What Happened to the Corbetts

An aerial bomb attack on Southampton destroys the city’s infrastructure and leaves the inhabitants at the mercy of cholera and further assaults. This story follows the trials and tribulations of the Corbett family as they try to get to safety in the midst of the devastation.

SHUTE, NEVIL

Literature & Fiction

Vintage Classics

When his sister’s boat is wrecked in the Pacific, Keith Steward becomes the trustee for his little niece. In order to save her from destitution he has to embark on a voyage in a small yacht in inhospitable waters.

Trustee from the Toolroom

Contemporary

Beyond the Black Stump

The deepest darkest wilds of the Austrailan outback is the sun-baked setting for Nevil Shute’s novel of a romance that is tested by the differences between two young people’s home lives.

Genre Fiction

THE CHEQUER BOARD

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: a snobbish British pilot, a young corporal accused of murder, and a GI accused of attempted rape. He learns about forgiveness, tolerance and second chances.

The Chequer Board

The Far Country

A young English woman leaves her aging parents to visit friends living in the Australian outback. She falls in love, both with the country and with Carl. Brought together through dramatic encounters and strange twists of fate, their relationship hangs in the balance when she is called back to England.

In the Wet

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.

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 who has set about clearing his name.

Landfall

Lonely Road

A rich middle-aged man finds his lonely life turned upside down when he falls in love with a pretty dance hostess and becomes involved in exposing a conspiracy to sabotage the British General Election. His dogged pursuit of the criminals will throw his life into grave danger.

LONELY ROAD

Marazan

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. 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.

Most Secret

In their trusty fishing boat, Genevieve, armed with only a flame thrower and limited ammunition, a small group of officers and men take a stand against the might of the German army after the fall of France in World War II.

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