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Nevil Shute
After the war is over, a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards on the winds, gradually poisoning everything in its path. An American submarine captain is among the survivors left…
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Discover a classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach. Keith Stewart is an ordinary man.
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Nevil Shute’s gripping story of a Melbourne reeling in the wake of nuclear war finds a new home and a new look, as Text publishes this beloved Australian classic in…
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The mysterious death of a young woman on an Australian farm reveals a bittersweet story of doomed wartime romance amidst a family crisis. Alan Duncan returns to his family home…
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Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children…
Fred Smith,Julian Smith
Reprint. Originally published: Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1976.
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Jean Paget is a brave and intelligent English girl who meets again in Alice Springs the Australian soldier with whom she had fallen in love in Malaya during World War…
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Nevil Shute wrote this prophetic novel just before the start of the Second World War. In it he imagines the devastation that results from an aerial bomb attack on Southampton…
Returning home to his family’s Australian sheep station to take the place of his dead brother, Alan Duncan finds his homecoming marred by the suicide of his parents’ parlor maid…
Through a series of mishaps, Henry Warren, a recently divorced City financier, ends up in hospital in a Northern town ruined by the closure of its shipyard. Moved by the…
When Johnny Pascoe attempts to rescue a sick girl from the Tasmanian outback his plane crashes leaving him dangerously injured. As he waits overnight at Pascoe’s house in order to…
INCLUDES THE NOVEL PILOTAGE Stephen Morris has just called off his engagement to the girl of his dreams because he is a penniless graduate with no prospects. These two early…
Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1954.
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.
This adventure story was the author’s first published novel – a story of prison escape and smuggling. All the drama and romance of flying is found in this story of…
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…
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.
Nevil Shute wrote this prophetic novel just before the start of the Second World War. In it he describes the devastation that results from an aerial bomb attack on Southampton…
Theodore Honey is a shy, inconspicous aircraft engineer whose eccentric interests in quantum mechanics and spiritualism are frowned upon in aviation circles. But when a passenger plane crashes in unexplained…
If somewhere is ‘beyond the black stump’ it means it is in the deepest darkest wilds of the Australian outback. However, when Mollie travels to America to visit him the…
When Tom Cutter hires Constantine Shaklin as an engineer in his air freight business, he little realises the extraordinary gifts of his new recruit. As Cutter’s business grows across Asia…
During John Howard’s holiday in France, the Nazis invade and he is forced to escape back to England with seven small children. The roads become impassable and Howard ends up…
A young English woman leaves her ageing parents to visit friends living in the Australian outback. She falls in love, both with the country and with Carl, a doctor and…
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…
John Turner, a young man with a chequered past, has been told he has just one year to live. He decides to use his time in search of three very…
Young pilot Donald Ross has little in common with the Oxford don who has employed him on an expedition to the Arctic - and still less with his beautiful but…
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…
Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling novelist. This autobiography charts…
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…
In their trusty fishing boat Genevieve, armed with a flame thrower and limited ammunition, a small group of officers and men take a stand against the might of the German…
After Philip Stenning is involved in a near-fatal plane crash, he feels he owes a debt of gratitude to the man who rescued him. However, his mysterious saviour is an…
Jerry Chambers, a fresh-faced young pilot, mistakenly sinks a British submarine. He is reprimanded and sent to a remote posting to test an experimental new bomb, a dangerous mission far…
Nuclear war has destroyed all life in thenorthern countries of the world. Now the deadly radiation is travelling south. In Australia, where people are still alive, Peter and Mary Holmes…
Nuclear war has destroyed all life in the northern countries of the world. Now the deadly radiation is travelling south. In Australia, where people are still alive, Peter and Mary…
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They are the last generation, the innocent victims of an accidental war, living out their last days, making do with what they have, hoping for a miracle. As the deadly…
This classic novel is a heart-rending story of human fortitude set in the jungles of Malaya during the Japanese occupation, where a group of European women and children struggles to…
Glory is short-lived for Jerry Chambers when he sinks a U-boat in the Channel, as a naval Court of Enquiry decides that he has sunk a British submarine. Shame impels…
