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 James I knew neither hope nor peace.” Anna Robeson Brown Burr wrote a biography, "Alice James, Her Brothers – Her Journal" (1934). Jean Strouse published what has become the standard life ("Alice James: a Biography") in 1980. Strouse steered something of a middle course between Alice-as-icon and Alice-as-victim. Ruth Yeazell published James' correspondence in "The Death and Letters of Alice James" (1981). Susan Sontag wrote a play about James, "Alice in Bed" (1993), which seems to waver between sympathy and impatience with its subject. More recently, Lynne Alexander wrote a sympathetic novel about Alice James, "The Sister" (2012). Alice James Alice