Nevil Shute originally published his novel On the Beach in 1957. Vintage International republished his book this past February. On the Beach depicts an emotional and psychological story about the ...

Not with a bang but a whimper. In 1958, on his 70th birthday, Eliot was asked whether he would consider writing these lines, probably his most quoted, again. His answer was both noteworthy and ...

Starring Geoffrey Matthews and Penelope Lee. Nevil Shute’s novel first published in 1940. Dramatised by Stephen Grenfell.

Nevil Schute wrote ON THE BEACH 12 years after the United States had dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945 but his 1957 novel foreshadowed a situation akin to the 1962 Cuban ...

Nevil Shute Norway was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name to protect ...