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Motherstone (#3 The O Trilogy) by Maurice Gee
$21.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
Orchard Street by Maurice Gee
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
Some very strange things are happening in Orchard Street. Ossie's dad is doing something illegal under the house; everyone is talking about the waterfront strike; adults are behaving in odd ways towards each other - and Ossie is falling in love
Plumb by Maurice Gee
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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: NZ historical 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
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Series: Salt Trilogy | Reading Level: Very Good
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 animals. When his father, Tarl, is taken as a slave and sent to the mine known as Deep Salt, from ...Show more
Salt by Maurice Gee
$21.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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
Scornful Moon by Maurice Gee
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Wellington, 1936. James Tinling, a former cabinet minister, plans apolitical comeback, and although a brash newcomer stands in his way, James has methods of dealing with people who stand up to him. Eric Clifton has secrets too: he lives hot-bloodedly and is at war with patrician James. Sam Holloway reco ...Show more
The Burning Boy (Penguin Award Winning Classics) by Maurice Gee
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ 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 Champion by Maurice Gee
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
What do you answer when people say, 'Who was the most important person you've ever known?'...It was Jackson Coop. He changed my life - Jackson and the things that happened in those two weeks. It is summer 1943 in a small New Zealand town, and a wounded American soldier is coming to stay with 12-year-ol ...Show more
The Fat Man by Maurice Gee
$19.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Reading Level: 13+
When people like Herbert Muskie take up residence in your mind, there's nothing you can do to get them out. Colin Potter is a skinny boy, hungry for chocolate. Herbert Muskie is enormously fat, hungry for revenge. A dramatic encounter down at the creek forges an unhappy alliance between the vindictive m ...Show more
The Fire-Raiser by Maurice Gee
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | 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
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | 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