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    Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 1899 – 12 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used...
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  • (United States title: The Legacy) is a romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia. Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman...
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  • On the Beach (novel) (category Novels by Nevil Shute)
    is an apocalyptic novel published in 1957, written by British author Nevil Shute after he emigrated to Australia. The novel details the experiences of...
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  • On the Beach (1959 film) (category Films based on works by Nevil Shute)
    Anthony Perkins. Produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, it is based on Nevil Shute's 1957 novel On the Beach depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war. Unlike...
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  • churchman Michael Shute (1951–2020), Canadian scholar Nerina Shute (1908–2004), British writer and journalist Nevil Shute, pen-name of Nevil Shute Norway (1899–1960)...
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    established in 1931 to build aeroplanes in York, England, by A. H. Tiltman and Nevil Shute Norway (the aeronautical engineer and novelist, who used his forenames...
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  • Trustee from the Toolroom (category Novels by Nevil Shute)
    Trustee from the Toolroom is a novel written by Nevil Shute. Shute died in January 1960; Trustee was published posthumously later that year. The plot of...
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  • On the Beach (2000 film) (category Films based on works by Nevil Shute)
    is a remake of a 1959 film, which was also based on the 1957 novel by Nevil Shute, but updates the setting of the story to the film's then-future of 2006...
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  • Requiem for a Wren (category Novels by Nevil Shute)
    Requiem For A Wren is a novel by Nevil Shute. It was first published in 1955 by William Heinemann Ltd. It was published in the United States under the...
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  • one of the very few accounts of life under the Japanese in Brunei. On Nevil Shute's trip to Australia, he offered to fly the local Cairns doctor, Clarke...
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    for his invention of the bouncing bomb. The design team also included Nevil Shute Norway as the senior stress engineer. R100 first flew in December 1929...
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  • proposes to offer money to voters who agree to sell their voting right. Nevil Shute's 1953 novel In the Wet offers a system of up to seven votes for a person...
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  • Seafarers, a short film by Stanley Kubrick The Seafarers (novel), a novel by Nevil Shute Catan: Seafarers, an expansion of the board game The Settlers of Catan...
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    "like" Alice. The local library in Alice Springs is named after Nevil Shute: the Nevil Shute Memorial Library. Lasseters Casino in Alice Springs is the destination...
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    principal assistant (the "Chief Calculator"), Nevil Shute Norway, later well known as the novelist Nevil Shute, later gave his account of the design and construction...
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  • Scotland and England Nevil Shed, American basketball player Nevil Shute (1899–1960), British novelist and aeronautical engineer Nevil Sidgwick (1873–1952)...
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  • short-lived state Nevil Shute Norway (1899–1960), a British aeronautical engineer and novelist who published under the pen name "Nevil Shute" The SS France...
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  • Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer (category Books by Nevil Shute)
    autobiography of the British novelist Nevil Shute. It was first published in 1954. Slide Rule concentrates on Nevil Shute's work in aviation, ending in 1938...
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  • Beyond the Black Stump (category Novels by Nevil Shute)
    Beyond the Black Stump is a novel by British author Nevil Shute. It was first published in the UK by William Heinemann Ltd, in 1956. The story concerns...
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  • film directed by Anthony Mann The Far Country (novel), a 1952 novel by Nevil Shute The Far Country (miniseries), a 1972 Australian miniseries based on the...
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  • Polish film by Wilhelm Sasnal Fallout, a 2013 documentary on author Nevil Shute and the making of Stanley Kramer's On the Beach Mission: Impossible –...
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  • Ruined City (category Novels by Nevil Shute)
    Ruined City is a 1938 novel by Nevil Shute, published by Cassell in the UK. In the US, the book was published by William Morrow under the title Kindling...
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  • Pied Piper (novel) (category Novels by Nevil Shute)
    Pied Piper is a novel by Nevil Shute, first published in 1942. The title is a reference to the traditional German folk tale, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"...
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  • The Chequer Board (category Novels by Nevil Shute)
    The Chequer Board is a novel by Nevil Shute, first published in the United Kingdom in 1947 by William Heinemann Ltd. The novel deals with the question...
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    A Town Like Alice (film) (category Films based on works by Nevil Shute)
    and Peter Finch that is based on the 1950 novel of the same name by Nevil Shute. The film does not follow the whole novel, concluding at the end of part...
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  • A Town Like Alice (miniseries) (category Films based on works by Nevil Shute)
    Like Alice is a five-hour 1981 Australian television adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel of the same name. Produced by the Seven Network, and directed...
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    (previously called 'Rat Lane') and Nevil Shute Way, which are both named after the author Nevil Shute (Nevil Shute Norway) who was one of the founders...
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  • No Highway in the Sky (category Films based on works by Nevil Shute)
    Oscar Millard, and Alec Coppel, based on the 1948 novel No Highway by Nevil Shute. The film stars James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins...
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  • The Seafarers (novel) (category Novels by Nevil Shute)
    The Seafarers is a novella by Nevil Shute, written in the late 1940s but unpublished until 2002. Shute wrote the first draft of The Seafarers in 1946–47...
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  • In Northamptonshire: East Farndon West Farndon Fictional village in Nevil Shute's novel No Highway Farndon Road, Oxford This disambiguation page lists...
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