The first of his 24 novels, Marazan, was published in 1926 and these two very separate careers flourished in tandem until he ceased work in 1938 to write full-time. He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with a degree in engineering in 1922 and began working as an aeronautical engineer. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by bestselling novelist Jenny Colgan.Ībout the Author Nevil Shute Norway was born in London in 1899. A heart-rending story of strength in adversity, A Town Like Alice is a celebration of the overwhelming power of love.

Cut off in the Australian outback and thousands of miles from home, Jean once again draws on her admirable determination and entrepreneurial spirit when she sets out to build a thriving community. From there she travels on to Australia in search of lost love. She decides to use the money to repay the Malayan people who risked their lives to help her and her fellow prisoners during the war so she travels back to the village where they stayed. A few years later, and back in England, Jean receives an unexpected and substantial inheritance. During this appalling ordeal she befriends Joe Harman, an Australian soldier who risks his own life to help the women. She is forced on a brutal march across the country with a group of women and children.

Jean Paget, a young English woman, is captured by the Japanese army in Malaya during World War Two. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. About the Book A gripping story of love and bravery set in Malaya, London and Australiaĭesigned to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles.

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