Nevil Shute s most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback.
Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her. However, an unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to give something back to the villagers who saved her life. But it turns out that they have a gift for...

One of Nevil Shute s most exciting novels, Pied Piper is the gripping story of one elderly man's daring attempt to rescue a group of children during the Nazi invasion of France.
It is the spring of 1940 and John Sidney Howard wants nothing more than to enjoy his fishing holiday in southern France in peace and quiet. However, the Nazi conquest of the Low Countries puts an end to that, and he is asked by friends to take their two children back to England. Crossing France with his young charges seems simple enough at first until the Germans invade, rendering them fugitives. As Howard...

"Grips the reader . . . The story has pace and excitement, unforced sentiment and wholly unaffected gaiety." - "Times Literary Supplement"
"He knows how to build a story mounting page by page in suspense . . . a thriller if ever there was one, and a classic thriller at that." - "New York Times"
"Admirably written . . . full of drama and good humour." - "Evening Standard"
As wartime assignments go, Jerry Chambers doesn't have it too bad. By day he flies routine patrols over the English Channel, leaving his nights free for drinking and dancing with his girlfriend, the lovely...

"Keeps you pegging away, page after page, unwilling to put the book down." - "New York Times"
"Mr. Shute knows how to pick astonishing stories and how to keep them moving on non-stop tracks." - "New Republic"
"Excellent entertainment, varied and unusual." - Basil Davenport, "Saturday Review of Literature"
Donald Ross is a young pilot, out of work and in desperate need of a job. So, despite the extreme danger involved, he jumps at the chance to fly Oxford professor Cyril Lockwood and his daughter Alix to the frozen wilds of Greenland to study Viking ruins. But the perils of the...