On The Beach (novel)

On The Beach (novel)

On the Beach is a 1957 post-apocalyptic, end-of-the-world novel written by British-Australian author Nevil Shute after he emigrated to Australia. It first appeared as a four part series "The Last Days on Earth" in the London weekly periodical Sunday Graphic, for the month of April 1957. New material was included in the novel.

The novel was adapted for the screenplay of a 1959 film featuring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, and Fred Astaire, and a 2000 television film starring Bryan Brown, Armand Assante and Rachel Ward. BBC Radio 4 broadcast a full cast audio dramatization in two hour-long episodes as part of their Classic Serial strand in November 2008.