So Disdained
  • Published: 15 October 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099530183
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $32.99

So Disdained

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1 Jul 2010
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15 Oct 2009
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A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.

When Peter Moran picks up a man on the roadside while driving through a bitter rainy night on the South Downs, he embarks upon an adventure that will lead him into treasonous international plots, flying adventures and tests of both his bravery and his loyalty.
  • Published: 15 October 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099530183
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Nevil Shute

Nevil Shute was born on 17 January 1899 in Ealing, London. After attending the Dragon School and Shrewsbury School, he studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. He worked as an aeronautical engineer and published his first novel, Marazan, in 1926. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they went on to have two daughters. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons. After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his death on 12 January 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), No Highway (1948), A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957).

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Praise for So Disdained

Any book by Nevil Shute is a delight

Punch

That shattering, unaffected, literary style of his is masterly

H.E. Bates

There is a quality of golden light that hangs over his books. That comes, I think, from his sense of order and from his own vast, undemonstrative solicitude

John Ezard, Guardian