AustLit logo

AustLit

image of person or book cover 3428412696526238413.jpg
This image has been sourced from online.
y separately published work icon Trustee from the Toolroom single work   novel  
Issue Details: First known date: 1960... 1960 Trustee from the Toolroom
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'Keith Stewart is a quiet and unassuming man called upon to undertake an extraordinary task. A skilled maker of miniature working models, he lives a modest life devoted to his hobby. But when his sister and her wealthy husband die in a shipwreck on a coral reef in the Pacific—while trying to smuggle out of England their entire fortune in diamonds hidden in the keel of their yacht—Keith becomes trustee for his orphaned niece. To save her from destitution he must travel halfway around the world and risk a long voyage in a small boat in inhospitable waters to recover her inheritance. In the course of his adventure-filled quest, a colorful and international cast of characters mobilize to help him, and this humble man discovers he has more friends and admirers than he could have dared to imagine.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Vintage International ed.).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Heinemann ,       1960 .
      image of person or book cover 6681066537612516583.jpg
      This image has been sourced from online.
      Extent: 312p.
      Reprinted: 1963
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,      :       The Book Club ,       1960 .
      image of person or book cover 3428412696526238413.jpg
      This image has been sourced from online.
      Extent: 242p.
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,      :       William Morrow ,       1960 .
      image of person or book cover 2447658960640423401.jpg
      This image has been sourced from online.
      Extent: 311p.
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,      :       Ballantine Books ,       1967 .
      image of person or book cover 526403489816970307.jpg
      This image has been sourced from online.
      Extent: 256p.
    • Geneva,
      c
      Switzerland,
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Edito-Service ,       1968 .
      Extent: 312p.
      Note/s:
      • Original illustrations by Patricia Ludlow.
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Heron Books ,       1969 .
      Extent: 312p.
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Pan ,       1970 .
      image of person or book cover 2483883803761434269.jpg
      This image has been sourced from online.
      Extent: 284p.
      ISBN: 0330023071
    • Larchmont, New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,      :       Queens House ,       1976 .
      Extent: 311p.
      ISBN: 0892440163
    • Leicester, Leicestershire,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Charnwood ,       1985 .
      Extent: 413p.
      ISBN: 0708982506
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Mandarin ,       1990 .
      image of person or book cover 2233013318097772583.jpg
      This image has been sourced from online.
      Extent: 314p.
    • Thirsk, Yorkshire,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Poughkeepsie, New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,      :       House of Stratus ,       2000 .
      image of person or book cover 2865719882767003869.jpg
      This image has been sourced from online.
      Extent: 305p.
      ISBN: 1842323016
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Vintage UK ,       2009 .
      image of person or book cover 4947151835884596050.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 304p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 15 October 2009 (pbk) and 1 July 2010 (ebk).
      ISBN: 9781409087519 (ebk), 9780099529989 (pbk)
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,      :       Vintage ,       2010 .
      image of person or book cover 5793892799742518858.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 300p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 14 September 2010.
      ISBN: 9780307474223
      Series: y separately published work icon Vintage International New York (City) : Vintage , 1993- 19532994 1993 series - publisher novel

      'William Faulkner, Philip Roth, Alice Munro, Thomas Mann, Doris Lessing, Albert Camus, V.S. Naipaul, Gabriel García Márquez, Salman Rushdie, Joan Didion, and Cormac McCarthy, among many others: Vintage International is devoted to publishing the best writing of the past century from the world over. Offering both classic and modern fiction and literary nonfiction in elegant editions, Vintage International aims to provide readers with world-class writing that has stood the test of time and essential works by the preeminent authors of today.'

      Source: Vintage.
Alternative title: Une chasse aux diamants
Language: French
VIEW PUBLICATION DETAILS FOR ALL VERSIONS ()

Other Formats

  • Also braille and sound recording.
  • Condensed by Reader's Digest for volume three, 1960, summer selections.
Find library holdings on Trove

Works about this Work

Nevil Shute - Exile by Choice Jack W. Bennett , 1988 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: A Sense of Exile : Essays in the Literature of the Asia-Pacific Region 1988; (p. 81-87)
Trustee From the Toolroom 1977 single work criticism
— Appears in: Survey of Contemporary Literature 1977; (p. 7800-7802)
Nevil Shute's Farewell 1960 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 17 August vol. 81 no. 4201 1960; (p. 59)
— Review of Trustee from the Toolroom Nevil Shute , 1960 single work novel
Nevil Shute's Farewell 1960 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 17 August vol. 81 no. 4201 1960; (p. 59)
— Review of Trustee from the Toolroom Nevil Shute , 1960 single work novel
Nevil Shute - Exile by Choice Jack W. Bennett , 1988 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: A Sense of Exile : Essays in the Literature of the Asia-Pacific Region 1988; (p. 81-87)
Trustee From the Toolroom 1977 single work criticism
— Appears in: Survey of Contemporary Literature 1977; (p. 7800-7802)
VIEW ALL WORKS ABOUT (3)
Last amended 12 Jun 2020 10:13:48
Subjects:
Settings:
  • South Pacific, Pacific Region,
  • c
    United States of America (USA),
    c
    Americas,
  • c
    United Kingdom (UK),
    c
    Western Europe, Europe,
  • 1950s
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X