What english novelist and aeronautical engineer wrote Round the Bend?
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Round the Bend (novel) Round the Bend is a 1951 novel by Nevil Shute. It tells the story of Constantine "Connie" Shaklin, an aircraft engineer who founds a new religion transcending existing religions based on the merit of good work.
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Nevil Shute Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 189912 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels, which included "On the Beach" and "A Town Like Alice".
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Frances Eleanor Trollope Frances Eleanor Trollope (née Ternan) (August 1835 – 14 August 1913) was an English novelist.
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George Chamier George Chamier (8 April 1842–25 April 1915) was a New Zealand engineer, surveyor and novelist. He was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England on 8 April 1842.
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Christopher Cockerell Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell CBE RDI FRS (4 June 1910 – 1 June 1999) was an English engineer, best known as the inventor of the hovercraft.
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Walter Raymond Walter Raymond (13 March 1852 – 2 April 1931) was an English novelist. He wrote many novels between 1890 and 1928, primarily based in Somerset, and also wrote under the pseudonym Tom Cobbleigh. Some of his titles include "Gentleman Upcott's Daughter" (1892), "Love and Quiet Life" (1894), "Fortune's Darling" (1901), and "Verity Thurston" (1926). He died in Southampton on 2 April 1931 at the age of 79. Raymond's work is long out of print and currently gets little attention, although some novels are now available for free online.
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Sylvia Townsend Warner Sylvia Townsend Warner (6 December 1893 – 1 May 1978) was an English novelist and poet. She also made a contribution to musicology as a young woman.
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Evelyn Everett-Green Evelyn Ward Everett-Green (17 November 1856, London – 23 April 1932, Funchal) was an English novelist who started her writing career with improving and pious stories for children, and later wrote historical fiction for older girls, and then adult romantic fiction.
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George Arthur Barnes George Arthur Barnes (19 July 1883 – 1 February 1919) was an English racing motorcyclist and a pioneer aviator.
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Charles Guy Parsloe Charles Guy Parsloe (5 November 1900 – 8 March 1985), was a British engineer, writer and Liberal Party politician.
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Christopher Hatton Turnor Christopher Hatton Turnor (23 November 1873 – 19 August 1940) was an English author, architect, and social reformer. He is known for having designed the Watts Gallery, Surrey and the Stoneham War Shrine, Hampshire.
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John Quine John Quine (5 May 1857 – 29 February 1940) was a Manx clergyman, scholar, novelist and playwright. Today he is perhaps best remembered for his 1897 novel, "The Captain of the Parish".
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Charles Round Charles Round (3 September 1885 – 6 October 1945) was an English cricketer. He played two matches for Essex in 1921.
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Joyce Cary Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary (7 December 1888 – 29 March 1957) was an Irish novelist.
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Landing in Luck "Landing in Luck" was William Faulkner's first published short story. Appearing in the November 26, 1919 issue of "The Mississippian", a literary magazine at the University of Mississippi, "Landing in Luck" tells the story of Cadet Thompson, who is sent on a solo flight without adequate instruction. Thompson lands successfully, and his flight instructor, Bessing, takes credit for the fine job he did of teaching the cadet pilot. It is a fictional exaggeration based on Faulkner's experience as a cadet-pilot for the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1918.
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Thomas Hinde (novelist) Sir Thomas Willes Chitty, 3rd Baronet (2 March 1926 – 7 March 2014), better known by his pen name Thomas Hinde, was a British novelist.
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Edward Wyke Smith Edward Augustine Wyke-Smith (12 April 1871 – 16 May 1935) was an English adventurer, mining engineer and writer. He is known mainly for "The Marvellous Land of Snergs", a children's fantasy novel he wrote as E. A. Wyke-Smith, whose "snergs" provided inspiration for Tolkien's creation of hobbits.
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Francis Edward Smedley Francis Edward Smedley, (4 October 1818 – 1 May 1864) was an English novelist. His name appears in print usually as Frank E. Smedley.
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Lewis Page Mercier Reverend Lewis Page Mercier (9 January 1820 – 2 November 1875) is known today as the translator, along with Eleanor Elizabeth King, of two of the best known novels of Jules Verne: "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas" and "From the Earth to the Moon, and a Trip Around It". To avoid a conflict of interest with his position as chaplain, Mercier wrote under the pen names of Louis Mercier, MA (Oxon) and Mercier Lewis.
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Flyaway (novel) Flyaway is a first person narrative thriller novel by English author Desmond Bagley, first published in 1978. It introduces Max Stafford as protagonist, who would later appear in Bagley's novel, "Windfall".
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Gerald Melling Gerald John Melling (1943 - 22 December 2012) was an English-born, Architect, Poet, Novelist, Journalist, Author and Editor.
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Crichton Porteous Leslie Crichton Porteous (1901–1991) was an author (writing under the name of Crichton Porteous) of fiction and non-fiction – books, articles and short stories – many of them about life in the Peak District of northern England, and often set in specific Peak locations ("Toad Hole" and "Broken River", for example, are set in the Derwent Valley).