
Nevil Shute (1899 – 1960) was a British novelist and aeronautical engineer. This collection contains 22 of his novels: Marazan So Disdained (aka The Mysterious Aviator) Lonely Road Ruined City (aka Kindling) What Happened to the Corbetts (aka Ordeal) An Old Captivity Landfall, A Channel Story Pied Piper Most Secret Pastoral The Chequer Board No Highway A Town Like Alice (aka The Legacy) Round the Bend The Far Country In the Wet Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer Requiem for a Wren (aka The Breaking Wave) Beyond the Black Stump On the Beach The Rainbow and the Rose Trustee from the Toolroom