EAN: 9780099530251

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Nevil Shute was born on 17 January 1899 in Ealing London. After attending the Dragon School and Shrewsbury School he studied Engineering Science at Balliol College Oxford. He worked as an aeronautical engineer and published his first novel Marazan in 1926. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they went on to have two daughters. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons. After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his death on 12 January 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942) No Highway (1948) A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957).

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