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Nevil Shute

    17 janvier 1899 – 12 janvier 1960

    Nevil Shute Norway, écrivant sous le nom de Nevil Shute, était un romancier britannique populaire et un ingénieur aéronautique à succès. Il a poursuivi son écriture comme un moyen de partager ses idées et ses pensées avec un public plus large. Ses œuvres sont souvent caractérisées par une narration fluide et une profonde compréhension de la psychologie humaine. Il a passé la dernière décennie de sa vie en Australie, poursuivant ses efforts créatifs.

    Nevil Shute
    Slide Rule
    Ruined City
    Trustee from the Toolroom
    Pied Piper
    Round the Bend
    Le Testament
    • Round the Bend

      • 384pages
      • 14 heures de lecture
      5,0(1)Évaluer

      When Tom Cutter hires Constantine Shaklin as an engineer in his air freight business, he little realises the extraordinary gifts of his new recruit. As Cutter's business grows across Asia, so does Shaklin's fame, until he is widely regarded as a unifying deity.

      Round the Bend
    • Set against the backdrop of a Nazi invasion in France, the story follows John Howard as he navigates the challenges of escaping back to England with seven small children. As the roads become impassable, Howard must lead this diverse group through the perilous French countryside, highlighting themes of courage, responsibility, and the resilience of youth in the face of danger.

      Pied Piper
    • Trustee from the Toolroom

      • 314pages
      • 11 heures de lecture
      4,2(131)Évaluer

      Reissue of novel, first published in 1960, about the search for a lost inheritance on an uninhabited island in the Pacific ocean. By the author of 'A Town Like Alice' and other novels.

      Trustee from the Toolroom
    • Ruined City

      • 280pages
      • 10 heures de lecture
      4,1(32)Évaluer

      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 fortune and reputation to save the shipyard and restore the town to its former prosperity.

      Ruined City
    • Slide Rule

      • 264pages
      • 10 heures de lecture
      4,1(28)Évaluer

      Nevil Shute was a power and 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 engineer working at the forefront of the technological experimentation of the 1920s and 30s.

      Slide Rule
    • The Chequer Board

      • 272pages
      • 10 heures de lecture
      4,1(46)Évaluer

      John Turner, 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: an snobbish British pilot, a young corporal accused of murder, and a black G.I.

      The Chequer Board
    • Reader's Digest Condensed BooksVolume 1: 1959Series volume 36Reader's Digest authorized condensed edition of: The Admen by Shepherd Meade, The Rainbow and the Rose by Nevil Shute, Mrs. 'arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico, The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick, Woman of Straw by Elizabeth Coatsworth.

      The Rainbow and the Rose
    • Landfall

      • 256pages
      • 9 heures de lecture
      4,0(21)Évaluer

      The story follows Jerry Chambers, a young pilot who inadvertently sinks a British submarine, leading to his reassignment for a perilous mission testing a new bomb. Separated from his beloved Mona, he faces life-threatening challenges while she works tirelessly to exonerate him. Their intertwined fates raise the stakes as time runs out for Mona to prove his innocence.

      Landfall
    • The mysterious death of a young woman on an Australian farm reveals a heartrending story of doomed wartime romance Alan Duncan returns to his family home in Australia after the war and several years of study in England. After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his death on 12 January 1960.

      Requiem for a Wren