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Blindsight by Maurice Gee
$30.00 NZD
Category: 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
Gool (Salt #2) by Maurice Gee
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children | 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
Memory Pieces by Maurice Gee
$21.00 NZD
$35.00 (40% off)
Category: Discounted Non-Fiction (selected titles) at 40% off RRP
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
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children | 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
Plumb by Maurice Gee
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Maurice Gee's acclaimed novel Plumbwas the winner of the Wattie Book Award and the New Zealand Fiction Award. His brilliant picture of the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb is regarded as one of the very finest New Zealand novels.
Plumb (Popular Penguin) by Maurice Gee
$15.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 destr ...Show more
Salt by Maurice Gee
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children | 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
The Burning Boy (Penguin Award Winning Classics) by Maurice Gee
$29.99 NZD
Category: 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 Fire-Raiser by Maurice Gee
$17.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand | 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 terr ...Show more
The Halfmen of O (#1 The O Trilogy) by Maurice Gee
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children | 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: Children | 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
The Priests of Ferris (#2 The O Trilogy) by Maurice Gee
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children | Series: O Trilogy | Reading Level: good-very good
Susan Ferris and her cousin Nick return to the land of O, which they had saved from the evil Halfmen, only to discover that a hundred years have passed and O is now ruled by cruel and ruthless priests. Susan is inspired by dreams and prophecies to face the most dreadful dangers and free the inhabitants ...Show more