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Nevil Shute
1) On the beach
Author
Description
"Set in Australia following a brief but catastrophic war in the Northern hemisphere, Nevil Shute's classic bestseller is the unforgettable story of a handful of survivors awaiting their deaths in the terrifying aftermath of nuclear apocalypse."
3) In the wet
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1953
Description
An old man lies dying during the rainy season in the Queensland outback. And in the night, slipping in and out of an opium sleep that drifts him towards death, he draws his listener into a tale that opens onto incredible horizons.
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1960
Description
Keith Stewart, a retiring and ingenious engineer, could not have been happier in his little house in the shabby London suburb of Ealing. There he invented the mini-motor, the six-volt generator, and the tiny Congreve clock. Then a chain of events sweeps him into deep waters and leads him to his happiest discovery yet.
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1955
Description
Allan had been away from Coombaragana, flying in the Royal Air Force. Now he has returned, wounded and disillusioned, to his ancestral home. Days before, Jessie Proctor had taken her own life. Why? Allan looked at the young face in the photograph in Jessie's passport and froze. He knew who she really was.
7) Pastoral
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow and Company
Pub. Date
1944
Description
She was from the hills of Yorkshire, country born and bred. He was a city boy. By the stream where they fished, they were two young people falling in love. Overhead, the bombers roared, threatening to blow their idyllic world, so young, so fresh, to smithereens.
Series
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Nurse Jean Paget is one of a small band of women trekking through the Japanese-occupied Malayan jungle, where they are befriended by Joe Harman, a tough Australian P.O.W. Later each learns that the other has survived the horrors of the war, and they set out separately to find each other.
14) On the beach
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Radioactive fallout from a nuclear war has wiped out the entire northern hemisphere. Australia is the only civilized area spared from destruction. With fallout expected momentarily, the Australians review their lives, establish new relationships and prepare for their tragic demise.
