Nevil Shute (January 17, 1899 – January 12, 1960) (full name Nevil Shute Norway) was one of the most popular novelists of the mid-20th century. His stories and characters have a genuine sweetness to them, which does occasionally becomes cloying, but which helps explain why a half-century after his death, virtually all his books remain in print. Shute's works are generally adventure novels told in a low-key but engrossing style, often with an emphasis on technical areas. ''No Highway'' (1948), for example, builds drama around structure failure in an airplane design. Several of his novels also have a supernatural element, notably ''Round the Bend'' (1951), which concerns a new religion growing up around an airplane mechanic. Shute's best-known book was one of his last: ''On the Beach'' (1957), set in a world slowly dying from the effects of an atomic war. Its popularity is due in part to its adaptation into a film, which Shute despised because of the liberties taken with his characters. == Biography == Born in Ealing, London, he was educated at Shrewsbury and Balliol College, Oxford. Shute served in World War I as a ground-based soldier. An Aerospace engineering as well as a pilot, he began his engineering degree with deHavilands, but being dissatisfied with the opportunities, took a positon with Vickers#Aviation and was involved with the development of airships. Shute was Chief Calculator (stress engineer) for the Airship Guarantee Company where he worked on construction of the R-100 Airship. He was deputy chief engineer under Barnes Wallis from 1924–1930. His most significant airship work involved the ''R100'', a prototype for passenger-carrying airships that would serve the needs of Britain's global empire. ''R100'' was a modest success, but the fatal crash of its government-funded counterpart, ''R101'', in 1930 ended Britain's interest in airships and the ''R100'' was grounded and scrapped. He gives a detailed account of the episode in his 1950 autobiographical work, ''Slide Rule.'' Shute left Vickers shortly afterward, and in 1931 founded the aircraft construction company Airspeed Ltd. In 1931 he married Francis Mary Heaton. They had two daughters. By the outbreak of World War II Shute was already a rising novelist. He joined the Royal Naval Reserve as a sub-lieutenant in the Miscellaneous Weapons Department, where he experimented with secret weapons, a job that appealed to the engineer in him. His celebrity as a writer caused the Ministry of Information to send him to the Battle of Normandy on June 6, 1944, and later to Burma as a correspondent. After World War II, he went to live in Australia, decrying what he saw as a decline in his home country. Australia features in many of his later novels, the best-known being ''A Town Like Alice'' (1949). He had a brief career as a racing car driver in Australia between 1956 and 1958, driving a white XK140 Jaguar (car) . Some of this experience found its way into his book ''On The Beach''. Many of his books were filmed, including ''Pied Piper (1942 novel)'' (1942), ''On the Beach'' and ''No Highway'' (filmed as "No Highway in the Sky" in 1951). ''A Town Like Alice '' was adapted for television in the 1970s, and shown in the United States on the Public Broadcasting System's ''Masterpiece Theater.'' He died in Melbourne in 1960. ==Style and themes== The narrative backbone of a Nevil Shute novel usually involves the planning and execution of a complex and ''worthwhile'' mission or quest. Shute's protagonists are often ordinary people who feel a sense of responsibility and an obligation to complete their difficult task. For example: * ''An Old Captivity'' involves a pilot who is hired by an archaeologist to take aerial photographs of a site in Greenland. Nevil Shute takes us through the practical details: how the trip is budgeted, how the cost of the plane can be offset by the resale value at the end of the trip, how the pilot must plan for lodging and refuelling at remote locations , how he must learn to operate the aerial camera himself. * The framing story of ''A Town Like Alice'' (U.S. title: ''The Legacy'') is about business development. It opens in a solicitor's office, where a young woman who has just inherited money explains that she "wants to go back to Malaya and dig a well" (a quest). By the end of the book, she is operating a small shoe factory in an Australian outback town, then an ice cream parlor where the factory staff can spend their wages, then a cinema, and a few other things... and the economic development she has touched off is putting the previously dingy town of Willstown on track to become "a town like Alice Springs." * ''The Trustee from the Toolroom'' concerns a machinist who makes a small but adequate income writing articles for model-making magazines. His wealthy relatives leave their daughter with him for a sailing trip around the world. Their boat is wrecked on a remote Polynesian atoll and no trace can be found of the legacy they should have left their daughter. He realizes that they must have converted their fortune to valuables and smuggled them out of England to avoid taxes. To discharge his obligation as trustee, he realizes that he must somehow personally travel to the wreckage site and recover the valuables, and do this secretly. == Belief in private enterprise == Nevil Shute's novels frequently present private enterprise as a source of moral good. In this respect, he is presenting an uncommon theme found, usually, only in American 1950's literature. Novels such as Ayn Rand's, 'Atlas Shrugged' or Cameron Hawley's 'Executive Suite' and 'Cash McCall' present the businessman as a value-creating hero who adds wealth to the human experience. For Example, ''A Town Like Alice'' contains a very characteristic passage. A young woman, who has been working as a secretary in a pleasant, but uninspiring, job, has just received a substantial legacy. She ponders on what she should do, now that she no longer actually needs to work. The following exchange flashes by almost as an aside: :I know of several charitable appeals who would have found a first-rate shortand-typist, unpaid, a perfect godsend, and I told her so. She was inclined to be critical about those. "Surely, if a thing is really worth while, it'll pay," she said. She evidently had quite a strong business instinct latent in her. "It wouldn't need to have an unpaid secretary." :"Charitable organizations like to keep the overheads down," I remarked. :"I shouldn't have thought organizations that haven't got enough margin to pay a secretary can possibly do very much good," she said. This belief also carries ''Ruined City'' (1938; U.S. title: ''Kindling''), about a wealthy and respected banker who lifts a shipbuilding town out of the depression by bringing a ship-building concern back to life through money, bribery and questionable financial dealings. His reputation is destroyed, and he goes to jail for fraud, but the shipyard is back in business and the town is saved. When he has served his term, he returns to the town and finds a bronze plaque on the shipyard gate with his head and shoulders embossed on it and the words :HENRY WARREN :1934 :HE GAVE US WORK == ''On the Beach'' == Shute's most famous novel, ''On the Beach,'' is one of his least characteristic, dark in tone and devoid of his usual optimism. It is set in Australia just after a nuclear war has devastated the northern hemisphere, with air circulation patterns slowly bringing the fallout to the southern hemisphere. Ostensibly about nuclear war, it is really an examination of how people live and what they do with their lives when they have certain foreknowledge of their imminent mortality. (A similar theme is touched on, but not explored in depth, in the framing story of ''The Chequer Board''.) Shute's optimism is still present in a veiled form: he does not envision a violent breakdown in society, his characters do not riot, but try their best to cope with the inevitable and muddle with it—not "muddle through," as, in this case, that is impossible. The tone of the book is melancholic, not angry. Published in 1957, the book played a role in influencing public opinion in the U.S. toward support for the Partial Test Ban Treaty. == ''Round the Bend'' == Nevil Shute believed ''Round the Bend'' to be his best novel. It concerns a Western-educated Malayan aircraft mechanic, who develops a religious belief about the moral imperative of performing good maintenance on the machines upon which others' lives depend. He talks with other mechanics and unintentionally becomes the leader of a religious movement. His employers are inconvenienced by crowds of pilgrims coming to camp on their airfields, but appreciate the religion for making its disciples such dedicated and reliable workers. To a modern reader, ''Round the Bend'' brings to mind Robert Pirsig's 1974 ''Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,'' in which some similar themes are refracted through very different lenses. (Interestingly, both books were originally published by the same publisher). ==Bibliography== * ''Stephen Morris (novel)'' (1923, published posthumously in 1961) ISBN 1842322974 * ''Marazan'' (1926) ISBN 1842322656 * ''So Disdained'' (1928) ISBN 184232294X * ''Lonely Road'' (1932) ISBN 1842322613 * ''Ruined City'' (1938) (also published under the title ''Kindling'') ISBN 1842322907 * ''What Happened to the Corbetts'' (1939) (also published under the title ''Ordeal'') ISBN 1842323024 * ''An Old Captivity'' (1940) ISBN 1842322753 * ''Landfall: A Channel Story'' (1940) ISBN 1842322583 * ''Pied Piper (1942 novel)'' (1942) ISBN 1842322788 * ''Most Secret'' (1942) ISBN 1842322699 * ''Pastoral (novel)'' (1944) ISBN 184232277X * ''Vinland the Good'' (1946) ISBN 1889439118 * ''The Chequer Board'' (1947) ISBN 1842322486 * ''No Highway'' (1948) ISBN 1842322737 * ''A Town Like Alice'' (1950) (also published under the title ''The Legacy'') ISBN 1842323008 * ''Round the Bend'' (1951) ISBN 1842322893 * ''The Far Country'' (1952) ISBN 1842322516 * ''In the Wet'' (1953) ISBN 1842322540 * ''Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer'' (1950) ISBN 1842322915 * ''Requiem for a Wren'' (1955) ISBN 1842322869 * ''Beyond the Black Stump'' (1956) ISBN 184232246X * ''On the Beach'' (1957) ISBN 1842322761 * ''The Rainbow and the Rose'' (1958) ISBN 1842322834 * ''Trustee from the Toolroom'' (1960) ISBN 1842323016 ==External links== *[http://www.nevilshute.org/ The Nevil Shute Foundation] *[http://delarue.net/norway.htm ''Mr Norway''] - Norway's racing career and the filming of ''On the Beach'' 1899 births 1960 deaths English novelists British aviators Australian writers
After initially getting a 404 Not Found for "The Nevil Shute Book Page," I fixed the URL. I then took a closer look at [http://home.hiwaay.net/~orr/nevilshutebooks.html the site], and and it appears to be not much more than an ad for someone selling second-hand Nevil Shute books. I could find very little information or material on Nevil Shute at this site. I believe the link ought to be removed and will remove it in a day or so unless someone can give me a good reason why it should stay or point to something I've missed at the site. User:Dpbsmith 03:21, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC) * I agree. Kill it. User:DavidWBrooks 14:06, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC) ==Great link, thanks for adding it== That [http://delarue.net/norway.htm ''Mr Norway''] site is very interesting. Great stuff. Thanks for adding it. User:Dpbsmith_User_talk:dpbsmith">User:Dpbsmith|User:Dpbsmith User_talk:dpbsmith 12:36, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
* Re the link: My pleasure. I am not very familiar with Wikipedia just yet, so I was hoping that it was suitable. You may find other items of interest on my site - go to http://delarue.net. You can also contact me via the site. - Keith De La Rue.-- 03:22, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
== No book-seller links, please ==
I removed one. - User:DavidWBrooks 19:01, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
*I have to say that the actual page linked to was informative and advertising-free. And the site itself is not the site of one particular dealer selling books. The real objection is that as nearly as I can tell, it added nothing to the article—it contained no information that was not already there. So I think your call was a good one. However, I'd hope we'd accept a link to a commercial site ''if it were genuinely useful and informative.'' We should watch and see if this anon tries to systematically add more links to the same site. User:Dpbsmith User_talk:dpbsmith 20:10, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
**You're right, my comment was overly brusque; the site wasn't as grossly buy-my-books as many are. External links can be tricky, of course, and your rule is good: The link has to add something that isn't there otherwise, and commercial sites can certainly do that. But there is a large gray area - discussion forums about an author are a perfect example. Or take a look at the various links that have come and gone on guinea pig - at what point does an ad-supported site selling pet supplies that also has some information make the cut? Tough one. - User:DavidWBrooks 20:24, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
== "libertarian" viewpoint? ==
An anonymous editor removed the section discussing Shute's portrayal of capitalism and individuality in his books. I have undone that removal - the discussion could be edited, but it's a legitimate topic. - User:DavidWBrooks 23:23, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
*I am that anonymous editor, and I have some things to say / a couple of points I would like to discuss.
*1) I realise that just deleting a whole section seems like vandalism running counter to the wikipedia ethos, especially if it is politically contentious and the editor is anonymous.
*2) The section is politically contentious. I have only read On the Beach and am not a Nevil Shute scholar - there may be independent evidence that he actually did hold libertarian views (interviews, etc). However, the text I deleted suggested that he disapproved of charity and that he approved of "bribery and questionable financial dealings", basing this on the viewpoints of his characters. The first one (which "flashes by almost as an aside") seems to me rather like Shute is ridiculing the "young woman". In fact, I would challenge anyone to read the paragraph I deleted and deny that it was written by someone grinding a libertarian axe. Just try it.
*3) I now have personal experience that intrusive edits are dealt with quickly and harshly, and that the Encyclopaedia Britannica flunkies have gotten it all wrong about vandals messing wikipedia up.
*4) Dpbsmith, who wrote the paragraph I was trying to delete, and the meddling kid DavidWBrooks, are actually both - unlike me - serious contributors to Wikipedia, so it's kind of hard for me to brush them off.
*5) Why is it that libertarians are always in the forefront of free culture, like wikipedia and linux, when this actually means you're ruining the market for Microsoft?
:: Not a libertarian here, bub - just somebody interested in articles that accurately describe interesting and important aspects of the subject matter. I've read almost all of Shute's novels, and the "noble individual doing great things by sticking to moral certainties and ignoring the herd" is a very common theme, well worth discusing. Don't allow your feelings about libertarianism (or anything else) to drive your edits.
:The fact that the section is politically contentious doesn't mean it should be heaved out the window. If you think it grinds an axe, rewrite it. Improve it. Make it better, don't just kill it! (breaks into song) "That's the wiki w-a-a-a-ay!" - User:DavidWBrooks 20:10, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
: P.S. No, there isn't a wikipedia song ... just kidding.
::Hi! Sorry if I'm harrassing you about Nevil Shute... but wouldn't it be reasonable to produce some actual evidence (quotations, etc.) as to his actual political views here, instead of just riffing on what people in his books happen to say? He seems to have been a pretty public persona in Australia - he should have said something political somewhere.
A) No harrassing seen - this sort of back-and-forth is the whole point of wikipedia. Why don't you create an account so your posts can be timed? Then people know if a comment is from days ago or just a few minutes ago. (Also, without your account I can't answer notes you leave on my Talk page)
B) The article seems to me to talk about the themes and styles in Shute's ''books'', not his ''life''. "Riffing on what people in his books happen to say" is a fairly common way of writing about an author's works, it seems to me!
C) This portion of this article is not well-written and needs work, which I may do one of these days, although any and all are (of course) welcome to do it first. I think good NPOV editing could solve most of your concerns, Mr. Anonymous! - User:DavidWBrooks 22:15, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
:I thought it was clear that these portions of the article deal with ''recurrent themes in Nevil Shute's novels,'' not ''personal beliefs of Nevil Shute.'' I think the statement that Shute's novels "present money and private enterprise as sources of moral good" is almost as obvious as the statement that Shute's novels often involve aviation. If the phrase "they ''always'' have [it] as a subtext" is mine—and I'm afraid it is—well, yeah, that's going a bit far. But the examples are specific and the quotations are accurate.
:Not to discuss these themes would be like failing to mention the Christian background in the work of J. R. R. Tolkien or C. S. Lewis.
:I think it goes without saying that one should not assume that the words of Nevil Shute's fictional characters reflect Nevil Shute's own views.
:Similarly, please do not assume that if dpbsmith writes "Nevil Shute's novels ... have, as a subtext, a firm belief in money and private enterprise as sources of moral good," that it means that dpbsmith holds that firm belief himself. User:Dpbsmith User_talk:dpbsmith 01:26, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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Nevil Shute (January 17, 1899 – January 12, 1960) (full name Nevil Shute Norway) was one of the most popular novelists of the mid-20th century. His stories and characters have a genuine sweetness to them, which does occasionally becomes cloying, but which helps explain why a half-century after his death, virtually all his books remain in print. Shute's works are generally adventure novels told in a low-key but engrossing style, often with an emphasis on technical areas. ''No Highway'' (1948), for example, builds drama around structure failure in an airplane design. Several of his novels also have a supernatural element, notably ''Round the Bend'' (1951), which concerns a new religion growing up around an airplane mechanic. Shute's best-known book was one of his last: ''On the Beach'' (1957), set in a world slowly dying from the effects of an atomic war. Its popularity is due in part to its adaptation into a film, which Shute despised because of the liberties taken with his characters. == Biography == Born in Ealing, London, he was educated at Shrewsbury and Balliol College, Oxford. Shute served in World War I as a ground-based soldier. An Aerospace engineering as well as a pilot, he began his engineering degree with deHavilands, but being dissatisfied with the opportunities, took a positon with Vickers#Aviation and was involved with the development of airships. Shute was Chief Calculator (stress engineer) for the Airship Guarantee Company where he worked on construction of the R-100 Airship. He was deputy chief engineer under Barnes Wallis from 1924–1930. His most significant airship work involved the ''R100'', a prototype for passenger-carrying airships that would serve the needs of Britain's global empire. ''R100'' was a modest success, but the fatal crash of its government-funded counterpart, ''R101'', in 1930 ended Britain's interest in airships and the ''R100'' was grounded and scrapped. He gives a detailed account of the episode in his 1950 autobiographical work, ''Slide Rule.'' Shute left Vickers shortly afterward, and in 1931 founded the aircraft construction company Airspeed Ltd. In 1931 he married Francis Mary Heaton. They had two daughters. By the outbreak of World War II Shute was already a rising novelist. He joined the Royal Naval Reserve as a sub-lieutenant in the Miscellaneous Weapons Department, where he experimented with secret weapons, a job that appealed to the engineer in him. His celebrity as a writer caused the Ministry of Information to send him to the Battle of Normandy on June 6, 1944, and later to Burma as a correspondent. After World War II, he went to live in Australia, decrying what he saw as a decline in his home country. Australia features in many of his later novels, the best-known being ''A Town Like Alice'' (1949). He had a brief career as a racing car driver in Australia between 1956 and 1958, driving a white XK140 Jaguar (car) . Some of this experience found its way into his book ''On The Beach''. Many of his books were filmed, including ''Pied Piper (1942 novel)'' (1942), ''On the Beach'' and ''No Highway'' (filmed as "No Highway in the Sky" in 1951). ''A Town Like Alice '' was adapted for television in the 1970s, and shown in the United States on the Public Broadcasting System's ''Masterpiece Theater.'' He died in Melbourne in 1960. ==Style and themes== The narrative backbone of a Nevil Shute novel usually involves the planning and execution of a complex and ''worthwhile'' mission or quest. Shute's protagonists are often ordinary people who feel a sense of responsibility and an obligation to complete their difficult task. For example: * ''An Old Captivity'' involves a pilot who is hired by an archaeologist to take aerial photographs of a site in Greenland. Nevil Shute takes us through the practical details: how the trip is budgeted, how the cost of the plane can be offset by the resale value at the end of the trip, how the pilot must plan for lodging and refuelling at remote locations , how he must learn to operate the aerial camera himself. * The framing story of ''A Town Like Alice'' (U.S. title: ''The Legacy'') is about business development. It opens in a solicitor's office, where a young woman who has just inherited money explains that she "wants to go back to Malaya and dig a well" (a quest). By the end of the book, she is operating a small shoe factory in an Australian outback town, then an ice cream parlor where the factory staff can spend their wages, then a cinema, and a few other things... and the economic development she has touched off is putting the previously dingy town of Willstown on track to become "a town like Alice Springs." * ''The Trustee from the Toolroom'' concerns a machinist who makes a small but adequate income writing articles for model-making magazines. His wealthy relatives leave their daughter with him for a sailing trip around the world. Their boat is wrecked on a remote Polynesian atoll and no trace can be found of the legacy they should have left their daughter. He realizes that they must have converted their fortune to valuables and smuggled them out of England to avoid taxes. To discharge his obligation as trustee, he realizes that he must somehow personally travel to the wreckage site and recover the valuables, and do this secretly. == Belief in private enterprise == Nevil Shute's novels frequently present private enterprise as a source of moral good. In this respect, he is presenting an uncommon theme found, usually, only in American 1950's literature. Novels such as Ayn Rand's, 'Atlas Shrugged' or Cameron Hawley's 'Executive Suite' and 'Cash McCall' present the businessman as a value-creating hero who adds wealth to the human experience. For Example, ''A Town Like Alice'' contains a very characteristic passage. A young woman, who has been working as a secretary in a pleasant, but uninspiring, job, has just received a substantial legacy. She ponders on what she should do, now that she no longer actually needs to work. The following exchange flashes by almost as an aside: :I know of several charitable appeals who would have found a first-rate shortand-typist, unpaid, a perfect godsend, and I told her so. She was inclined to be critical about those. "Surely, if a thing is really worth while, it'll pay," she said. She evidently had quite a strong business instinct latent in her. "It wouldn't need to have an unpaid secretary." :"Charitable organizations like to keep the overheads down," I remarked. :"I shouldn't have thought organizations that haven't got enough margin to pay a secretary can possibly do very much good," she said. This belief also carries ''Ruined City'' (1938; U.S. title: ''Kindling''), about a wealthy and respected banker who lifts a shipbuilding town out of the depression by bringing a ship-building concern back to life through money, bribery and questionable financial dealings. His reputation is destroyed, and he goes to jail for fraud, but the shipyard is back in business and the town is saved. When he has served his term, he returns to the town and finds a bronze plaque on the shipyard gate with his head and shoulders embossed on it and the words :HENRY WARREN :1934 :HE GAVE US WORK == ''On the Beach'' == Shute's most famous novel, ''On the Beach,'' is one of his least characteristic, dark in tone and devoid of his usual optimism. It is set in Australia just after a nuclear war has devastated the northern hemisphere, with air circulation patterns slowly bringing the fallout to the southern hemisphere. Ostensibly about nuclear war, it is really an examination of how people live and what they do with their lives when they have certain foreknowledge of their imminent mortality. (A similar theme is touched on, but not explored in depth, in the framing story of ''The Chequer Board''.) Shute's optimism is still present in a veiled form: he does not envision a violent breakdown in society, his characters do not riot, but try their best to cope with the inevitable and muddle with it—not "muddle through," as, in this case, that is impossible. The tone of the book is melancholic, not angry. Published in 1957, the book played a role in influencing public opinion in the U.S. toward support for the Partial Test Ban Treaty. == ''Round the Bend'' == Nevil Shute believed ''Round the Bend'' to be his best novel. It concerns a Western-educated Malayan aircraft mechanic, who develops a religious belief about the moral imperative of performing good maintenance on the machines upon which others' lives depend. He talks with other mechanics and unintentionally becomes the leader of a religious movement. His employers are inconvenienced by crowds of pilgrims coming to camp on their airfields, but appreciate the religion for making its disciples such dedicated and reliable workers. To a modern reader, ''Round the Bend'' brings to mind Robert Pirsig's 1974 ''Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,'' in which some similar themes are refracted through very different lenses. (Interestingly, both books were originally published by the same publisher). ==Bibliography== * ''Stephen Morris (novel)'' (1923, published posthumously in 1961) ISBN 1842322974 * ''Marazan'' (1926) ISBN 1842322656 * ''So Disdained'' (1928) ISBN 184232294X * ''Lonely Road'' (1932) ISBN 1842322613 * ''Ruined City'' (1938) (also published under the title ''Kindling'') ISBN 1842322907 * ''What Happened to the Corbetts'' (1939) (also published under the title ''Ordeal'') ISBN 1842323024 * ''An Old Captivity'' (1940) ISBN 1842322753 * ''Landfall: A Channel Story'' (1940) ISBN 1842322583 * ''Pied Piper (1942 novel)'' (1942) ISBN 1842322788 * ''Most Secret'' (1942) ISBN 1842322699 * ''Pastoral (novel)'' (1944) ISBN 184232277X * ''Vinland the Good'' (1946) ISBN 1889439118 * ''The Chequer Board'' (1947) ISBN 1842322486 * ''No Highway'' (1948) ISBN 1842322737 * ''A Town Like Alice'' (1950) (also published under the title ''The Legacy'') ISBN 1842323008 * ''Round the Bend'' (1951) ISBN 1842322893 * ''The Far Country'' (1952) ISBN 1842322516 * ''In the Wet'' (1953) ISBN 1842322540 * ''Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer'' (1950) ISBN 1842322915 * ''Requiem for a Wren'' (1955) ISBN 1842322869 * ''Beyond the Black Stump'' (1956) ISBN 184232246X * ''On the Beach'' (1957) ISBN 1842322761 * ''The Rainbow and the Rose'' (1958) ISBN 1842322834 * ''Trustee from the Toolroom'' (1960) ISBN 1842323016 ==External links== *[http://www.nevilshute.org/ The Nevil Shute Foundation] *[http://delarue.net/norway.htm ''Mr Norway''] - Norway's racing career and the filming of ''On the Beach'' 1899 births 1960 deaths English novelists British aviators Australian writers
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After initially getting a 404 Not Found for "The Nevil Shute Book Page," I fixed the URL. I then took a closer look at [http://home.hiwaay.net/~orr/nevilshutebooks.html the site], and and it appears to be not much more than an ad for someone selling second-hand Nevil Shute books. I could find very little information or material on Nevil Shute at this site. I believe the link ought to be removed and will remove it in a day or so unless someone can give me a good reason why it should stay or point to something I've missed at the site. User:Dpbsmith 03:21, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC) * I agree. Kill it. User:DavidWBrooks 14:06, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC) ==Great link, thanks for adding it== That [http://delarue.net/norway.htm ''Mr Norway''] site is very interesting. Great stuff. Thanks for adding it. User:Dpbsmith_
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