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	Nevil Shute
		Shute was educated as an aeronautical engineer and he used his expertise on technical issues and knowledge of aviation in his books.
		Shute was educated at schools in Oxford, Shrewsbury, and Woolwich.
		Shute expected to be accused of falsifying history and wrote in the author's note: "After the conquest of Malaya in 1942 the Japanese invaded Sumatra and quickly took the island.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /nshute.htm (1487 words)

	Nevil Shute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shute was a cousin of the Irish-American actress Geraldine Fitzgerald.
		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.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nevil_Shute (1586 words)

	Nevil Shute Novels And Characters
		Nevil Shute wrote 24 novels and an autobiography between 1924 and 1960.
		The following list of Nevil Shute books, by date of publication, is meant to describe the books only in sufficient detail to serve as a reminder of content to those who may have read them in the past, but forgotten the titles and to give a taste of the content of each story.
		All of Nevil Shute's Novels are currently in print and available, albeit a bit hard to locate at times.
	www.nevilshute.org /biblio.php (541 words)

	Biographical and Bibliographical note on Nevil Shute
		Nevil Shute Norway was born 17th January 1899 at Ealing, London, the youngest of two brothers and the son of a senior civil servant in the General Post Office.
		Nevil Shute had attended various schools in England including Shrewsbury and it was whilst on holiday from there that he was in Dublin during the Easter uprising in 1916, and acted as a stretcher bearer.
		Nevil Shute had become engaged to be married to Frances Heaton, a doctor at York Hospital and at the end of the R101 project, when he found himself unemployed and newly married, he decided to start an aeroplane manufacturing company (as one does!).
	www.abfar.co.uk /bibliogs/ns_bib.html (2240 words)

	Nevil Shute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		No highway is a 1948 novel by nevil shute, later forming the basis of a 1951 motion picture....
		On the beach is a post-apocalyptic end-of-the-world novel written by british author nevil shute after he had emigrated to australia....
		Shute's optimism is still present in a veiled form: he does not envision a violent breakdown in society, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/ne/nevil_shute.htm (2856 words)

	Nevil Shute; biography and bibliography of the acclaimed author (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Many years later nearly every one of Nevil Shute’s twenty-two novels is still in print, stunning testimony to his nationwide popularity; and each of these novels, plus his autobiography of his early life as an engineer, has appeared as a Pan paperback.
		Nevil Shute was working in the aircraft industry at the time, on the construction of His Majesty’s Airship ‘R100’;, and he devoted eighteen months of his evenings to the drudgery of writing the novel; all of it twice, and some of it three times.
		Nevil Shute Norway was born on 17 January 1899, to comfortably-off parents, and he enjoyed an impeccable schooling and upbringing.
	www.kruse.co.uk /shute.htm (2923 words)

	Style And Themes - Nevil Shute
		Shute left Vickers shortly afterward, and in 1931 founded the aircraft construction company Airspeed Ltd. In 1931 he married Francis Mary Heaton.
		The narrative backbone of a Nevil Shute novel usually involves the planning and execution of a complex and worthwhile mission, quest or enterprise.
		Shutes protagonists are, like J. Tolkiens Frodo, ordinary people on whom a responsibility has fallen.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /Acacia1327/nevil-shute-style-and-themes.html (1542 words)

	Remaindered with little honour in his adopted land - smh.com.au
		Shute - author of 24 books, seven set in Australia - was one of the best-selling novelists of the 20th century, and one of the most fascinating.
		Shute hated the film and not just because of the famous line falsely attributed to its star, Ava Gardner ("On The Beach is a story about the end of the world, and Melbourne sure is the place to film it" was an invention of former Herald journalist Neil Jillett).
		Shute never had any great illusions about his books, although he prided himself that they were never about heroes and villains, always about men and women overcoming challenges.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/07/24/1058853193968.html (873 words)

	Shute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Nevil Shute Norway spent part of the inter-war years as an engineer, and was involved in the construction of the R 100 airship, making two transatlantic flights aboard her.
		Shute names Jarrow, Sunderland, Gateshead and Wallsend as being in the area, and he was obviously familiar with Newcastle, which is mentioned several times, though not in any detail.
		Shute, in fact, shows very little gift for visual description in the book, but does show a powerful sympathy with the waste of human lives he sees in Sharples.
	online.northumbria.ac.uk /faculties/art/humanities/cns/m-shute2.html (340 words)

	Slide Rule (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Nevil Shute was a British writer, and in the year after World War II some of his novels became well-known the world over.
		As Nevil Shute Norway (his full name), his main occupation for twenty years was aeronautical engineering, as builder and designer of airplanes and airships.
		Shute was aboard and the book describes that flight, including some harrowing moments above the St. Lawrence River, when (for a few minutes) the R-100 was sucked helplessly upwards by a thunderstorm, the nemesis of airships.
	www.phy6.org /outreach/books/Shute.htm (798 words)

	Amazon.ca: In the Wet: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Nevil's description of the area and people in this area both during the dry season and 'in the wet' is startlingly full of life, a fine portrait that does much to illustrate some of Nevil's social commentary, which creeps in almost from the side, rarely directly presented.
		Nevil's characterization is always very strong, and his ability to show a slowly developing attraction is highly realistic and satisfying.
		Nevil is clearly pointing out the invalidity of judging people by race, and by extension he makes the point that all 'class' distinctions are artificial and, in the long run, detrimental.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0884113183 (1214 words)

	ibooknet Newsletter featuring Nevil Shute Norway by G. A. Michael Sims (A Book for all Reasons)
		Nevil Shute's next writing attempt, 'Marazan', an aerial drug smuggling story, was accepted and published in 1926.
		Nevil Shute had become engaged to be married to Frances Heaton, a doctor at York Hospital and at the end of the R100 project, when he found himself unemployed and newly married, he decided to start an aeroplane manufacturing company (as one does!).
		The peak for Shute was selling one of their aircraft, an Airspeed Envoy (left), to the King's Flight in 1937 but this had been at the cost of little home life with his wife and two daughters except for occasional weekend cruising in their yacht, Skerdmore.
	www.ibooknet.co.uk /archive/news_oct04.htm (2222 words)

	Nevil Shute Conference - The Paper Tiger Rare Books
		The Nevil Shute Norway Foundation is happy to announce the Nevil Shute Convention-OZ2001, a celebration of the life and works of Nevil Shute Norway.
		The afternoon excursion will include lunch at a local hotel or restaurant, a visit to the Nevil Shute home, a tour of St. Thomas Church, the construction of which was largely financed by Nevil Shute, and a brief memorial service, followed by tea.
		Copies of all Nevil Shute's unpublished manuscripts, including the book he was working on at the time of his death, will also be on display.
	www.papertig.com /ShuteConference.htm (1318 words)

	Amazon.com: On the Beach: Books: Nevil Shute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Nevil Shute's "On the Beach" was published in 1957, which was the same year that the Soviets launched Sputnik and Nikita Khrushchev boasted of a super bomb that could melt the polar icecaps.
		Shute quotes T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" on the title page with the famous lines "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper," and indeed the novel is not about surviving the war but awaiting the end of the world.
		There are those who complain that what little Shute has to saw about the war and its weapons of mass destruction does not make sense, but as was the case with the television movie "The Day After" such concerns are negligible because both narratives need the war to allow them to tell their stories.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345311485?v=glance (2466 words)

	Shute, Nevil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		'Shute' resigned from de Havilland in 1924 in order to work on the abortive R100 airship project, which was subsequently suspended in 1930 when a rival airship suffered an ill-starred calamity.
		'Shute' involved in starting another company which manufactured aircraft, Airspeed Ltd, where he held the position of managing dorector until 1938 when the popularity of his two novels (1928) and (1932) persuaded him to become a full-time author.
		Shute was married to a successful Medical Practitioner and has a daughter, Shirley Norway.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/S/shutenevil/1.html (232 words)

	Nevil Shute Norway Foundation Home Page
		It is a tribute to his skill that more than 40 years after his death, Nevil Shute's works are still enjoyed by so many people around the world.
		Those interested in researching specific aspects of Nevil Shute's life and work will find the site an excellent place to start.
		Writings, reviews, comments, biographies, pictures and other information regarding Nevil Shute and the Foundation may be found by clicking on the links at left.
	www.nevilshute.org (158 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: No Highway: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Shute is perhaps the best known of English authors of the 20th century concerning tales with an aviation bias.
		For fans of Shute might I suggest that you try John Templeton Smith's "White Lie" and "Saigon Express", which in their own way carry on a tradition of the best of British.
		Nevil Shute has been an author with whom I can always rely on, and this book does not dissapoint.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1842322737 (560 words)

	No. 110: Nevil Shute
		The author was Nevil Shute Norway, born in England in 1899.
		Shute's books are low-key, but his plots are assembled like Swiss watches -- every piece fits perfectly, and you simply can't put one down after you're 50 pages into it.
		The Shute books mentioned here have been reprinted by different publishers and even under various titles.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi110.htm (481 words)

	TomFolio.com: by Nevil SHUTE
		Shute, Nevil ON THE BEACH Publisher: William Morrow New York 1957.
		Shute, Nevil RAINBOW AND THE ROSE Publisher: William Morrow New York, NY 1958.
		Shute, Nevil ON THE BEACH Publisher: William Morrow New York NY 1957.
	www.tomfolio.com /SearchAuthorTitle.asp?Aut=Nevil_SHUTE (694 words)

	Shute, Nevil on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		SHUTE, NEVIL [Shute, Nevil] (Nevil Shute Norway), 1899-1960, English novelist, b.
		Shute wrote 26 novels and was one the best-selling novelists of his era.
		Books: A Word in your ear; Marazan by Nevil Shute read by David Collins Chivers, 7hrs 36 mins, pounds 14.95 mail order: 0800 136 919.(Features)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/s/shute-n1e.asp (195 words)

	eBay - nevil shute, Fiction Books, Antiquarian Collectible items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Nevil Shute - On the Beach - 1st PB
		Nevil Shute - Requiem for a Wren - 1st PB
		NEVIL SHUTE IN THE WET H/B D/J 1954
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=nevil+shute&newu=1&krd=1 (505 words)

	Economic Thinking: Books
		Nevil Shute's novels are back in print in quality paperbacks.
		Slide Rule is Shute's autobiography and includes his experiences as a designer and executive in the aircraft industry.
		Slide Rule also tells of Shute's involvement with the tragic R100 vs. R101 experiment carried out by the English government (government vs. private enterprise in the airship industry see separate article on this historical event here).
	www.economicthinking.org /books/fiction.html (322 words)

	No. 1159: Nevil Shute's Ordeal
		Shute foresaw a long war of aerial assault and human misery coming.
		When the family meets naval officers along the way, they find the military as ignorant of conditions on shore as civilians are ignorant about the war itself.
		England proved better prepared to serve its civilian population than Shute had expected, and civilian morale was far stronger.
	www.uh.edu /admin/engines/epi1159.htm (493 words)

	Review of Nevil Shute's On the Beach
		Peter is clearly one of the main characters and a lens that Shute uses to examine the coming of the end.
		In a smaller peeve, I was disturbed that Shute seemed to be blaming the nuclear war on the irresponsible little nations.
		Shute shows us the final end of humanity, while Miller shows us the cycle of destruction that may be inherent in all of us.
	www.challengingdestiny.com /reviews/onthebeach.htm (803 words)

	John Fowles' Nevil Shute Page
		At the time our main concern was with the quality/amount of "food" as "cooked" by the headmaster's daughter and the constant nagging by older boys to whom us youngsters were allocated as "fags/slaves" in an old barbaric custom then known by the term fagging.
		Furthermore her eagle eye when perusing the Nevil Shute Foundation site spotted that there is a Nevil Shute Society Club chapter in Montclair New Jersey only a few miles from our home.
		Also of interest is the fact that Nevil was active during the Second World War devising a range of special weapons to fight he Germans with and I have written a page about one of these the great Panjandrum as described in a BBC book
	www.johnfowles.org.uk /nevilshute (604 words)

	Mr Norway
		Nevil Shute Norway chose to write under a shortened version of his name.
		Needless to say, not only were all her copies of the Shute books autographed, they were hard back first editions as well.
		And while she taught me to be a secretary and helped me with my shorthand and typing, she could never have been described as a nanny.
	delarue.net /norway.htm (1979 words)

	Nevil Shute Society Colorado Chapter
		The Colorado Chapter of the Nevil Shute Society was founded in Australia where six Colorado residents met in March 2001 at the Nevil Shute Foundation Gathering (OZ2001).
		This Nevil Shute book review will be "Far Country" Directions and potluck items will be sent out by Donna in early March.
		Please visit the Nevil Shute display at the Columbine Library in Littleton, Co Next Nevil Shute (other book) Club meeting will be an excursion to a local theater in May 2006 to view "The Di Vinci Code" movie with actor Tom Hanks, Director Ron Howard.
	hometown.aol.com /gac29 (229 words)

	A Shameless Plug for Paper Tiger - THE FORUM for Ayn Rand Fans
		Nevil Shute, however, is more, much more, than that.
		That’s because for Nevil Shute the universal theme of mankind, the same theme found among his best works, is that of man’s moral efficacy in reality.
		Shute is a maestro; and Landfall a mounting melody marking boldly the nobility — the moral efficacy — of man.
	forums.4aynrandfans.com /index.php?showtopic=784 (856 words)

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