2013
Search results
Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 1899 – 12 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia.
Nevil Shute (born January 17, 1899, Ealing, Middlesex, England—died January 12, 1960, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) was an English-born novelist who showed a special talent for weaving his technical knowledge of engineering into the texture of his fictional narrative.
BIOGRAPHIES: There are now four biographies of Nevil Shute. His autobiography "SlideRule: The Autobiography of an Engineer ". Julian Smith's 1976 book "Nevil Shute". "Parallel Motion; a biography of Nevil Shute Norway" by John Anderson, published by Paper Tiger in 2011. For more information about this book click here.
An English novelist who later spent much of his time in Australia, the author Nevil Shute Norway, or simply Nevil Shute as he went by his pen-name, was primarily known for his books that tackled everyday issues such as work, race and social-barriers.
Few people may be aware of the multifaceted life of Nevil S Norway, better known as Nevil Shute, a popular novelist of the latter half of the last century. Nevil Shute Norway. Born on 17 January 1899 in Ealing, a suburb to the west of London, Nevil Shute Norway was the younger son of Arthur Norway and his wife Mary (nee Gadsden).
NORWAY, NEVIL SHUTE (1899-1960), novelist under the name NEVIL SHUTE and aeronautical engineer, was born in Ealing on 17th January 1899, the younger son of a Cornishman, Arthur Hamilton Norway, who became an assistant secretary of the General Post Office, and his wife Mary Louisa Gadsden.
A Town Like Alice (United States title: The Legacy) is a romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia.
Nevil Shute has 93 books on Goodreads with 279382 ratings. Nevil Shute’s most popular book is A Town Like Alice.
On the Beach is an apocalyptic novel published in 1957, written by British author Nevil Shute after he emigrated to Australia. The novel details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the Northern Hemisphere, following a nuclear war some years ...
Nevil Shute Norway (1899-1960), writer and aeronautical engineer, was born on 17 January 1899 at Ealing, London, second child of Arthur Hamilton Norway, a clerk in the General Post Office, and his wife Mary Louisa, née Gadsden.
