Nevil Shute was a writer whose books were looked down on by literary critics and yet when he died he was one of the best selling novelists of his day. Books such as A Town Like Alice and On the Beach still attract new generations of fans and unlike others of his era his novels are still in print. However there was far more to the man than his books
Nevil Shute was a writer whose books were looked down on by literary critics and yet when he died he was one of the best selling novelists of his day....