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A Glorious Morning, Comrade - Stories by Maurice Gee
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
A Special Flower by Maurice Gee
$65.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
Access Road by Maurice Gee
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | 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
Collected Stories by Maurice Gee
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
A collection of stories exploring moments in the lives of ordinary people, including The widow, Schooldays, Eleventh Holiday, and Buried Treasur Old Bones.
Creeks and Kitchens: A Childhood Memoir by Maurice Gee
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | 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
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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. Through ...Show more
Ellie and the Shadow Man by Maurice Gee
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand 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
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
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 is drawn to examine their lives. Going West has ...Show more
Gool by Maurice Gee
$8.00 NZD
Category: 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