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Access Road by Maurice Gee
37.00 NZD
38.00 (2% off)
Category: NZ Fiction
This is a novel of family secrets and tensions, and distant past grievances, set like so much of Maurice Gee's fiction in the West Auckland town of Loomis. It is also vintage Maurice Gee, widely recognised as New Zealand's finest living fiction writer. Publication will be a significant event. New Zealan ...Show more
Blindsight by Maurice Gee
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Blindsight is the story of a good though damaged man and his less than virtuous sister. As their childhood closeness unravels, Alice moves into her career in science (she's a mycologist), while Gordon descents into vagrancy and silence. For more than thirty years they do not meet. Then a young man appea ...Show more
Creeks and Kitchens: A Childhood Memoir by Maurice Gee
15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non- fiction | Series: BWB Texts
When someone says the word 'kitchen' I get an instant flash of that room, with its black stove and drying rack, its brown lino, its worn mat and wooden table, the Philco radio on the mantelpiece. And 'creek' works in a similar way. These are things that can start me writing.... Widely regarded as one of ...Show more
Gool by Maurice Gee
20.00 NZD
Category: Children | Series: Salt Trilogy 2
Gool is the sequel to Salt. Sixteen years have passed since Pearl from Company and Hari from Blood Burrow defeated the tyrant Ottmar. Now their children, Xantee and Lo, face an even more dangerous foe. Hari lies dangerously ill with a fragment of a strange creature wrapped around his throat, draining hi ...Show more
Memory Pieces by Maurice Gee
35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Sdecondhand. Memory Pieces is an intimate and evocative memoir in three parts. `Double Unit' tells the story of Maurice Gee's parents - Lyndahl Chapple Gee, a talented writer who for reasons that become clear never went on with a writing career, and Len Gee, a boxer, builder, and man's man. `Blind Ro ...Show more
Plumb by Maurice Gee
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Maurice Gee's acclaimed novel Plumbwas the winner of the Wattie Book Award and the New Zealand Fiction Award. His brilliant picture of the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb is regarded as one of the very finest New Zealand novels.
Plumb (Popular Penguin) by Maurice Gee
16.00 NZD
Category: Popular Penguins
Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, Maurice Gee's Plumb introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb, one of the most memorable characters in New Zealand literature &- half saint, half monster, superhuman in his spiritual strength and destr ...Show more
Salt by Maurice Gee
18.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Salt Trilogy
Hari lives in Blood Burrow, deep in the ruined city of Belong, where he survives by courage and savagery. He is scarred from fighting, he is dangerous and cruel, but he has a secret gift: he can speak with animals. When his father, Tarl, is taken as a slave and sent to the mine known as Deep Salt, from ...Show more
The Burning Boy (Penguin Award Winning Classics) by Maurice Gee
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
"The Burning Boyis a vivid picture of life in a provincial town in times of disturbance and change.Certainties collapse in the face of violence. People start along strange ways, some to loss or ruin, others to unexpected happiness. The Burning Boywon the New Zealand Book Awards in 1991.'Written with ver ...Show more
The Severed Land by Maurice Gee
20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Age 9-12
This gripping, page-turning fantasy adventure follows a dangerous quest through a divided world. From the high reaches of a tree, Fliss watches the soldiers attempting yet again to break through the invisible wall. Amid the explosions, a drummer boy tries to escape. As he is about to be shot, Fliss reac ...Show more
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