![]() ![]() He peered down at the mat and poked it with his umbrella. He tripped over the door mat as he went in and stumbled forward the hall porter jumped out and caught him by the elbow. He was just entering the club ahead of me, a tall and rather emaciated man of about seventy, a little unsteady on his feet. ![]() I came in for dinner that night at about eight o’clock, tired after a long day of conferences about my aspect of the war. His name is John Sidney Howard, and he is a member of my club in London. The Breaking Wave (UK title, Requiem for a Wren) Ordeal (UK title, What Happened to the Corbetts) The Mysterious Aviator (UK title, So Disdained) His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), A Town Like Alice (1950), and On the Beach (1957). After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his death in 1960. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they had two daughters. In his spare time he began writing and published his first novel, Marazan, in 1926, using the name Nevil Shute to protect his engineering career. ![]() Following his childhood passion, he entered the fledgling aircraft industry as an aeronautical engineer working to develop airships and, later, airplanes. He studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. Nevil Shute Norway was born in 1899 in Ealing, London. ![]()
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