No Highway (Vintage Classics)
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Shute was a brilliant storyteller and terrific example for any writer Express Mr Shute is a storyteller in the tradition of R.L Stevenson and Kipling Evening News That shattering, unaffected literary style..masterly No Highway is a novel which engages the heart and grips the mind Evening Standard
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EXCITEMENT and SUSPENSE 18,000 Feet Over the Atlantic!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio Cassette
Nevil Shute has been an author with whom I can always rely on, and this book does not dissapoint. From the very beginning, I could not put it down. It contains everything you could want from a fiction book, suspense, romance and most importantly fantasies. I would highly recommend this book to anyone, no matter what their tastes or preferences are.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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A Raindeer airplane crashes in Labrador after a little less than 1440 flying hours. In the official report the accident is ascribed to pilot error but Denis Scott at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough is not convinced that this explanation is true. Neither does Theodore Honey, a slightly eccentric member of Scott's staff, who has an as yet unproved theory that the tail plane of the Raindeer is bound to succumb to metal fatigue after 1440 hours in the air. What if Honey's experiments prove him to be right?
The reader for this audiobook is Robin Bailey and his performance is very good.
The reader for this audiobook is Robin Bailey and his performance is very good.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Shute is perhaps the best known of English authors of the 20th century concerning tales with an aviation bias. Slightly dated now, they still read beautifully. For fans of Shute might I suggest that you try John Templeton Smith's "White Lie" and "Saigon Express", which in their own way carry on a tradition of the best of British. Curiously enough Smith attended the same English school (Shrewsbury) as Nevil Shute Norway (albeit many years later). Must have had some pretty good English masters at that noble institution!
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No Highway
No Highway (Vintage Classics)Since I bought my kindle I am spending hours reading books again. This is one of Nevil Shute's best books a really good read.
Published 21 days ago by K. W. Deacon
Neville Shute
As always, Neville Shute is a good read. This book was purchased a birthday present for a relative who has just discovered this writer. Stories that can be read again and again.
Published 13 months ago by A good read
Long ago
Long ago (I was a teenager) I read this book. The one thing that had stayed in my memory was the strange episode of the message on the planchette. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Reader / writer
My Opinion
I remember reading Neville Shute's books when I was in in the RAF. It certainly "takes me back", as we are supposed to say nowadays. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Francis J
Nevil Shute at his very best
This is one of Shute's absolute classics; it created a stir at the time and has gone on selling ever since. Read more
Published on 8 Sep 2009 by Mr. Ian C. Kemp
Blast from the past
There's something so refreshing about Nevil Shute's novels - an era of good manners and decency, not blighted by modern materialism and the cult of celebrity. Read more
Published on 1 Jan 2009 by herladyship
The meek engineers shall inherit the earth
No Highway - (and Round the Bend) - state beautifully the Nevil Shute view that the meek shall inherit the earth, particularly if they are aircraft engineers. Read more
Published on 1 Nov 2000 by Paul Stanyer
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