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Live Bodies by Maurice Gee
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand 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
$18.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature
Sdecondhand. 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 Ro ...Show more
Motherstone (#3 The O Trilogy) by Maurice Gee
$6.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: O Trilogy | Reading Level: good-very good
For Susan and Nick the adventure at last seems at an end. They are leaving he magical land of O, the scene of The Halfmen of O and The Priests of Ferris. But even as they prepare to step back to earth, strange and evil forces reach out to ensnare them. For Susan - and for the Motherstone - there is one ...Show more
Nelson Central School A History by Maurice Gee
$20.00 NZD
Category: Regional | Reading Level: good-very good
Plumb by Maurice Gee
$45.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: 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
Salt by Maurice Gee
$7.00 NZD
Category: 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
Sole Survivor by Maurice Gee
$25.00 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
Sole Survivor by Maurice Gee
$8.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Plumb Trilogy | Reading Level: good-very good
Sole Survivor by Maurice Gee
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
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