who, on an expedition to the Arctic, are transported by explorers of another age - the Norsemen and their longships of a thousand years before.

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Marazan

Author: Nevil Shute
Publication Date: 19700703

"It began in June. I was one of the pilots of the Rawdon Air Taxi Service then; as everyone knows, a civilian pilot, like a ...

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MARAZAN

Author: Nevil Shute
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1964

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The Rainbow and the Rose

Author: Nevil Shute
Publication Date: 18 September 2000

A novel about the attempt to rescue a pilot who has crashed in an inaccessible part of Tasmania.

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What Happened to the Corbetts

Author: Nevil Shute
Publication Date: 19910300

Originally published in 1939 and unavailable for over 2 years, a novel written just before the war, which prophetically describes how it would affect a town like Southampton.

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On the Beach

Author: Nevil Shute
Publication Date: 18 September 2000

Following the devastation of a nuclear world war, Europe, America and most of the northern hemisphere is annihilated. Only a few remote pockets of the earth remain habitable, and the area around Melbourne, with its small group of survivors, is one of these. The author also wrote ""No Highway"".

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Pied Piper

Author: Nevil Shute
Publication Date: 19690500

Goaded by the evacuation of Dunkirk, a retired solicitor on holiday in the Jura mountains promises to escort two English children to safety. So swift and terrible is the Germans' advance that their progress is slow, and the old man finds himself chaperon to an increasing number of waifs and strays.

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The The rainbow and the rose

Author: Nevil Shute
Publication Date: 18 September 2000

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Far Country

Author: Nevil Shute
Publication Date: 19720714

A young English woman leaves her aging parents to visit friends living in the Australian outback. She falls in love, both with the country and with Carl, a doctor and Czech refugee. Brought together through dramatic encounters and strange twists of fate, their relationship hangs in the balance when Jennifer is called back to England.

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Lonely Road

Author: Nevil Shute
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A love story between a rich R.N.V.R. officer and a professional dance hostess, set against the background of gun-running at the time of the first Communist menace. First published in 1932 and now reissued.

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Pastoral

Author: Nevil Shute
Publication Date: 19690500

During the Second World War, Peter Marshall's crew become one of the most successful bombing teams in their Oxfordshire airbase. However, when Peter falls in love with a young WAAF officer, his concentration begins to suffer and it looks as though his perfect run of missions - and his life - may be threatened.

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What Happened to the Corbetts

Author: Nevil Shute
Publication Date: 19700206

Originally published in 1939 and unavailable for over 2 years, a novel written just before the war, which prophetically describes how it would affect a town like Southampton.

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Rainbow and the Rose

Author: Nevil Shute
Publication Date: 19730810

A novel about the attempt to rescue a pilot who has crashed in an inaccessible part of Tasmania.

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Lonely Road

Author: Nevil Shute
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1963

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Beyond the Black Stump

Author: Nevil Shute
Publication Date: 19720505

Stanton Laird is sent from his small town in America to work in a remote outpost in Australia. While out there he befriends the Regan family and falls in love with the daughter Mollie. However, when Mollie travels to America to visit him the couple realise that their differences in background make their plans for a future together hard to realise.

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In the Wet

Author: Nevil Shute
Publication Date: 1 June 1969

It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his deserted shack and listens to his last words. Half-awake and half-dreaming the old man tells the story of an adventure set decades in the future, in a very different world.

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So Disdained

Author: Nevil Shute
Publication Date: 19690800

When Peter Moran picks up a man on the roadside while driving through a bitter rainy night on the South Downs, he embarks upon an adventure that will lead him into treasonous international plots, flying adventures and tests of both his bravery and his loyalty.

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Round the Bend

Author: Nevil Shute
Publication Date: 19680400

When Tom Cutter hires Constantine Shaklin as an engineer in his air freight business, he little realises the extraordinary gifts of his new recruit. Shaklin possesses a religious power which inspires everyone he meets to a new faith. As Cutter's business grows across Asia, so does Shaklin's fame, until he is widely regarded as a unifying deity.

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Landfall

Author: Nevil Shute
Publication Date: 19690600

A novel which tells a story about young men in the RAF during World War II.

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Trustee from the Tool Room

Author: Nevil Shute
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1960

Nevil Shute's new book is on a theme dear to his heart: the ordeal of an ordinary man plunged into extraordinary circumstances and emerging with his personal values unshaken. Trustee from the Tool Room is a splendid story whose sense of adventure and the power of friendship[ make it the happiest, as well as the last, of Nevil Shute's novels. The story is: a sister and brother in law sail across t...

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Chequer Board

Author: Nevil Shute
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John Turner, a young man with a checkered 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: a snobbish British pilot, a young corporal accused of murder, and a black G I accused of attempted rape.

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No Highway

Author: Nevil Shute
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Theodore Honey is a scientist with an interest in the paranormal and a job testing metal fatigue in aircraft. When a new tra...

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