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Nevil Shute Norway was born on 17 January 1899 in Ealing, London. After attending the Dragon School and Shrewsbury School, he studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. He worked as an aeronautical engineer and published his first novel, Marazan, in 1926. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they went on to have two daughters. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons. After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his death on 12 January 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), No Highway (1948), A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957).
Mr Shute not only writes vividly and excitingly of occupied France, but with a delightful understanding of children * Sunday Times * A small masterpiece...a book about frail but indomitable old age, simple kindness, childhood, and courage in dark confusing danger. It is not sentimental but prosaic and suspenseful on every page...it conjures up the country of the 1940's, and gently acclaims the value of ordinary decency in wicked times -- Libby Purves A brilliantly descriptive writer, a master of suspense -- David Holloway Exhibits his talents at their provocative best * New York Times * That shattering, unaffected, literary style of his is wholly deceptive...is, in fact, masterly -- H.E. Bates Remarkable books...I share a fierce personal regard for Nevil Shute -- Richard Bach
