May 2008
- The Gatherings page has been tidied up, giving each event its own page.
- Some new defintions in the glossary (Senior Wrangler, pongo, Snottie and wheelbarrow turn)
- Photographs of the 2008 Aviation Scholarship awards are included
- A little known part of the website enables readers to vote for their favourite books. Three readers have recently added their's. A menu item has been added.
- More book covers have been included:- Stephen Morris [1], Lonely Road [2], Ruined City [3], An Old Captivity [4], Landfall [1], Pied Piper [1], Pastoral [2], Most Secret [2], Chequer Board [2], No highway [1], A Town like Alice [4], Round the Bend [1], In the Wet [2], Slide Rule [1], Requiem for a Wren [1] and What Happened to the Corbetts [4]. All thanks to Shutist Alan Shepherd. More to come !
- Two more items have been added to the "Virtual Museum"
-
Dan Telfair's May Newsletter
- Changes to the Foundation Board members
- A photograph of a unique aircraft, built by WS Shackleton and Lee Murray. It was registered as G-ACBP
April 2008
March 2008
- Yet more book covers ("Rainbow and the Rose", "Trustee from the Toolroom", "Slide Rule" & "Chequer Board") have been added, this time courtesy of Richard Kidd
- Another copy of a book cover for "The Far Country" and for "What happened to the Corbetts"
- Richard Michalak's
March newsletter
- Two links at the bottom of the "Book Reviews" page, under the heading "Various Reviews" attributed to Richard La Ven and Eric Erisman, have been corrected.
- In addition, links to reviews of related books have also been added
- An interesting comment from Arno Martens about the origin of LBSC's real name.
- A recently found photograph of R100 flying over Toronto as been added to the PhotoTimeLine
February 2008
- Sixteen additional book covers have been added, courtesy of Dirk Lukasse of Holland
- Gary Bartell has temporarily taken over the US library whilst Susan Batross is away.
- Richard Michalak's
February newsletter.
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Recent (2007) photos taken of the first Airspeed factory in York have been added to the PhotoTimeLine
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An item about Annabelle Coppin's scholarship has been included under "2007 Recipients"
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The "Glossary" has been updated.
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Copies of two cuttings from "The Times" of 1930 have been added to the PhotoTimeLine for 1921-1930
January 2008
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An appreciation of "The Rainbow and the Rose" by Penny Morton, who lives in Tasmania, has been added to the Miscellaneous page
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The new book "Billy Vincent - Bush Pilot", by Guy Nicholson, is now in the UK library. Nevil Shute modelled Billy Monkhouse (the ground engineer in "Rainbow and the Rose") on Billy Vincent
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Most of the pages on the entire website have been updated to the same style (as this one). If I've missed any out please let me (Webmaster) know by clicking here.
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All the known book covers are now shown together here
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You can view the scores to date and vote for your favourite books by going here
- Access to archived newsletters can be found
here
- Richard Michalak's
January newsletter
December 2007
November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
- Richard Michalak and the July newsletter were on a Walkabout this month. They'll be back in August.
June 2007
May 2007
- The Newsletter is on vacation this month. Look for its return in June.
Meantime there is a short note from Laura about Alice 2007. Read it
here.
- The Alice '07 is now history. Stay tuned for all the news and pictures.
- The new
Glossary
is now available
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007
January 2007
- Richard Michalak
January newsletter.
- Susan Batross assumes post of Librarian for the US
- We are sorry to report that the Nevil Shute Book Club BC Chapter has been discontinued.
December 2006
November 2006
October 2006
- Bob Adderley's Opus Magnus, a comprehensive summary of the aviation in NSN's novels, is now located in the Aviation section of this site.
- US Branch of the Lending Library is back in service. See the Lending Library page for details.
- Richard Michalak
October newsletter.
September 2006
August 2006
- Richard Michalak
August newsletter.
- The Favorite Books Tally is alive again! After several months of neglect, for which I assume complete responsibility, the FavBooks Tabulation is up to date.You can get to it through the Novels and Characters page, or go directly by clicking
here (Use your browser's
back button to return to this page). I plan to update it monthly with the newsletter, so keep those emails coming with your choices.
July 2006
June 2006
May 2006
April 2006
- Richard Michalak
April newsletter.
- At Long Last! The Photo Album and Final Reports from CC2005. Click
here
to got to the CC2005 Page and download the pdf files.
March 2006
February 2006
January 2006
- Swedish translations now available on the Translations Page
- NSN Foundation Year End Report now available
- CC2005 Final Report and Photo Album now available
- Richard Michalak
January newsletter.
