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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A Town Like Alice (redirect from The Legacy (Shute novel))
(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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Arthur Hamilton was also a writer, and his son was the novelist Nevil Shute. Nevil Shute paid his grandmother the compliment of borrowing the name of one...
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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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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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Plural voting (section Nevil Shute's In The Wet)
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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Marazan (category Novels by Nevil Shute)
Marazan is the first published novel by the British author Nevil Shute. It was originally published in 1926 by Cassell & Co, then republished in 1951...
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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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Landfall (1949 film) (category Films based on works by Nevil Shute)
It is based on the 1940 novel Landfall: A Channel Story, written by Nevil Shute. Rick, a British Coastal Command pilot in World War II based near Portsmouth...
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Marcus Clarke (doctor) (section Nevil Shute)
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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Far Country (novel) (category Novels by Nevil Shute)
The Far Country is a novel by Nevil Shute, first published in 1952. In this novel, Shute has some harsh things to say about the new (British) National...
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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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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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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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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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bought by Vickers for the construction of the airship R100. The author Nevil Shute Norway was part of the team that created the R100, working under Barnes...
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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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receives more then 120,000 visitors every year. While officially named the 'Nevil Shute Memorial Library', the name is little used. A number of small libraries...
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