Word: nevile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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British Novelist Nevil Shute, 59, who moved out to Australia in 1950, was back in London to stimulate sales of a new novel, see old friends, change a few attitudes. Five years ago, In the Wet set him up, after a long career in fiction, as the empire's most promising angry middle-aged man. Jumping 30 years into the future, Shute's 17th novel described a commonwealth of flourishing dominions (where citizens' merits could earn them extra votes) fettered by a mired-in-Socialism United Kingdom that approximates "a home for incurables." A tired, aging Queen...
...BEACH (320 pp.)-Nevil Shute-Morrow...
This is the situation as Author Nevil Shute (Pied Piper, The Breaking Wave) opens his 21st novel. To U.S. Commander Dwight Towers, who has brought his atom-powered submarine safely to port in Melbourne, the death in the north has no meaning. He still dreams of returning from duty to his wife and children in Mystic. Conn. A young Australian couple, Peter and Mary Holmes, use habit as an escape from the horror to come; they go on as they always have-sailing, giving parties, worrying when their small daughter has a sore throat or fever. Moira Davidson at first...
BEYOND THE BLACK STUMP (316 pp.)-Nevil Shufe-Morrow...
Britons are still apt to regard both Americans and Australians as colonials without much culture. In his eigth novel, British Author Nevil Shute has set up a kind of midget contest between these two "uncultivated" cultures. The contest arises when a bunch of American oilmen arrive in Australia's spinifex country (so named for its tough desert grass). The Australians are astounded by the Americans' ability to set up ice-cream plants in the desert, to work like madmen for oil in a country that probably lacks it and, anyway, needs water more. The Americans, in turn...