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11 4 y separately published work icon Beyond the Black Stump Nevil Shute , Melbourne : Heinemann , 1956 Z275102 1956 single work novel Set on a station in the North West of Western Australia, in Perth and in the USA. It is a curious patchwork of fiction, distortion, half-truth and social criticism ... And the honest history graduate from the University of Western Australia would have to agree that Mr Shute would do well to enrol as a student in the Department of History if he is not to perpetrate further travesties of the truth. (F. K. Crowley, Westerly No. 3 1956, pp41-3.)
8 4 y separately published work icon Murder Must Wait Arthur W. Upfield , 1954 Z1507440 1953 single work novel crime mystery detective
— Appears in: Vrazda musi pockat ; Vola kmena ; Prekliaty dom 1988; (p. Page numbers unavailable)
7 y separately published work icon Most Secret Nevil Shute , New York (City) : William Morrow , 1945 Z99008 1945 single work novel

'In their trusty fishing boat Genevieve, armed with a flame thrower and limited ammunition, a small group of officers and men take a stand against the might of the German army after the fall of France in World War II. This is classic Shute: at once a thrilling adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat, and a heartbreaking tale of the ravages of war.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (2009 Vintage ed.).
25 15 y separately published work icon A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute , London : Heinemann , 1950 Z564787 1950 single work novel

'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 her as well: the news that the young Australian soldier, Joe Harmon, who had risked his life to help the women, had miraculously survived. Jean’s search for Joe leads her to a desolate Australian outpost called Willstown, where she finds a challenge that will draw on all the resourcefulness and spirit that carried her through her war-time ordeals.' (Publication summary)
6 1 y separately published work icon The Mountains Have a Secret Arthur W. Upfield , New York (City) : Doubleday , 1948 Z202956 1948 single work novel crime detective
— Appears in: Detective Fiction , January vol. 1 no. 2 1949; (p. 43-64) 'Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte travels to Victoria, where two young women have disappeared while hiking in the Grampians. Not long after the search for the girls is called off, a local detective is found shot dead.

'Bony visits the hotel the women were last seen at, and meets the hotel's unsavoury proprietor. The resulting encounter propels Bony into an investigation which almosts costs him his life.' (Publication summary)

 
7 y separately published work icon Landfall : A Channel Story Nevil Shute , London : Heinemann , 1940 Z98803 1940 single work novel
6 6 y separately published work icon In the Wet Nevil Shute , Melbourne : Heinemann , 1953 Z27056 1953 single work novel science fiction 'It is the rainy season. 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 . . .'. Source: bookseller's website.
9 1 y separately published work icon Sinister Stones Arthur W. Upfield , New York (City) : Doubleday , 1954 Z1175739 1954 single work novel mystery crime
— Appears in: Trikrat Napoleon Bonaparte 1977; (p. Page numbers unavailable)
— Appears in: Sovremennyi avstraliiskii detektiv 1990;
27 44 y separately published work icon On the Beach Nevil Shute , Melbourne : Heinemann , 1957 Z125153 1957 single work novel science fiction (taught in 3 units)
— Appears in: Krysolov. Na Berugu 1991;

'After the war is over, a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards on the winds, gradually poisoning everything in its path. An American submarine captain is among the survivors left sheltering in Australia, preparing with the locals for the inevitable. Despite his memories of his wife, he becomes close to a young woman struggling to accept the harsh realities of their situation. Then a faint Morse code signal is picked up, transmitting from the United States and the submarine must set sail through the bleak ocean to search for signs of life.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (2009 Vintage ed.).
4 1 y separately published work icon The Will of the Tribe Arthur W. Upfield , London Melbourne : Heinemann , 1962 Z962007 1962 single work novel mystery detective crime
— Appears in: Vrazda musi pockat ; Vola kmena ; Prekliaty dom 1988; (p. Page numbers unavailable) This adventure of Inspector Napoleon (Bony) Bonaparte is set in North Western Australia; it deals with a corpse in a meteor crater and with vital information hidden behind the impassive mask of an aboriginal tribe, where only the half-black Bony has any hope of reaching it. The interplay between whites and blacks, from assimilated to wholly wild, is subtly and sensitively handled, and Bony emerges as one of the rare detective figures with genuine stature as a man. As in most Upfield novels, the geography, the geology and the cultural anthropology of Australia are living elements in the story (Cover, Collier 1984 ed.).
6 1 y separately published work icon Stephen Morris Nevil Shute , London : Heinemann , 1961 Z554506 1961 selected work novel
2 y separately published work icon Alfred Hitchcock Presents : Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV Alfred Hitchcock (editor), New York (City) : Simon and Schuster , 1957 6642808 1957 anthology short story horror thriller

'Twenty-five macabre tales to chill your blood.'
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