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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 close to a
young woman struggling to accept the harsh realities of their
situation. Then a faint Morse code signal is picked up,
transmitting from the United States and the submarine must set sail
through the bleak ocean to search for signs of life. On the Beach
is Nevil Shute's most powerful novel. Both gripping and intensely
moving, its impact is unforgettable.
Nevil Shute's most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows
its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War
II to the rugged Australian outback.
Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by
the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death
march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after
the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her.
However, an unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya
to give something back to the villagers who saved her life. But it
turns out that they have a gift for her as well: the news that the
young Australian soldier, Joe Harmon, who had risked his life to
help the women, had miraculously survived. Jean's search for Joe
leads her to a desolate Australian outpost called Willstown, where
she finds a challenge that will draw on all the resourcefulness and
spirit that carried her through her war-time ordeals.
'Probably more people have shed tears over the last page of A Town
Like Alice than about any other novel in the English language...
remarkable' Guardian 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 the deaths of many. Due to her courageous
spirit and ability to speak Malay, Jean takes on the role of leader
of the sorry gaggle of prisoners and many end up owing their lives
to her indomitable spirit. While on the march, the group run into
some Australian prisoners, one of whom, Joe Harman, helps them
steal some food, and is horrifically punished by the Japanese as a
result. After the war, Jean tracks Joe down in Australia and
together they begin to dream of surmounting the past and
transforming his one-horse outback town into a thriving community
like Alice Springs... With an introduction by Eric Lomax, author of
The Railway Man
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A Town Like Alice (Hardcover)
Nevil Shute; Introduction by Jenny Colgan
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Jean Paget, a young English woman, is captured by the Japanese army in Malaya during World War Two. She is forced on a brutal march across the country with a group of women and children. During this appalling ordeal she befriends Joe Harman, an Australian soldier who risks his own life to help the women.
A few years later, and back in England, Jean receives an unexpected and substantial inheritance. She decides to use the money to repay the Malayan people who risked their lives to help her and her fellow prisoners during the war so she travels back to the village where they stayed. From there she travels on to Australia in search of lost love. Cut off in the Australian outback and thousands of miles from home, Jean once again draws on her admirable determination and entrepreneurial spirit when she sets out to build a thriving community.
A heart-rending story of strength in adversity, A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute is a celebration of the overwhelming power of love. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by bestselling novelist, Jenny Colgan.
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
When Tom Cutter hires Constantine Shaklin as an engineer in his air freight business, he little realises the extraordinary gifts of his new recruit. Shaklin possesses a religious power which inspires everyone he meets to a new faith and hope for humanity. As Cutter's business grows across Asia, so does Shaklin's fame, until he is widely regarded as a unifying deity. Though he struggles to believe Shaklin is indeed divine, the friendship will transform Cutter's life.
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Pied Piper (Paperback)
Nevil Shute; Introduction by John Boyne
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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 some friends who must stay
behind to help the Allied war effort. As the conflict grows closer,
the roads become impassable and Howard also comes across five more
children who need his help. He ends up leading this motley group of
youngsters through the French countryside, constantly beset by
danger yet heroically protecting his charges. WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY JOHN BOYNE 'A very good writer...simple, elegant and
readable...a fantastic story' Jonathan Coe
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 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 woman's
identity, the death of Alan's brother Bill and, above all, the
disappearance of his brother's fiancee, Janet.
"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, 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 rain moves ever closer, the
world as we know it winds toward an inevitable end....
"From the Paperback edition."
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No Highway (Paperback)
Nevil Shute
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R313
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Read this classic uplifting, moving and heartwarming story about
life in the face of the cold war. 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 before more lives are lost.
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.
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.
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The Seafarers (Hardcover)
Nevil Shute; Foreword by Dan Telfair; Introduction by Shoshana Milgram
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