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A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A Town Like Alice The Legacy by Nevil Shute 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 leads to ...Show more
A Town Like Alice: (Vintage Classics Shute Series) by Nevil Shute
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
An Old Captivity by Nevil Shute
Category: Fiction
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 stubborn daughter, Alix. But once the three of them reach the treacherous shores of Greenland their destinies are inextricably bound by the events ...Show more
Beyond the Black Stump by Nevil Shute
Category: Classic
"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
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
In the Wet by Nevil Shute
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
Landfall by Nevil Shute
Category: Fiction
Landfallby Nevil ShuteA romantic World War II adventure about the strength of true love and how it can overcome any obstacle. A British air reconnaissance officer falls for a pub waitress, but finds his lift in chaos when he accidentally bombs a British submarine, mistaking it for a German U-boat. What ...Show more
Lonely Road by Nevil Shute
Category: Classic
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 pursuit of the criminals will throw his life and the lives of those he cares about into ...Show more
Marazan by Nevil Shute
Category: Fiction
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 savior is an escaped convict, and his determination to help him leads Stenning into a tense and dramatic adventure of intrigue, drug-running and murder. ...Show more
Most Secret by Nevil Shute
Category: Fiction
In their trusty fishing boat Genevieve, armed with only a flame thrower and limited ammunition, a small group of officers and men take a stand against the might of the German army after the fall of France in World War II.