Nevil Shute

Keith Stewart, a retiring and ingenious engineer, could not have been happier in his little house in the shabby London suburb of Ealing....

She was from the hills of Yorkshire, country born and bred. He was a city boy....

Australia is one of the last places where life still exists after nuclear war starts. A year on, an invisible cloak of radiation has spread almost completely around the world....

Eight hundred women and children begin a 1,200-mile journey on foot across Japanese-occupied Malaya....

Life in the Corbett family turned upside down when the first German bombs struck their well-ordered street....

An old man lies dying during the rainy season in the Queensland outback....

When Stanton Laird, American geologist, goes prospecting for the Topeka Exploration Company in the savage Australian outback, he finds something a good deal more precious than oil....

Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins....

A war no one fully understands has devastated the planet with radioactive fallout from massive cobalt bombing....

Allan had been away from Coombaragana, flying in the Royal Air Force. Now he has returned, wounded and disillusioned, to his ancestral home....