The book begins with details of Shute's childhood and upbringing, his school years, events in the Easter 1916 Dublin Rising, where his father was Secretary to the Post Office, and service during World War I. Shute came into contact with airplanes during his time as a student at Oxford, where in his holiday periods he worked at the de Havilland aircraft factory.

The Australian novels are individual hymns to that country, with subtle disparagement of the mores of the USA ( Beyond the Black Stump ) and overt antipathy towards the post World War II socialist government of Shute's native Britain ( The Far Country and In the Wet ).

) Vitruvius Britannicus was the first architectural work to originate in England since John Shute's Elizabethan First Groundes.

Already during Queen Elizabeth I's reign reproductions of the classic orders had found their way into English architecture, based frequently upon John Shute's The First and Chief Grounds of Architecture, published in 1563, with two other editions in 1579 and 1584.

Shute's works can be divided into three sequential thematic categories: Prewar ; War ; and Australia.

Since this measure of destruction was no longer imaginary, some of these new works, such as Mordecai Roshwald's Level 7, Nevil Shute's On the Beach and Pat Frank's Alas, Babylon, and Robert McCammon's Swan Song shun the imaginary science and technology that are the identifying traits of general science fiction.

Ruined City was distilled from Shute's experiences in trying to set up his own aircraft company.

A fictional doomsday bomb, made popular by Nevil Shute's 1957 novel, and subsequent 1959 movie, On the Beach, the cobalt bomb was a hydrogen bomb with a jacket of cobalt metal.

Shute's understanding was that the women were forced to march around Sumatra for two-and-a-half years, covering, with fewer than 30 people surviving the march.

A genre of such topical fiction sprang up in the late 1950s – led by Nevil Shute's On the Beach – of which Red Alert was among the earliest examples.

Fenner himself was unable to fathom a motive, other than she was upset from reading Neville Shute's book, On the Beach.

Even though there was some desire on the part of the French and the Abenaki for a peaceful resolution to the dispute, the Massachusetts assembly, over Shute's objections, took a hard line, cutting off trade with the Abenaki, and authorizing a militia expedition against Norridgewock, one of the main Abenaki towns.

The hero of Nevil Shute's 1948 novel No Highway is an eccentric " boffin " at Farnborough who predicts metal fatigue in Britain's new airliner, the Rutland Reindeer.

The first part is about Shute's experiences working on the R100 airship project at Vickers.

The other characters proceed on their lives happily, we are told at the end of what is probably Shute's most villain-free novel.

* Keith Stewart, the main character in Nevil Shute's Trustee from the Toolroom, lives in West Ealing.

* Haigh, Gideon ( 2007 ) ' Shute's sands of time ' in The Daily Telegraph http :// www. news. com. au / dailytelegraph / story / 0 ,, 21826948-5001031, 00. html Accessed 14 June 2007

* An escaped convict from Dartmoor figures in Nevil Shute's first novel Marazan, published in 1926.

Other films include The Hucksters ( 1947 ) with Clark Gable, Show Boat ( 1951 ), The Snows of Kilimanjaro ( 1952 ) with Gregory Peck, Lone Star ( 1952 ) with Clark Gable, Mogambo ( 1953 ) with Clark Gable and Grace Kelly, 1954's The Barefoot Contessa with Humphrey Bogart ( which some consider to be Gardner's " signature film " since it mirrored her real life custom of going barefoot ), Bhowani Junction ( 1956 ), The Sun Also Rises with Tyrone Power and Errol Flynn ( in which she played party-girl Brett Ashley ) ( 1957 ), and the film version of Nevil Shute's best-selling On the Beach with Peck and Fred Astaire.

Aviation is the backdrop in many of Shute's novels, which are written in a simple, highly readable style, with clearly delineated plot lines.

* On the Beach ( 1957 ), Shute's best-known novel, is set in Melbourne, whose population is awaiting death from the effects of an atomic war.

Aberdeen and Hoquiam figure prominently in Nevil Shute's post-Apocalyptic novel " On the Beach.

The 1957 Morrow edition has the poem excerpts on the title page, under Nevil Shute's name.

As much as it resembles the plot of Shute's novel, however ( see below ), a careful reading of the book gives no reference to the Whitman poem, while the T. S.

Then in January 1723, Governor Samuel Shute abruptly returned to England, so Wentworth took over in New Hampshire, governing until the arrival of Shute's replacement, William Burnet, in 1728.

The novel contains many of the ingredients that made Shute popular as a novelist, and, like several other of Shute's later novels, includes an element of the supernatural.

Shute's fictional account of a new airliner design being subject to mechanical failure due to metal fatigue after a certain number of flight cycles presaged the similar failures of the de Havilland Comet airliner just six years later.

* Publication of Nevil Shute's novel No Highway set in the world of research into air safety.

1986 saw her in The Lighthorsemen ( film ), the TV adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel The Far Country, Great Expectations, the Untold Story and Slate, Wyn & Me.

Lawhead alters the standard Arthurian story somewhat, in that he has Aurelius marry Igraine and become the true father of King Arthur ( Uther does marry his brother's widow, though ).

Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave follows Geoffrey of Monmouth in calling him Aurelius Ambrosius and portrays him as the father of Merlin, the elder brother of Uther ( hence uncle of Arthur ), an initiate of Mithras, and generally admired by everyone except the Saxons.

One of the silversmiths in Arthur Stone's shop was George Porter Blanchard, father of silversmith Porter Blanchard.

Elsie's father, Arthur, was a keen amateur photographer, and had set up his own darkroom.

Marx's children, particularly his son Arthur, felt strongly that Fleming was pushing their weak father beyond his physical and mental limits.

His father was a military bandmaster, and by the time Arthur had reached the age of 8, he was proficient with all the instruments in the band.

His father, Arthur Simon ( 1881 – 1948 ), was an electrical engineer who had come to the United States from Germany in 1903 after earning his engineering degree from the Technische Hochschule of Darmstadt.

Helen's father, Arthur H. Keller, spent many years as an editor for the Tuscumbia North Alabamian and had served as a captain for the Confederate Army.

Middleton's son, Arthur ( 1742 – 1787 ) would also get involved in politics, succeeding his father as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in 1776, after his resignation, and, later on, sign the Declaration of Independence.

He incorporates Arthur's father, Uther Pendragon, his magician advisor Merlin, and the story of Arthur's conception, in which Uther, disguised as his enemy Gorlois by Merlin's magic, sleeps with Gorlois's wife Igerna at Tintagel, and she conceives Arthur.

Though he has never seen her, Culhwch becomes infatuated with her, but his father warns him that he will never find her without the aid of his famous cousin Arthur.

In the second, Merlin's magic enables Uther Pendragon to enter into Tintagel in disguise and father his son Arthur with his enemy's wife, Igraine.

In 2005, Merlin appeared as leader of the Woads of Britton and father to Guinevere in King Arthur.

In the late 19th century the Cymru Fydd movement recreated him as the father of Welsh nationalism, revising the historical image of him and joining him in popular memory as a national hero on par with King Arthur.

* The 2007 film The Last Legion, and the novel on which it is based, includes a heavily fictionalized account of the reign and subsequent life of Romulus Augustus ; escaping captivity with the aid of a small band of loyal Romans, he escapes to Britain, where he takes a place in what will become Arthurian legend as Uther Pendragon, the father of King Arthur, and a previous wielder of Excalibur ( Here the sword of Julius Caesar ).

This table, here made for Arthur's father Uther Pendragon rather than Arthur himself, has twelve seats and one empty place to mark the betrayal of Judas.

His father, Arthur Spiegel III, was a distant relation of the Spiegel catalog family and founded APM Management Consultants.

After Henry II's death in 1189 the countship, together with the rest of his dominions, passed to his son Richard I of England, but on the death of the latter in 1199, Arthur of Brittany ( born in 1187 ) laid claim to the inheritance, which ought, according to him, to have fallen to his father Geoffrey, fourth son of Henry II, in accordance with the custom by which " the son of the eldest brother should succeed to his father's patrimony.

Some, such as George VI of the United Kingdom ( born Albert Frederick Arthur George ), may wish to make a connection between their reign and that of a previous sovereign ( in his case, his father, George V ).

He was to become the future father of her two children, Arthur and Adele Schopenhauer.

Due to a promise he had made to his father, which Arthur refused to break even after Henrich Floris's death, he felt obliged to go on with his merchant apprenticeship.

The letter was about their father's suicide and, in it, Arthur pointed to Johanna as being responsible for the tragedy, rumoured to be a suicide, saying that, whilst their father suffered ill in bed, abandoned to the care of an employee, Johanna amused herself in social reunions and gave her husband none of her time.

" Grandmother Evans called Arthur " darling Trot ," asserting in a note that, compared to his father, he was " a bit of a dunce.

In 1878 Arthur proposed to Margaret, Freeman's oldest daughter, three years his senior, an educated and literate woman, and until now secretary for her father.

The writer J. R. R. Tolkien was born in the city on 3 January 1892, though his family left South Africa following the death of his father, Arthur Tolkien, while Tolkien was still a child ( 1895 ).