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A Town Like Alice: (Vintage Classics Shute Series) by Nevil Shute
$18.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
This title features an introduction by Eric Lomax. 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 whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that l ...Show more
Beyond the Black Stump by Nevil Shute
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
"If somewhere is beyond the black stump it means it is in the deepest darkest wilds of the Australian outback. This is the sun-baked setting for Nevil Shute s novel of a romance that is tested by the differences between two young people s home lives. Stanton Laird is sent from his small town in America ...Show more
In the Wet by Nevil Shute
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
The story is opened by its initial narrator - an Anglican priest in the Bush Brotherhood named Roger Hargreaves - who describes his ordinary circumstances in a large parish of the Australian outback in 1953. As part of his duties, he has to minister to the dying and this brings him into contact with an ...Show more
No Highway by Nevil Shute
$26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Theodore Honey is a shy, inconspicuous aircraft engineer whose eccentric interests in quantum mechanics and spiritualism are frowned upon in aviation circles. But when a passenger plane crashes in unexplained circumstances, Honey must convince his superiors that his unorthodox theories are correct befor ...Show more
On The Beach by Nevil Shute
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 sheltering in Australia, preparing with the locals for the inevitable. Despite his memories of his wife, he becomes cl ...Show more
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Fishing boats lay at anchor and they cruised around these, hailing, and examining them through the periscope. They learned nothing, save for the inference that when the end had come the people had died tidily.Set in Melbourne following a catastrophic war in the northern hemisphere, Nevil Shute's classic ...Show more
Pied Piper by Nevil Shute
$29.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Nevil Shute's classic Second World War novel is an uplifting, satisfying and moving story. John Howard is determined to brighten up his old age by taking a fishing trip to France. However, during his stay the Nazis invade and he is forced to try to escape back to England with the two small children of ...Show more
Requiem for a Wren by Nevil Shute
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
The Chequer Board by Nevil Shute
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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.
Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Keith Stewart is an ordinary man. However, one day he is called upon to undertake an extraordinary task. When his sister's boat is wrecked in the Pacific, he becomes trustee for his little niece. In order to save her from destitution he has to embark on a 2,000 mile voyage in a small yacht in inhospitab ...Show more
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