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Nevil Shute

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British writer and engineer (1899–1960)

Born 1899
Died 1960

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  • Cover of: On The Beach
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    Cover of edition onbeach0000shut_d4t5 Cover of edition onbeach0000shut_x2i8 Cover of edition onbeach00shut Cover of edition onbeach0000shut_c3a8 Cover of edition onbeachshut00shut Cover of edition bwb_P9-ATH-265 Cover of edition onbeach0000nevi_l0m8 Cover of edition onbeach0000shut Cover of edition isbn_9780307473998 First published in 1957 — 121 editions
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  • Cover of: The legacy
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    Cover of edition townlikealice0000shut Cover of edition townlikealice0000shut_k7w7 Cover of edition townlikealice00shut Cover of edition townlikealice0000shut_g6t5 First published in 1950 — 112 editions
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  • Cover of: No highway
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    Cover of edition nohighway0000shut_p3d5 Cover of edition nohighway0000shut_h9v2 Cover of edition nohighway0000shut_u4u0 First published in 1948 — 60 editions
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  • Cover of: The Far country, etc (Pan books. no. X624.)
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    Cover of edition farcountry0000nevi_a6n2 Cover of edition farcountry00shut_0 Cover of edition farcountry00shut Cover of edition farcountry0000nevi_b2m8 First published in 1952 — 56 editions
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  • Cover of: Pastoral
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    Cover of edition pastoral00shut Cover of edition pastoral0000shut_b0p8 Cover of edition pastoral0000shut First published in 1944 — 53 editions
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  • Cover of: The Chequer Board. Heron Complete Works of Nevil Shute
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    Cover of edition chequerboard0000nevi_q6b9 Cover of edition chequerboard00shut Cover of edition chequerboard00shut_1 Cover of edition chequerboard00shut_0 Cover of edition chequerboard0000shut First published in 1947 — 51 editions
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  • Cover of: Ruined city
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    Cover of edition ruinedcityandlan0000shut Cover of edition ruinedcity0000nevi_z3h0 Cover of edition ruinedcity0000shut_s4i6 First published in 1938 — 49 editions
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  • Cover of: In the wet
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    Cover of edition inwet00shut First published in 1953 — 49 editions
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  • Cover of: Round the bend
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    Cover of edition roundbend0000shut Cover of edition roundbend0000shut_j3f5 Cover of edition roundbend00shut First published in 1951 — 48 editions
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  • Cover of: Trustee from the toolroom
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    Cover of edition bwb_KR-522-359 Cover of edition trusteefromtoolr0000shut Cover of edition bwb_KU-607-641 First published in 1960 — 48 editions
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  • Cover of: An Old Captivity
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    Cover of edition oldcaptivity0000shut Cover of edition oldcaptivity0000shut_s8m4 First published in 1924 — 47 editions
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  • Cover of: Most secret
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    Cover of edition mostsecret00nevi First published in 1945 — 47 editions
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  • Cover of: Landfall, a channel story
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    Cover of edition landfallchannels0000shut Cover of edition landfall00shut First published in 1940 — 46 editions
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  • Cover of: Marazan.
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    Cover of edition marazan00nevi Cover of edition marazan0000shut_f8o5 First published in 1926 — 44 editions
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  • Cover of: Requiem for a Wren (Large Print)
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    Cover of edition requiemforwrenla00nevi Cover of edition requiemforwren0000unse Cover of edition requiemforwren0000shut Cover of edition bwb_KU-427-762 Cover of edition breakingwave0000shut Cover of edition breakingwavecomp00shut Cover of edition breakingwave0000nevi First published in 1955 — 43 editions
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  • Cover of: What happened to the Corbetts.
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    Cover of edition ordealnovel00shut First published in 1939 — 36 editions
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  • Cover of: Pied piper.
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    Cover of edition piedpiper00shut Cover of edition piedpiper00mile Cover of edition piedpiper0000shut_u1z3 Cover of edition piedpiper0000shut_w2n1 Cover of edition piedpiper0000shut_y9j8 First published in 1941 — 36 editions
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  • Cover of: Beyond the black stump
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    Cover of edition beyondblackstump0000shut_a1t9 Cover of edition beyondblackstump0000shut_p6p5 Cover of edition beyondblackstump0000shut_j0a4 Cover of edition beyondblackstump0000shut First published in 1956 — 34 editions
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  • Cover of: So disdained
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    Cover of edition sodisdained0000shut Cover of edition sodisdained0000shut_c3d0 First published in 1928 — 32 editions
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  • Cover of: Slide rule: the autobiography of an engineer.
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    Cover of edition slideruleautobio0000shut Cover of edition sliderule0000shut_e8i8 First published in 1954 — 24 editions
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Photo of Nevil Shute

British writer and engineer (1899–1960)

Born 1899
Died 1960

Subjects

Fiction, Fiction, general, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), World War, 1939-1945, English fiction, Australia, fiction, Australian fiction, British, English Science fiction, Fiction in English, Fiction, action & adventure, History, Literature, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Aeronautical engineers, Air pilots, Biography, Discovery and exploration, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, science fiction, general, Norse, Nuclear warfare, Science fiction, United States. Navy, Abandoned children

Places

Australia, America, England, London, Amity, Britain, Brittany, France, Great Britain, Greenland, Jura, Long Island, Maine, Malaya, Malaya and Australia., Malaysia, New York, Newfoundland, Pennsylvania, Several places in Britain, Sharples, Switzerland, Tasmania, Tell el-Amarna (Egypt), USSR

People

Alex Kintner, Australians, Ben Gardner, Chrissie Watkins, David Hooper, Ellen Brody, Harry Meadows, Larry Vaughan, Leonard Hendricks, Martin Brody, Matt Hooper, Nefertiti Queen of Egypt (14th cent. B.C), Nevil Shute (1899-1960), Quint, Ruth Goode, Scotty Mackenzie (1917-), Theodore Honey, 杜威特

Time

20th century, WWII, 1003, 1940, 1963, 20th Century / 1939, Between the two World Wars, Depression, England during & after WWII, Europe, Post WW2, The bulk of the story is in 1942, World War II, and from 1948 to 1953?

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Alternative names

  • Nevil Shute Norway
  • NEVIL SHUTE
  • Nevil SHUTE
  • Nevil (Norway) Shute
  • Shute Nevil
  • Nevile Shute
  • Nevil Nevil Shute
  • Lonely Road Nevil Shute
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  • Nevil NEVIL SHUTE
  • Nevil Shute Shute
  • Neville Shute
  • N Shute
  • Shute N
  • Nevil 1899-1960 Shute
  • SHUTE NEVIL
  • Shute nevil:
  • Shute,Nevil
  • Norway Nevil Norway Nevil Shute
  • Nevil Shute ( Norway )

History

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November 30, 2023 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
November 30, 2023 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
November 29, 2023 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
November 7, 2023 Edited by Boobook Added links for Wikipedia and BAE Systems articles
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import