Editing Nevil Shute (section)

== Works ==
* ''[[Stephen Morris (novel)|Stephen Morris]]'' (1923, published 1961) {{ISBN|1-84232-297-4}} (with ''Pilotage''). A young pilot takes on a daring and dangerous mission.
* ''[[Pilotage (novel)|Pilotage]]'' (1924, published 1961): a continuation of ''Stephen Morris''.
* ''[[Marazan]]'' (1926) {{ISBN|1-84232-265-6}}. A convict rescues a downed pilot who helps him break up a drug ring.
* ''[[So Disdained]]'' (1928) {{ISBN|1-84232-294-X}}. Published in the U.S. as ''The Mysterious Aviator'', and written soon after the General Strike of 1926, it reflected the debate in British society about socialism. The principled narrator initially chooses loyalty to a friend who betrayed Britain to Russia, over loyalty to his King and country. The book concludes with the narrator joining forces with [[Italian Fascism|Italian Fascists]] against a group of Russian spies.
* ''[[Lonely Road (novel)|Lonely Road]]'' (1932) {{ISBN|1-84232-261-3}}. This novel deals with conspiracies and counterconspiracies, and experiments with writing styles.
* ''[[Ruined City]]'' (1938) {{ISBN|1-84232-290-7}}: U.S. title: ''Kindling''. A rich banker revives a town economically with a shipbuilding company through questionable financial dealings. He goes to jail for fraud, but the shipyard revives. ''Ruined City'' was distilled from Shute's experiences in trying to set up his own aircraft company.
* ''[[What Happened to the Corbetts]]'' (1938) {{ISBN|1-84232-302-4}}. U.S. title: ''Ordeal''. Foretells the German bombing of Southampton early in WWII.
* ''[[An Old Captivity]]'' (1940) {{ISBN|1-84232-275-3}}. The story of a pilot hired to take aerial photographs of a site in Greenland, who suffers a drug-induced flashback to Viking times.
* ''[[Landfall: A Channel Story]]'' (1940) {{ISBN|1-84232-258-3}}. A young RAF pilot and a British barmaid fall in love. His career suffers a setback when he is thought to have sunk a British submarine in error, but he is vindicated.
* ''[[Pied Piper (novel)|Pied Piper]]'' (1942) {{ISBN|1-84232-278-8}}. An old man rescues seven children (one of them the niece of a Gestapo officer) from France during the Nazi invasion.
* ''[[Most Secret]]'' (1942, published 1945) {{ISBN|1-84232-269-9}}. Unconventional attacks on German forces during WWII, using a French fishing boat.
* ''[[Pastoral (1944 novel)|Pastoral]]'' (1944) {{ISBN|1-84232-277-X}}. Crew relations and love at an airbase in rural surroundings in wartime England.
* ''[[Vinland the Good]]'' (film script, 1946) {{ISBN|1-889439-11-8}}
* ''[[The Seafarers (novel)|The Seafarers]]'' (1946–7, published 2002) {{ISBN|1-889439-32-0}}. The story of a dashing British naval Lieutenant and a Wren who meet right at the end of the Second World War.  Their romance is blighted by differences in social background and economic constraints; in unhappiness each turns to odd jobs in boating circles.<ref>{{cite web|last=Milgram|first=Shoshana|title=The Seafarers|url=http://www.nevilshute.org/Reviews/seafarers1.php|work=Book Review|publisher=Nevil Shute Norway Foundation|access-date=18 August 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928181511/http://www.nevilshute.org/Reviews/seafarers1.php|archive-date=28 September 2011}}</ref>
* ''[[The Chequer Board]]'' (1947) {{ISBN|1-84232-248-6}}. A dying man looks up three wartime comrades, one of whom sees Burma during Japanese occupation and in its independence period after the war. The novel contains a discussion of racism in the US and in the US Army stationed in Britain: British townsfolk prefer the company of black soldiers.
* ''[[No Highway]]'' (1948) {{ISBN|1-84232-273-7}}. Set in Britain and Canada; an eccentric "boffin" at [[Royal Aircraft Establishment|RAE Farnborough]] predicts [[metal fatigue]] in a new airliner, but is not believed. The [[de Havilland Comet|Comet]] failed for just this reason several years later, in 1954.
* ''[[A Town Like Alice]]'' (1950) {{ISBN|1-84232-300-8}}: U.S. title: ''The Legacy''. The hero and heroine meet while both are prisoners of the Japanese in Malaya (now Malaysia). After the war they seek each other out and reunite in a small Australian town that would have no future if not for her plans to turn it into "a town like [[Alice Springs, Northern Territory|Alice]]".
* ''[[Round the Bend (novel)|Round the Bend]]'' (1951) {{ISBN|1-84232-289-3}}. About a new religion developing around an aircraft mechanic. Shute considered this his best novel. It tackles racism, condemning the [[White Australia policy]].
* ''[[The Far Country (novel)|The Far Country]]'' (1952) {{ISBN|1-84232-251-6}}. A young woman travels to Australia. About the economic plight of Britain after WWII, in light of high wool prices providing prosperity to sheep farmers in Australia in the same period. A doctor condemns the National Health Service, another overcomes prejudice to operate.
* ''[[In the Wet]]'' (1953) {{ISBN|1-84232-254-0}}. An Anglican priest tells the story of an Australian aviator. This embraces a drug-induced flash forward to Britain in the 1980s. The novel criticises [[British socialism]] and anti-monarchist democratic sentiment.
* {{cite book |last1=Shute |first1=Nevil |title=Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer. |date=1954 |publisher=William Heinemann Ltd. |location=London |isbn=1-84232-291-5}} & {{ISBN|1-84232-291-5}}; (1964: Ballantine, New York)
* ''[[Requiem for a Wren]]'' (1955) {{ISBN|1-84232-286-9}}. U.S. title: ''The Breaking Wave''. The story of a young British woman who, plagued with guilt after shooting down a plane carrying Polish refugees in World War II, moves to Australia to work anonymously for the parents of her (now deceased) Australian lover, whilst the lover's brother searches for her in Britain.  The title echoes [[William Faulkner]]'s ''[[Requiem for a Nun]]''.
* ''[[Beyond the Black Stump]]'' (1956) {{ISBN|1-84232-246-X}}. The ethical standards of an unconventional family living in a remote part of Australia are compared with those of a conventional family living in Oregon.
* ''[[On the Beach (novel)|On the Beach]]'' (1957) {{ISBN|1-84232-276-1}}. Shute's best-known novel, set in Melbourne, whose population are awaiting death from the effects of an [[atomic war]]. It was serialised in more than 40 newspapers, and adapted into a [[On the Beach (1959 film)|1959 film]] starring [[Gregory Peck]] and [[Ava Gardner]]. In 2007, [[Gideon Haigh]] wrote an article in ''[[The Monthly]]'' arguing that ''On the Beach'' is Australia's most important novel: "Most novels of apocalypse posit at least a group of survivors and the semblance of hope. ''On The Beach'' allows nothing of the kind".<ref name="Gideon">{{cite journal|last=Haigh|first=Gideon|date=June 2007|title=Shute the Messenger – How the end of the world came to Melbourne (6800 words)|journal=[[The Monthly]]|issue=24|url=http://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2007/june/1268876839/gideon-haigh/shute-messenger|access-date=12 September 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130723215906/http://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2007/june/1268876839/gideon-haigh/shute-messenger|archive-date=23 July 2013}}</ref><ref name="Telegraph">{{cite news|url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/shutes-sands-of-time/story-e6frezz0-1111113652431|title=Shute's sands of time|last=Haigh|first=Gideon|date=1 June 2007|work=[[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|The Daily Telegraph]]|location=Australia|access-date=11 September 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811230306/http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/shutes-sands-of-time/story-e6frezz0-1111113652431|archive-date=11 August 2011}}</ref>
* ''[[The Rainbow and the Rose]]'' (1958) {{ISBN|1-84232-283-4}}. One man's three love stories; narration shifts from the narrator to the main character and back.
* ''[[Trustee from the Toolroom]]'' (1960) {{ISBN|1-84232-301-6}}. Shute's last novel, about the recovery of a lost legacy of diamonds from a wrecked yacht. Set in Britain, the Pacific Islands, and the American northwest.