302:. When he started, he wrote that he was shocked to find that before building the R38 the civil servants concerned '"had made no attempt to calculate the aerodynamic forces acting on the ship"' but had just copied the size of girders in German airships. The calculations for just one transverse frame of the R100 could take two or three months, and the solution '"almost amounted to a religious experience." But later he wrote that '"the disaster was the product of the system rather than the men at Cardington"; the one thing that was proved is that "government officials are totally ineffective in engineering development" and any weapons (they develop) will be bad weapons. The R101 made one short test flight in perfect weather, and was given an airworthiness certificate for her flight to India to meet the minister’s deadline. Norway thought it probable that a new outer cover for the R101 was taped on with rubber adhesive which reacted with the dope. His account is very critical of the R101 design and management team, and strongly hints that senior team members were complicit in concealing flaws in the airship's design and construction. In
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Shute's novels are written in a simple, highly readable style, with clearly delineated plot lines. Where there is a romantic element, sex is referred to only obliquely. Many of the stories are introduced by a narrator who is not a character in the story. The most common theme in Shute's novels is the
1217:. The story of a young British woman who, plagued with guilt after shooting down a plane carrying Polish refugees in World War II, moves to Australia to work anonymously for the parents of her (now deceased) Australian lover, whilst the lover's brother searches for her in Britain. The title echoes
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1061:. A dying man looks up three wartime comrades, one of whom sees Burma during Japanese occupation and in its independence period after the war. The novel contains a discussion of racism in the US and in the US Army stationed in Britain: British townsfolk prefer the company of black soldiers.
1149:. A young woman travels to Australia. About the economic plight of Britain after WWII, in light of high wool prices providing prosperity to sheep farmers in Australia in the same period. A doctor condemns the National Health Service, another overcomes prejudice to operate.
719:. Remembering his 1930 trip to Canada and his decision to immigrate to Australia, he wrote, in 1954, "For the first time in my life I saw how people live in an English-speaking country outside England." Although he intended to remain in Australia, he did not apply for
1045:. The story of a dashing British naval Lieutenant and a Wren who meet right at the end of the Second World War. Their romance is blighted by differences in social background and economic constraints; in unhappiness each turns to odd jobs in boating circles.
1109:. The hero and heroine meet while both are prisoners of the Japanese in Malaya (now Malaysia). After the war they seek each other out and reunite in a small Australian town that would have no future if not for her plans to turn it into "a town like
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as his pen name, in order to protect his engineering career from inferences by his employers (Vickers) or from fellow engineers that he was "not a serious person" or from potentially adverse publicity in connection with his novels, which included
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British taxation", he decided that he and his family would move to Australia. In 1950, he settled with his wife and two daughters on farmland at
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sent him a message concluding "I am particularly pleased as it fully substantiates the foresight you showed in pushing this in its early stages. My congratulations."
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2060:– General Nevil Shute biographical information and extensive first edition collection tips
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750:"BIG Books" at the Nevil Shute Memorial Library, Alice Springs (2018).
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Parallel Motion – a biography of Nevil Shute Norway
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391:Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development
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1718:"Citizenship in Australia – Fact sheet 187"
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1983:Melbourne University Press, pp 498–499
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1967:The Paper Tiger, Creskill, NJ (2002)
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265:. While in Canada it made trips from
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2448:20th-century Australian male writers
2388:People educated at Shrewsbury School
2373:People educated at The Dragon School
1819:Alice Springs public library history
1724:from the original on 22 January 2013
1677:from the original on 7 December 2017
1647:from the original on 22 October 2023
754:Norway Road and Nevil Shute Road at
328:. A site was available in a former
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1775:from the original on 19 April 2014
1720:. National Archives of Australia.
1531:from the original on 14 July 2015.
1400:from the original on 19 April 2012
1394:"Photo Timeline: 1911–1920 page 2"
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1876:. Nevil Shute Norway Foundation.
1771:. Nevil Shute Norway Foundation.
1769:"Photo Timeline 1951–1960 page 5"
1488:. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser Boston.
1177:. London: William Heinemann Ltd.
874:against a group of Russian spies.
143:Shute was born in Somerset Road,
1757:from the original on 7 May 2008.
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2418:English emigrants to Australia
2368:Australian aerospace engineers
1667:"Nevil Shute Foundation—Title"
1555:Secret Weapons of World War II
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782:Modern Library 100 Best Novels
441:His first published novel was
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2168:What Happened to the Corbetts
1932:Haigh, Gideon (1 June 2007).
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919:What Happened to the Corbetts
756:Portsmouth Airport, Hampshire
384:Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
229:de Havilland Aircraft Company
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1293:allows nothing of the kind".
780:In the Readers' List of the
766:was subdivided for housing.
707:based on the trip, in 1950.
695:In 1948, Shute flew his own
416:on 6 June 1944 and later to
340:aircraft was chosen for the
277:. The fatal 1930 crash near
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2398:People of the Easter Rising
2363:English aerospace engineers
2070:Works by Nevil Shute Norway
1990:Nevil Shute, a bibliography
1899:Haigh, Gideon (June 2007).
1482:Squires, Arthur M. (1986).
866:. Published in the U.S. as
344:. With the approach of the
180:in 1916 at the time of the
178:General Post Office, Dublin
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2053:The Nevil Shute Foundation
1396:. Nevil Shute Foundation.
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365:Royal Aeronautical Society
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254:of the R100 project under
2433:Australian male novelists
2413:Suffolk Regiment soldiers
2312:Trustee from the Toolroom
2184:Landfall: A Channel Story
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2058:The Nevil Shute Book Page
1965:Nevil Shute: A Biography
1750:The Sydney Morning Herald
1494:10.1007/978-1-4757-1926-0
1314:Trustee from the Toolroom
1037:(1946–7, published 2002)
955:Landfall: A Channel Story
790:Trustee from the Toolroom
585:Landfall: A Channel Story
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691:Activities after the war
1992:Adelaide: Auslib Press
1934:"Shute's sands of time"
1828:Retrieved 29 April 2013
1577:Oxford University Press
990:(1942, published 1945)
810:(1923, published 1961)
410:Ministry of Information
167:Balliol College, Oxford
37:Shute, pictured in 1949
2358:English racing drivers
2288:Beyond the Black Stump
1988:Giffuni, Cathy (1988)
1671:Nevil Shute Foundation
1592:"Nevil Shute: profile"
1571:Murray, Scott (1996).
1368:Nevil Shute Foundation
1232:Beyond the Black Stump
1131:White Australia policy
868:The Mysterious Aviator
788:came in at number 17,
769:The public library in
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721:Australian citizenship
505:Beyond the Black Stump
389:So he ended up in the
332:garage on Piccadilly,
2017:Accessed 14 June 2007
1985:Accessed 14 June 2007
1824:28 April 2013 at the
1553:Gerald Pawle (1957),
1173:Shute, Nevil (1954).
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644:. Shute's 1952 novel
622:Australian television
550:and folk prophecy in
428:Shute's first novel,
380:Sir Dennistoun Burney
225:aeronautical engineer
116:aeronautical engineer
87:aeronautical engineer
77:, Victoria, Australia
1843:www.librarything.com
1472:, pp. 128, 129.
1279:wrote an article in
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671:Blind Understanding,
596:Crossing to Freedom,
60:, Middlesex, England
2393:Royal Navy officers
2005:The Daily Telegraph
1939:The Daily Telegraph
1868:Milgram, Shoshana.
1707:, pp. 113–114.
1629:. By Shute, Nevil.
1597:The Daily Telegraph
679:Blind Understanding
600:made-for-television
412:to send him to the
191:Shute attended the
147:(which was then in
2378:People from Ealing
2280:Requiem for a Wren
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1202:Requiem for a Wren
775:Northern Territory
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684:Requiem for a Wren
548:Buddhist astrology
322:A. Hessell Tiltman
219:Career in aviation
197:Royal Flying Corps
112:Nevil Shute Norway
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2224:The Chequer Board
2030:978-1-889439-37-2
1631:Paper Tiger Books
1557:(original title,
1503:978-0-8176-3312-7
1224:Requiem for a Nun
1215:The Breaking Wave
1167:British socialism
1094:A Town Like Alice
1050:The Chequer Board
786:A Town Like Alice
760:Berwick, Victoria
628:in 1997 starring
617:A Town Like Alice
552:The Chequer Board
493:The Chequer Board
414:Normandy Landings
307:Manhattan Project
213:1918 flu pandemic
163:Shrewsbury School
132:A Town Like Alice
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