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Access Road by Maurice Gee
37.00 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
30.00 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
Blindsight by Maurice Gee
35.00 NZD
36.00 (2% off)
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
Creeks and Kitchens: A Childhood Memoir by Maurice Gee
14.99 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
29.95 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
Crime Story by Maurice Gee
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A reissue of Maurice Gee's classic novel timed to coincide with the NZ release (September 2004 of the Larry Parr film Fracture, which is based on this novel.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 ...Show more
Ellie and the Shadow Man by Maurice Gee
34.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This superb novel from the bestselling Maurice Gee is the story of Ellie. It is a story in five parts, each languishing on a significant period of her life. It ranges from the 1950s when, as a girl, she lived in a YWCA hostel in Lower Hutt, to her twenties where she lives on a commune in Nelson, through ...Show more
Going West by Maurice Gee
28.00 NZD
30.00 (6% off)
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
19.95 NZD
Category: Young Adult 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 Gee, Maurice
15.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
A letter for Gloria was waiting in the rack. The envelope looked ordinary - Miss Gloria Wood written in ink - but Ailsa knew that crazy words lay hidden inside.Ailsa takes a dislike to Calum Page from the day she is invited to play tennis with his sister. The Pages looks down on her because her mother i ...Show more