Helen and Malcolm Benjamin Riley, invalid brother of Malcolm Roger Lechlane, a lawyer and politician, a cousin of Sir James, at Oxford. From a leading Liberal political family but becomes a Conservative or Diehard Peters, the mechanic of the Isle of Wight Aviation Company Robert Christie, at Oxford, as was his wife, a home student. He returns from the Argentine. in Pilotage Peter Dennison, a solicitor and yachtsman, was at Oxford Sheila Wallace, girlfriend of Dennison Jimmie Wallace, brother of Sheila (at Oxford, mentioned at the beginning of Stephen Morris) Their father, the old man, is unnamed Sir David Fisher, a shipping magnate (Fisher Line) and yachtsman Antony, son of the local rector to the Wallaces, was at Oxford, not a suitable match for Sheila (but Sheila’s only company in Little Tinney, as her father does not count), prone to disease Lanard, shares rooms in London and the yacht Irene on the Solent with Dennison References Stephen Morris (1961, Heinemann, London) (includes Pilotage as Book II). Slide Rule (1954, Heinemann, London) External links Book covers 1923 British novels 1961 British novels Aviation novels Heinemann (publisher) books Novels by Nevil Shute Novels published posthumously 1924 British novels 1924 debut novels