Round the Bend (novel) 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. It deals with racism, including the White Australia policy, and also with the importance of private enterprise. It was one of the first novels Shute wrote after emigrating from Britain to Australia in 1950. The novel, written in the first person, adopts the voice and eyes of Tom Cutter, an aircraft pilot, engineer, and entrepreneur. The novel starts with Cutter's
Alice Cornwell (‘Phil’) Robinson. In 1888 her friend Fergus Hume wrote a novel, "Madame Midas" about a "Mrs Villiers" which was obviously based on Cornwell. Cornwell sold the "Sunday Times" in 1893 to Frederick Beer, who already owned "Observer". Beer appointed his wife, Rachel Sassoon Beer, as editor. Cornwell's estranged first husband died in 1893 and she married Robinson in 1894. Cornwell died in 1932 in Hove. Alice Cornwell Alice Ann Cornwell or Alice Whiteman or Alice Robinson (1 January 1852 – 7 January 1932) was a British goldmining industrialist and newspaper proprietor. She made her fortune from gold and floated her