Bøger af Nevil Shute

When Tom Cutter hires Constantine Shaklin as an engineer in his air freight business, he little realises the extraordinary gifts of his new recruit. As Cutter's business grows across Asia, so does Shaklin's fame, until he is widely regarded as a unifying deity.

Den unge Royal Air Force pilot Jerry er på bombetogt og får ram på en u-båd i den Engelske Kanal. Ved hjemkomsten meldes en engelsk u-båd savnet - og Jerry mistænkes for at have bombet sine egne ved en frygtelig fejlbedømmelse.Krigsretten frikender Jerry, men mistanken klæber til ham, og han søger forflyttelse. Kun én tror på Jerrys uskyld - pigen Mona, som han har mødt på en bar.Under en prøveflyvning styrter Jerry ned og kvæstes livsfarligt. Igen er det Mona, der tror på Jerrys fremtid. Men kan hun også redde ham fra de fortidsskygger, der truer Jerrys lyst til at leve videre - og vil han vælge Mona som andet og mere end "pigen i baren"?idden /title /head body center h1 403 Forbidden /h1 /center /body /htmlNevil Shute (1899-1960) var en britisk forfatter, som ved siden af sin forfatterkarriere var uddannet ingeniør og deltog i begge verdenskrige. Han skrev sin første roman, "Stephen Morris" i 1923, men den blev først udgivet i 1961, og Shutes første udgivne roman blev derfor i stedet "Marazan", der udkom i 1926. Shutes tydelige plots og sans for den gode historie gjorde ham i stigende grad til en populær forfatter, og mange af hans romaner blev efterfølgende fortolket af andre medier; både i form af film, tv-miniserier og radioprogrammer.

Da den stille modelbygger og tidsskriftsredaktør Keith Stewart får forældremyndigheden over sin 10-årige niece, bliver det samtidig startskuddet på en eventyrlig skattejagt i Stillehavet. Keith finder nemlig ud af, at pigens forældre havde gemt et skrin med diamanter i lasten på den yacht, de gik ned med. Den ligger nu på bunden af havet i Fransk Polynesien, men da man ikke ligefrem bliver rig af jobbet som redaktør på et hobbymagasin, må Keith have hjælp af venner og modelbyggere fra hele verden for at nå frem til vraget.idden /title /head body center h1 403 Forbidden /h1 /center /body /htmlNevil Shute (1899-1960) var en britisk forfatter og flyingeniør. En del af hans romaner handler om tiden under og efter Anden Verdenskrig og er præget af troen på et kommende stærkt Commonwealth. Nevil Shute levede de sidste ti år af sit liv i Australien.

Kaptajn Stenning tog den forkerte beslutning under nødlandingen. Maskinen blev knust , og hvis ikke den undvegne straffefange Denis Compton var dukket op, havde Stenning ikke overlevet. Nu var han parat til at række den mand, der havde reddet hans liv, en hjælpende hånd, selv om han derved satte sig ud over loven og domstolen.Compton bad om nogle få dages frist, dels af hensyn til Joan, den kvinde, der stolede på ham, dels af hensyn til den mission, han havde at udføre ved Cornwalls farlige kyst ...idden /title /head body center h1 403 Forbidden /h1 /center /body /htmlNevil Shute (1899-1960) var en britisk forfatter og flyingeniør. En del af hans romaner handler om tiden under og efter Anden Verdenskrig og er præget af troen på et kommende stærkt Commonwealth. Nevil Shute levede de sidste ti år af sit liv i Australien.

I Australien møder den unge, amerikanske geolog Stanton Laird, der er i landet for at lede efter olie, familien Regans datter Mollie. De to ønsker snart at gifte sig, men Mollies mor insisterer på, at Mollie først rejser med Stanton til hans hjemby Hazel i Oregon for at se, hvordan livet er der. Det skal vise sig, at de to har meget forskellige syn på livet.idden /title /head body center h1 403 Forbidden /h1 /center /body /htmlNevil Shute (1899-1960) var en britisk forfatter og flyingeniør. En del af hans romaner handler om tiden under og efter Anden Verdenskrig og er præget af troen på et kommende stærkt Commonwealth. Nevil Shute levede de sidste ti år af sit liv i Australien.

Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1954.

INCLUDES THE NOVEL PILOTAGEStephen Morris has just called off his engagement to the girl of his dreams because he is a penniless graduate with no prospects. These two early novels draw on Nevil Shute's own experiences as a young engineer.

Through a series of mishaps, Henry Warren, a recently divorced City financier, ends up in hospital in a Northern town ruined by the closure of its shipyard. Moved by the fate of the town's inhabitants, Warren risks his fortune and reputation to save the shipyard and restore the town to its former prosperity.

Young pilot Donald Ross has little in common with the Oxford don who has employed him on an expedition to the Arctic - and still less with his beautiful but stubborn daughter, Alix.But once the three of them reach the treacherous shores of Greenland their destinies are inextricably bound by the events that unfold there.

After Philip Stenning is involved in a near-fatal plane crash, he feels he owes a debt of gratitude to the man who rescued him. However, his mysterious saviour is an escaped convict, and his determination to help him leads Stenning into a tense and dramatic adventure of intrigue, drug-running and murder.

Jerry Chambers, a fresh-faced young pilot, mistakenly sinks a British submarine. He is reprimanded and sent to a remote posting to test an experimental new bomb, a dangerous mission far away from the girl he loves. While Jerry risks his life, his sweetheart Mona sets about clearing her lover's name...but will she be too late?

It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his deserted shack and listens to his last words. Half-awake and half-dreaming the old man tells the story of an adventure set decades in the future, in a very different world...

John Turner, a young man with a chequered past, has been told he has just one year to live. He decides to use his time in search of three very different men he met briefly during the war: an snobbish British pilot, a young corporal accused of murder, and a black G.I.

If somewhere is 'beyond the black stump' it means it is in the deepest darkest wilds of the Australian outback. However, when Mollie travels to America to visit him the couple realise that their differences in background make their plans for a future together hard to realise.

Nevil Shute wrote this prophetic novel just before the start of the Second World War. In it he describes the devastation that results from an aerial bomb attack on Southampton that destroys the city's infrastructure and leaves the inhabitants at the mercy of cholera and further assaults.

The mysterious death of a young woman on an Australian farm reveals a bittersweet story of doomed wartime romance amidst a family crisis. Alan Duncan returns to his family home in Australia after the war and several years of study in England.

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

Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling novelist. This autobiography charts Shute's path from childhood to his career as a gifted aeronautical engineer working at the forefront of the technological experimentation of the 1920s and 30s.

Nevil Shute's classic Second World War novel is an uplifting, satisfying and moving story. John Howard is determined to brighten up his old age by taking a fishing trip to France.

Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that leads to the deaths of many.

Nuclear war has destroyed all life in thenorthern countries of the world. Now the deadly radiation is travelling south. In Australia, where people are still alive, Peter and Mary Holmes are trying to live their lives as normally as possible as the radiation comes closer and closer. What can they do? Is this the end of life on earth?