Nevil Shute

"A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an inevitable end as radiation poisoning moves toward Australia from the North." --

Adventure on the high seas and in the air. Shute's last novel, about the recovery of a lost legacy of diamonds from a wrecked sailboat. Set in Britain, the Pacific Islands and the US Northwest.

Homecoming of RAF soldier is saddened by death of the Wren sweetheart of his brother, killed in action.

Love story of an English bomber pilot and a pretty W.A.A.F. officer during the World War.

Aviator contracts to take an Oxford Don to Greenland, and there to discover the truth of whether the Norwegians were the first settlers in Greenland.

Stephen Morris and Pilotage are two short novels by Nevil Shute; the first novels he wrote after writing poetry and short stories. They are set in the budding (but nascent) post-war aviation industry in Britain, and also on yachts (Pilotage).

"A rich middle-aged man finds his lonely life turned upside down when he falls in love with a pretty dance hostess and becomes involved in exposing a conspiracy to sabotage the British general election. But his dogged pusuit of the criminals will throw his life, and the lives of those he cares about, into grave danger"--Publisher's description.

Set against the devastation that was France after Dunkirk, this is the story of a strange journey. The characters are a seventy-year-old Englishman, a young and beautiful French girl, and a group of children of various nationalities. When John Howard decides to end his holiday in the Jura Mountains, knowing nothing about the crumbling of the western front, he agrees to escort two young English children across France and home to England. The children...

After sustaining a head injury in an air crash, John Turner is told he has only a year to live. He decides to spend that time making the journey to Rangoon, Burma, in a flying boat to rescue a friend who has gone native.