Shute prophetically describes how the war would affect a town like Southampton. Peter Corbett and his family live in Southampton, one of the first cities to be heavily bombed. The family endures hardships of isolation and forced independence.

When his sister's boat is wrecked in the Pacific, Keith Steward becomes the trustee for his little niece. In order to save her from destitution he has to embark on a voyage in a small yacht in inhospitable waters.

Stanton Laird comes to the Australian outback to search for oil. There he meets and falls in love with Mollie. However cultural differences between Stanton and Mollie's world force the two lovers to make difficult decisions.

John Turner, who has had a head injury in an air crash, is told that he has only a year to live. He decides to use his time to search for three very different men he met briefly during the war. Along the way he learns about forgiveness, tolerance and second chances.

This romance tells the story of a young English woman's holiday in the Australian outback just after World War II. There she meets an older doctor, a displaced person from Europe. Their friendship teaches them about themselves and their adopted home.

Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his deserted shack and listens to his last words. Half-awake and half-dreaming the old man tells the story of an adventure set decades in the future, in a very different world.

This is a romantic WWII adventure about the strength of true love and how it can overcome any obstacle. A British air reconnaissance officer falls for a pub waitress, but finds his life in chaos when he accidently bombs a British U-boat.

Genevieve is a converted French fishing boat, manned by British officers and a small crew of free French ex-fishermen, armed only with a flame-thrower and a few arms. They carry out their daring attack on German boats off the Brittany coast.

Theodore Honey is a scientist with an interest in the paranormal and a job testing metal fatigue in aircraft. When a new transatlantic plane is found to have crashed in Labrador, Honey believes he knows why.

A young airman, an Oxford don and his beautiful daughter are on an expedition to the Arctic. This time-travel story tells how they are transported by explorers of another age: the Norsemen and their longships of a thousand years before.