Nevil Shute
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About the author
Born
Ealing, Middlesex, England, 1899
Died
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1960
Places lived
England and Australia
Forms of writing
Novels
Genres
Literary, adventure, romance, science fiction, thrillers
Writing language
English
Literature
• A Town Like Alice (1950)
• On the Beach (1957)
Novels
• A Town Like Alice (1950)
• On the Beach (1957)
British Literature
• A Town Like Alice (1950)
• On the Beach (1957)
Works published in book form
Marazan, novel, 1926
So Disdained, novel, 1928, also known as The Mysterious Aviator
Lonely Road, novel, 1932
Ruined City, novel, 1938
What Happened to the Corbetts, novel, 1938, also known as Ordeal
An Old Captivity, novel, 1940
Landfall: A Channel Story, novel, 1940
Pied Piper, novel, 1942
Vinland the Good, novel, 1946
The Chequer Board, novel, 1947
No Highway, novel, 1948
A Town Like Alice, novel, 1950
Round the bend, novel, 1951
The Far Country, novel, 1952
In the Wet, novel, 1953
Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer, memoir, 1954
Requiem for a Wren, novel, 1955, also known as The Breaking Wave
Beyond the Black Stump, novel, 19506
On the Beach, novel, 1957
The Rainbow and the Rose, novel, 1958
Trustee from the Toolroom, novel, 1960
Stephen Morris, novel, 1961, written in 1923
Pilotage, novel, 1961, written in 1923
The Seafarers, novel, 2002, written in 1946–1948 as The Seafarers and Blind Understanding
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