-WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE IF POSSIBLE. SMALL SIZE VINTAGE PAPERBACK . CREASES TO BOOK AND COB=VER AND SOME FOXING DUE TO AGENorth from Thursday is a 1960 novel from Australian author Jon Cleary. It is set in New Guinea and concerns the eruption of a volcano, forcing a group of survivors to flee across the country. The story is based on the 1951 eruption of Mount Lamington.