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Access Road by Maurice Gee
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
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 | Reading Level: very good
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
Blindsight by Maurice Gee
$31.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Widely acclaimed when first published, Maurice Gee's Blindsight is now regarded as one of the master's finest novels and one of the best novels published in New Zealand in the past couple of decades. Reviewer Dennis Welch suggests it may be Gee's best work of fiction since the highly regarded Plumb. Gee ...Show more
Creeks and Kitchens: A Childhood Memoir by Maurice Gee
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
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
Crime Story by Maurice Gee
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Worlds separate Brent Rosser from Ulla Peet, but a burglary gone wrong brings them into a confrontation that will change their lives ? and end one of them, or perhaps both. There are many crimes in this chilling novel ? brutal murder, corporate fraud, domestic violence and spiritual bankruptcy. Thr ...Show more
Going West by Maurice Gee
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
For all the promise of his name, Jack Skeat cannot be a poet. His friend Rex Petley - eel-catcher, girl-chaser, motorbike rider - takes that prize.Is he also a murderer?And why, forty years later, does he drown out on the Gulf? Jack has to find out, and so, decades later, is drawn to examine their lives ...Show more
Gool by Maurice Gee
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Series: Salt Trilogy 2 | Reading Level: Very Good
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
Gool (Salt #2) by Maurice Gee
$21.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Series: Salt Trilogy
A new edition of the second installment of Maurice Gee's breathtaking Salt series. 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 gravely ill with a fragment of a str ...Show more
Hostel Girl by Maurice Gee
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
A chilling story of obsessive love set in Lower Hutt in 1955.
In My Father's Den by Maurice Gee
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good
Whea Inverarity, aged seventeen, is found brutally murdered in a secluded West Auckland park one Sunday afternoon, Paul Prior, her English teacher and mentor, is suspected of being her murderer. Celia's death and the violence which follows send Prior back to examine the past − a past that is as secret a ...Show more
Live Bodies by Maurice Gee
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
As a young man in Vienna in the 1930s, Josef Mandl was a member of underground left-wing groups battling the Nazis. In New Zealand during the Second World War Mandl is judged a communist agitator and interned on Somes Island along with several other Germans and Italians. Josef makes two unsuccessful att ...Show more
Memory Pieces by Maurice Gee
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
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 Road' is Gee's sto ...Show more