Selected Works: A Town Like Alice / Pied Piper / The Far Country / The Chequer Board / No Highway

by Nevil Shute

Omnibus contains;
A Town Like Alice.
Pied Piper.
The Far Country.
The Chequer Board
No Highway

Genres: Fiction

924 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1952

About the author

Nevil Shute Norway was a popular British novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer.

He used Nevil Shute as his pen name, and his full name in his engineering career, in order to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels.

He lived in Australia for the ten years before his death.

Reviews

[Mary Frances · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really like Nevil Shute. He's very down to earth and a pleasure to read. Venture beyond " On The Beach " and give him a try. I especially like "A Town Like Alice" and The Trustee from the Toolroom" but am enamored right now of "The Pied Piper" which I am currently readin as part of this omnibus.

[Valerie]

Loved this book! Why had I never heard of it!

[Ricky Patten]

Just started to read ... A Town Like Alice

For me an Australian, I have been looking forwards to reading this for sometime.

[Ray Noyes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Taken overall and applying today's cynicism I suppose it's a pretty unlikely outcome to this story, but what a fascinating journey Shute takes on in order to get there! A warm, delicately crafted narrative, with an ending that left me feeling very satisfied.

[Anne · Rating 2 out of 5]

I loved this book (A Far Country) at the beginning. I picked it up because "A Town Like Alice" is one of my favorites. A subplot developed about 2/3 of the way in that was stupid and really derailed the story for me. Set in Australia and England, you do get a sense of the terrible toll that WWII took on England and it's people - well after the war had ended.