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Epigraph: Eight lines from a hymn 'sung at Shrewsbury School', composed by C. A. Allington.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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A Town Not Quite Like Alice
2021
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Inside Story , 13 August 2021;In 2021, Hamish McDonald visited Burketown in the Gulf of Carpentaria to look at 'the unlikely place' where Nevil Shute's 'infatuation' with remote Australia began. McDonald examines the changes in Burketown since Shute's writing of A Town Like Alice, especially the lives of the local Aboriginal population.
McDonald also comments on Shute's 'hatred' of the welfare state and illustrates the ways in which this disdain seeps through into Shute's fiction writing.
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Sky Politics : Nevil Shute’s In the Wet
2016
single work
column
— Appears in: Aurealis : Australian Fantasy and Science Fiction , no. 87 2016; -
Nevil Shute - Exile by Choice
1988
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: A Sense of Exile : Essays in the Literature of the Asia-Pacific Region 1988; (p. 81-87) -
Stories Within Stories
1954
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 15 no. 2 1954; (p. 111-114)
— Review of In the Wet 1953 single work novel -
Nevil Shute Again
1953
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 13 May vol. 74 no. 3822 1953; (p. 2)
— Review of In the Wet 1953 single work novel
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Untitled
1953
single work
review
— Appears in: Walkabout , vol. 19 no. 7 1953; (p. 45)
— Review of In the Wet 1953 single work novel -
Nevil Shute Again
1953
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 13 May vol. 74 no. 3822 1953; (p. 2)
— Review of In the Wet 1953 single work novel -
Stories Within Stories
1954
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 15 no. 2 1954; (p. 111-114)
— Review of In the Wet 1953 single work novel -
Nevil Shute - Exile by Choice
1988
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: A Sense of Exile : Essays in the Literature of the Asia-Pacific Region 1988; (p. 81-87) -
Sky Politics : Nevil Shute’s In the Wet
2016
single work
column
— Appears in: Aurealis : Australian Fantasy and Science Fiction , no. 87 2016; -
A Town Not Quite Like Alice
2021
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Inside Story , 13 August 2021;In 2021, Hamish McDonald visited Burketown in the Gulf of Carpentaria to look at 'the unlikely place' where Nevil Shute's 'infatuation' with remote Australia began. McDonald examines the changes in Burketown since Shute's writing of A Town Like Alice, especially the lives of the local Aboriginal population.
McDonald also comments on Shute's 'hatred' of the welfare state and illustrates the ways in which this disdain seeps through into Shute's fiction writing.
- Australian Outback, Central Australia,
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cEngland,ccUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,
- Gulf of Carpentaria area, Far North Queensland, Queensland,
- Northern Territory,
- Queensland,
- Gulf of Carpentaria area, Far North Queensland, Queensland,
- Australian Outback, Central Australia,
- 1950s
- 1980s