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Salt by Maurice Gee
19.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Salt Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
A rejacketed new edition of the first instalment of Maurice Gee's breathtaking Salt series. 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 anima ...Show more
Salt by Maurice Gee
17.95 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Salt Trilogy | Reading Level: Very Good
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
Scornful Moon by Maurice Gee
28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Wellington, 1936. James Tinling, a former cabinet minister, plans apolitical comeback, and although a brash newcomer stands in his way, James has methods of dealing with people who stand up to him. Eric Clifton has secrets too: he lives hot-bloodedly and is at war with patrician James. Sam Holloway reco ...Show more
The Burning Boy (Penguin Award Winning Classics) by Maurice Gee
29.99 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 Champion by Maurice Gee
17.99 NZD
18.99 (5% off)
Category: Young Adult Fiction
What do you answer when people say, 'Who was the most important person you've ever known?'...It was Jackson Coop. He changed my life - Jackson and the things that happened in those two weeks. It is summer 1943 in a small New Zealand town, and a wounded American soldier is coming to stay with 12-year-ol ...Show more
The Champion by Maurice Gee
12.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Puffin Books | Reading Level: very good
The story of one man's dramatic impact on a small community, this novel was written by the author of The Halfmen of O which won the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year Award in 1983. It is summer 1943 in a small New Zealand town, and a wounded American soldier is coming to stay with Rex and his fami ...Show more
The Fat Man by Maurice Gee
16.95 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Colin Potter is a skinny boy, hungry for chocolate. Herbert Muskie is enormously fat, hungry for revenge. A dramatic encounter down at the creek forges an unhappy alliance between the vindictive man and the fearful child. But who is the fat man and why does he hate the people of Loomis? What guilty secr ...Show more
The Fat Man by Maurice Gee
22.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Reading Level: 13+
When people like Herbert Muskie take up residence in your mind, there's nothing you can do to get them out. Colin Potter is a skinny boy, hungry for chocolate. Herbert Muskie is enormously fat, hungry for revenge. A dramatic encounter down at the creek forges an unhappy alliance between the vindictive m ...Show more
The Fire-Raiser by Maurice Gee
16.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Reading Level: very good
He let the matchstick burn, knowing the power in his hand...flame filled the inside of his head. It ran along his arteries. It licked around his bones.Kitty Wix is knocked over as a strange loping figure is seen fleeing the burning stables. But who is the 'fire-raiser' and why is he creating such terror ...Show more
The Halfmen of O by Maurice Gee
14.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Puffin Books | Reading Level: very good
On holiday, Susan is spirited away down a disused mineshaft by Odo and his Deathguard. Her dangerous adventures provide exciting fantasy for older readers. Winner of the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year Award 1982 Paperback (A Format)
The Halfmen of O (#1 The O Trilogy) by Maurice Gee
21.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: O Trilogy | Reading Level: good
'Nick had seen the birthmark on Susan's wrist. It had two parts. Each was shaped like a tear drop, curved like a moon. One was bright red and the other golden brown.' Susan had always been a bit odd and never really got on with her cousin Nick, but the mark on her wrist draws them together in a frighten ...Show more
The Limping Man (Salt #3) by Maurice Gee
21.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: Salt Trilogy | Reading Level: Very Good
The third instalment of Maurice Gee's breathtaking Salt series - now rejacketed. What is the source of the Limping Man's monstrous power? Nobody can withstand it, a soft crawling that seeps into your skin and wriggles into your mind, making you powerless with love for him even as his cruelties multiply ...Show more