Nevil Shute
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Nevil Shute Norway was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name to protect
Shute in 1949
"BIG Books" at the Nevil Shute Memorial Library, Alice Springs (2018).
Trustee from the Toolroom
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Trustee from the Toolroom is a novel written by Nevil Shute. Shute died in January 1960; Trustee was published posthumously later that year.
Nevil Shute
…included On the Beach and A Town Like Alice. Shute was born in Somerset Road, Ealing (which was then in Middlesex), in the house described in his novel Trustee from the Toolroom. He was educated at the Dragon School, Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford; he graduated from Oxford in 1922 with a third-class degree in…
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