Plumb by Maurice Gee
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
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 destructive ...Show more
Sole Survivor by Maurice Gee
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Sole Survivor brings Maurice Gee's richly entertaining family chronicle up to the present day. The career of Duggie Plum (as ruthless in politics as in sex) is relayed to us with cool, outrageous irony by his journalist cousin, Raymond Sole. Raymond - known to his family as Ramong and to his enemies as ...Show more
The Burning Boy by Maurice Gee
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
"The Burning Boy is 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 ve ...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
The Scornful Moon by Maurice Gee
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Shortlisted for the 2004 NZ Montana Book Awards, Fiction section. Wellington, 1935. James Tinling, a former Cabinet Minister, plans a political comeback, although a brash newcomer stands in his way. James has methods of dealing with upstarts, but is handicapped by secrets in his life. Eric Clifton, worl ...Show more
The House Guest by Barbara Anderson
$10.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good
Robin Dromgoole, the only son of a widowed mother, learns to cook with Emmeline who lives next door. But Lisa on the other side, whom he minded when she was a baby, is the girl he marries. As ususal Anderson's writing is dazzling, she writes from the heart and shoots from the hip.
The Peacocks and other stories by Barbara Anderson
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Summer in the Gravel Pit by Maurice Duggan
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good