Nevil Shute

3 summariesHistorical Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction

Nevil Shute Norway was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name, in order to protect his engineering career from inferences by his employers (Vickers) or from fellow engineers that he was '"not a serious person" or from potentially adverse publicity in connection with his novels, which included On the Beach and A Town Like Alice.

Books by Nevil Shute

3 books available

A Town Like Alice
Nevil Shute
4.1 (49k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction
After a surprising inheritance, a woman goes back to postwar Malaya, hoping to find the Australian prisoner of war who showed her kindness during captivity.
On the Beach
Nevil Shute
3.9 (35k) average on GoodreadsScience Fiction
After nuclear war, humanity's last survivors in Australia hold onto routine and slim hopes as a US submarine crosses a dead ocean on a futile search for a phantom signal of life.
Pied Piper
Nevil Shute
4.2 (3k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction
During the 1940 Blitzkrieg, an elderly Englishman leads a group of war-orphaned children across France, escaping the Nazi-occupied coast.