When Peter Moran picks up a man on the roadside while driving through a bitter rainy night, he embarks upon an adventure that will lead him into treasonous international plots, flying adventures and tests of both his bravery and loyalty.

Nevil Shute (1899 – 1960) was a British novelist and aeronautical engineer.This collection contains 22 of his novels:MarazanSo Disdained (aka The Mysterious Aviator)Lonely RoadRuined City (aka Kindling)What Happened to the Corbetts (aka Ordeal)An Old CaptivityLandfall, A Channel StoryPied PiperMost SecretPastoralThe Chequer BoardNo HighwayA Town Like Alice (aka The Legacy)Round the Ben...

This is a pastoral idyll of a bomber base! The bomber crew who are the central characters are ardent, though rather amateurish, fishermen, from the pilot captain down. Their enthusism has been one factor welding them into a team that has accomplished some fifty odd operations, virtually unscathed. Enter Gervase, homesick WAAF officer, who puts her job first but finds her heart won by the pilot's ingenuous admiration, and gives him 'the gate' - at cost to them both. A charmingly told tale o...

From the hugely acclaimed author of On the Beach—a tale of love and war that follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback. • “Entertaining ... Dramatic ... Shute is a natural and effective story-teller.” —The New York TimesJean 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 oth...

Icelandic & American legend of Lief Ericson & Eric the Red, & the voyages to Massachusetts Bay.

This collector's edition is cleanly formatted for easy reading. 12 point Garamond, 1.15 spacing. A Town Like Alice is a romance and adventure novel. It tells the story of Jean Paget, an Englishwoman living in Malaya who is captured by the invading Japanese during World War II. She is taken on a brutal death march with dozens of other women and children. After the war, when Jean is back in England, an unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to help the villagers who saved he...

Nevil Shute’s most powerful novel—a bestseller and a post-apocalyptic fiction classic for decades after its 1957 publication—is an unforgettable vision of a dystopian future in the aftermath of World War III.**“The most haunting evocation we have of a world...after an atomic war.” —**The New York TimesAfter a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in southern Australia await the radioacti...

Keith Stewart is a quiet and unassuming man called upon to undertake an extraordinary task. A skilled maker of miniature working models, he lives a modest life devoted to his hobby. But when his sister and her wealthy husband die in a shipwreck on a coral reef in the Pacific—while trying to smuggle out of England their entire fortune in diamonds hidden in the keel of their yacht—Keith becomes trustee for his orphaned niece. To save her from destitution he must travel halfway around the wor...

An Old Captivity - about a young airman, an Oxford don, and his beautiful daughter who, on an expedition to the Arctic, are transported by explorers of another age - the Norsemen and their longships of a thousand years before - in Greenland.

The story concerns a young American geologist, Stanton Laird, working in the Australian outback in the field of oil exploration. Although he is in a very remote location - beyond the black stump - in a region called "the Lunatic" in Western Australia, he is part of a crew that has a well-appointed mobile facility.He is befriended by a local farming family, the Regans, and develops a relationship with their daughter Mollie. The Regans run an enormously profitable station, but their domestic...

Theodore Honey is a scientist with an interest in the paranormal and a job testing metal fatigue in aircraft. When a new transatlantic plane, the Reindeer, is found to have crashed in Labrador, Theodore believes he knows why. The scientist is sent to the scene of the crash. En route to Canada Theodore learns he is flying in a Reindeer and is in danger.

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 Mal...