Just finished Trustee from the Toolroom, by Nevil Shute.
As for all his books (that I love) very straightforward reading and not very complex but interesting plot, great characters and great writing - though from the 50s/60s they need to be read accepting the time they were written. No explicit murder, killing, drugs, violence and as far as sex…well the reader knows when it has likely happened but Shute leaves it to our imagination
Others by Shute? Most will have heard of A Town Like Alice…though have you read it? If not do yourself a lovely favour - it’s not at all what I imagined. And as for On the Beach? Written in and about Cold War times, the story chimes doom-fully today (btw Ava Garner stunning in the film alongside Gregory Peck and Anthony Perkins).
You’ve probably read it but one of my favourites is Requiem for a Wren.
