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Literary Fiction

Trustee from the Toolroom (Vintage International)

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(3,500 reviews)

Keith Stewart is a quiet and unassuming man called upon to undertake an extraordinary task. A skilled maker of miniature working models, he lives a modest life devoted to his hobby. But when his sister and her wealthy... See More

$14.99 Price verified 22 hours ago

The Breaking Wave (Vintage International)

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(340 reviews)

The Breaking Wave is one of Nevil Shute's most poignant and psychologically suspenseful novels, set in the years just after World War II. Sidelined by a wartime injury, fighter pilot Alan Duncan reluctantly returns to his... See More

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Classics

On the Beach (Vintage International)

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(5,534 reviews)

"The most shocking fiction I have read in years. What is shocking about it is both the idea and the sheer imaginative brilliance with which Mr. Shute brings it off." THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE They are the last generation... See More

$14.99 Price verified 41 minutes ago
Literary Fiction

Mysterious Aviator (Vintage International)

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(60 reviews)

When Peter Moran, a former World War I pilot, picks up a man on the roadside while driving through a bitter rainy night, he is startled to discover that the bedraggled man is a wartime comrade of his who has just survived a... See More

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Literature & Fiction

Slide Rule (Vintage International)

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(514 reviews)

Nevil Shute was a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling novelist. This autobiography charts Shute's path from childhood to his career as a gifted aeronautical... See More

$9.99 Price verified 16 hours ago
Literary Fiction

Pied Piper (Vintage International)

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(2,527 reviews)

One of Nevil Shute's most exciting novels, Pied Piper is the gripping story of one elderly man's daring attempt to rescue a group of children during the Nazi invasion of France. It is the spring of 1940 and John Sidney... See More

$12.99 Price verified 13 hours ago
Literary Fiction

Beyond the Black Stump (Vintage International)

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(752 reviews)

The expression "beyond the black stump" refers to the deepest, darkest wilds of the Australian outback, the setting for Nevil Shute's novel of a romance tested by cultural difference. Stanton Laird is an American geologist... See More

$6.99 Price verified 10 hours ago
Literature & Fiction

Lonely Road (Vintage International)

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(448 reviews)

Malcolm Stevenson, a wealthy ex-naval officer haunted by his memories of the war, finds his lonely life turned upside down one night when he runs into trouble on a road near the coast. What at first appears to be an accident... See More

$13.99 Price verified one day ago
Literary Fiction

Marazan (Vintage International)

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(315 reviews)

After pilot 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 turns out to be an escaped convict and Stenning's... See More

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Literary Fiction

Most Secret (Vintage International)

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(803 reviews)

Aboard a fishing boat named "Genevieve," a small group of British officers and French fishermen -- armed only with a flame thrower and small arms -- plan a secret commando mission against the might of the German army after... See More

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Literary Fiction

The Chequer Board (Vintage International)

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(840 reviews)

John Turner, a young man with a checkered past, has been told he has just one year to live. He decides to use his remaining time in search of three very different men he met in the hospital during the war, each of them in... See More

$8.99 Price verified one day ago
Literary Fiction

Ordeal (Vintage International)

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(46 reviews)

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 that destroys the city's infrastructure and... See More

$6.99 Price verified one day ago
Literature & Fiction

Kindling (Vintage International)

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(155 reviews)

When Henry Warren, director of an English bank, lands by chance in a hospital in a bleak Northern town that has been ruined by the closure of its shipyard, he discovers nothing less than a new purpose for his life. Moved by... See More

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Literary Fiction

The Far Country (Vintage International)

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(1,198 review)

When a young Englishwoman named Jennifer Morton leaves London to visit relatives on their sheep ranch in the Australian outback, she falls in love both with the gloriously beautiful country and with Carl, a Czech refugee who... See More

$10.99 Price verified one day ago
Literature & Fiction

Round the Bend (Vintage International)

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(896 reviews)

When Tom Cutter hires Constantine Shaklin as an engineer in his international air freight business, he little realizes the extraordinary gifts of his new recruit. Shaklin soon proves to possess a charismatic power that... See More

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Literary Fiction

A Town Like Alice (Vintage International)

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(7,389 reviews)

From the hugely acclaimed author of On the Beach -- a tale of love and war that follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback. ? "Entertaining... Dramatic... See More

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Literature & Fiction

No Highway (Vintage International)

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(1,088 review)

Theodore Honey is a shy, inconspicuous engineer whose eccentric interests are frowned upon in aviation circles. When a passenger plane crashes in Newfoundland under unexplained circumstances, Honey is determined to prove his... See More

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Literature & Fiction

Stephen Morris (Vintage International)

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(290 reviews)

These two related novellas, Stephen Morris and Pilotage, were Nevil Shute's first works of fiction and drew on his own youthful experiences. Both concern young men obsessed with the early world of aviation. Stephen Morris... See More

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Literary Fiction

An Old Captivity (Vintage International)

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(772 reviews)

Young pilot Donald Ross has little in common with the Oxford archaeologist 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... See More

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Literary Fiction

Pastoral (Vintage International)

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(1,274 review)

World War II pilot Peter Marshall leads the most successful bombing crew at his airbase, having survived an unusual number of extremely dangerous missions over Germany. However, when Peter falls hopelessly in love with an... See More

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Literature & Fiction

The Rainbow and the Rose (Vintage International)

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(807 reviews)

When seasoned pilot Johnny Pascoe tries to rescue a sick girl from the Tasmanian outback, his plane crashes and leaves him stranded and dangerously injured. Ronnie Clarke, who was trained by Pascoe, attempts to fly a doctor... See More

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Literary Fiction

Landfall (Vintage International)

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(611 reviews)

When Jerry Chambers, a young coastal patrol pilot during World War II, is accused of mistakenly sinking a British submarine he is reprimanded and sent to a remote posting to test an experimental new bomb, a dangerous mission... See More

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Action & Adventure

The Chequer Board

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(828 reviews)

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 different men he met briefly during the war: a snobbish British pilot, a young corporal... See More

$1.99 Price verified 18 hours ago
Literature & Fiction

Ruined City

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(602 reviews)

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 fate of the town's inhabitants, Warren risks his... See More

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Action & Adventure

What Happened to the Corbetts

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(610 reviews)

Set in 1938, this novel tells the story of the Corbetts, a family preparing for the coming war. As the world begins to collapse around them, Peter Corbett, a local lawyer, his wife, Joan, and their children make the decision... See More

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Action & Adventure

Pastoral

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(1,300 review)

This is a pastoral idyll of a bomber base! The bomber crew who are the central characters are ardent, though rather amateurish, fishermen, from the pilot captain down. Their enthusism has been one factor welding them into a... See More

$1.99 Price verified one day ago
Literature & Fiction

Stephen Morris

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(114 reviews)

These two linked novels have flying as a shared theme. In Stephen Morris we see the eponymous hero leaving Oxford University unable to marry his girl because of a lack of prospects. He starts as a mechanic and a pilot at a... See More

$1.99 Price verified 19 hours ago
Literature & Fiction

An Old Captivity

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(798 reviews)

An Old Captivity - about a young airman, an Oxford don, and his beautiful daughter who, on an expedition to the Arctic, are transported by explorers of another age - the Norsemen and their longships of a thousand years... See More

$0.99 Price verified 12 hours ago
Classics

In the Wet

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(805 reviews)

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 to his last words. Half-awake and half-dreaming the old man tells the story of... See More

$0.99 Price verified 21 hours ago
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