Too Late the Phalarope found in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Too Late the Phalarope Too Late the Phalarope is the second novel of Alan Paton, the South African author who is best known for writing "Cry, the Beloved Country". It was published in 1953, and was the last novel he published before "Ah, but Your Land is Beautiful" in 1981. The summary on the dust jacket of the first UK edition reads, in part; 'The setting is again South Africa, but the tragedy this time is of a white man who, for complicated reasons, some of them not unconnected with his childhood
The Far Country (novel) The Far Country (novel) The Far Country is a novel by Nevil Shute, first published in 1952. In this novel, Shute has some harsh things to say about the new (British) National Health Service, as well as the socialist Labour government, themes he would later develop more fully in "In the Wet". He describes the lot of the 'New Australians'; refugees who are required to work for two years where they are placed, in return for free passage to Australia. The story takes place partly in London and partly in Australia. It is set in 1950. Jennifer Morton, a young