Three of Nevil Shute's novels in one hardback volume consisting of: No Highway in which an aircraft engineer puts his eccentric interests in quantum mechanics and spiritualism to good effect after a passenger plane crashes in unexplained circumstances (240 pages). A Town Like Alice in which a former Japanese Prisoner of War returns, after the war, to Malaya, the place of her capture and from there to Australia and a new life in a new community (254 pages). On the Beach. Post-war Australia is threatened by a poisonous radio active cloud and an American submarine captain gets involved in rescue efforts (210 pages). The Book Club Associates edition comes in a cream coloured dust-cover which has closed tears at spine and bottom of front edge and is worn along the edges. The dust jacket is unclipped. The book itself is shelf knocked at the base of the spine but is otherwise clean and unmarked.