![]() Also his autobiography of the years before 1938, Slide Rule (1954), was produced during this last period of his life. ![]() Notable among his Australian novels are above all A Town Like Alice (1950), Round the Bend (1951), The Far Country (1952), In the Wet (1953), Beyond the Black Stump (1956), and On the Beach (1957). In the late 1940s the novelist decided to move to Australia with his family. His most important works produced until after World War II are Ruined City (1938 published as Kindling in the USA), What Happened to the Corbetts (1939), Pied Piper (1942), Pastoral (1944), The Chequer Board (1947), and No Highway (1948). From 1938 on Nevil Shute wrote full-time and prolifically. By then he had already published three novels: Marazan (1926), So Disdained (1928), and Lonely Road (1932). After his engineering studies he worked as an aeronautical engineer until 1938, when he decided to retreat from his own (highly successful) aircraft construction company. ![]() Nevil Shute, in full Nevil Shute Norway, was born in London, England, U.K., in January 1899. ![]()
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