| 1949 - 1950 : Shute writes a draft article called "My Week". He describes how at Pond Head he writes from 9am to 1pm every day of the week. On one Sunday every month he attends church. His secretary comes 3 mornings a week. He says he reads no more than 2 or 3 novels a year preferring technical journals. Inspired by Winston Churchill he does some oil painting and enjoys it. He describes an alternate week during the flight to Australia. He describes flying in heavy rain at palm tree height. He later used this experience in "The Rainbow and The Rose". |
| 1949 : The film of "Landfall" is released under the same name. Produced by Victor Skutezsky at Pathe Studios it was directed by Ken Annakin, and starred Michael Denison and Patricia Plunkett. |
| Late 1949 : Shute starts writing "Round The Bend". |
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| 1950 : "A Town Like Alice" is published. |
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Shute in a 1950-ish publicity shot in a very nice chair. ( CO ) |
| May 12 1950 : Shute writes to Heather from Pond Head. He will finish Round the Bend the next day and expects it to be a financial failure. He will meet Heather in Oxford and see the rowing races. Shute leaves for Australia soon and Heather leaves on December 21st on the Stratheden. Shute includes a joking cartoon of an over-eating and under-exercising Heather being rolled off the ship at Melbourne. |
| Shute's drawing of his daughter Heather being rolled off the ship at Melbourne because she over-ate and under-exercised on the voyage. ( PL / NP ) |
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| May 13 1950 : "Round The Bend" is finished. |
| July - August 1950 : Shute and his family emigrate to Australia and first move to a house in Mt Eliza on the Mornington Peninsular, Victoria not far from Langwarrin. Shute brings along an Austin Princess car. |
Click for larger image Shute in another publicity shot probably taken about 1950. (Photo: CE/ SR) |
 Click for larger imageCopy of a letter written by Nevil Shute on his emigration to Australia |
| September 30 1950 : Shute is informed that he has been awarded The France and Germany Star, The Defense Medal and the War Medal 1939-1945. These medals have now disappeared and he may never have received them as he was already on the way to Australia when the letter was written. Shute's letter of inquiry was dated September 09 1949. The reply is dated one year and 21 days later. |
| 1950 : Shutes literary earnings from 1926 to 1950 total 121,933 Pounds Sterling. |
