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Collected Stories by Maurice Gee
$10.00 NZD
Category: NZ Literature | 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.
Going West by Maurice Gee
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Literature | Reading Level: very good
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 Westhas l ...Show more
Loving Ways by Maurice Gee
$13.50 NZD
Category: NZ Literature | Reading Level: good-very good
May, David and Alan Macpherson have the same father but different mothers, and their paths in life have been enormously different. The three have come together after thirty-five years at the Nelson orchard of their dying father, Robert Macpherson. The old tugmaster, domineering and earthy still, is bein ...Show more
Plumb (Popular Penguin) by Maurice Gee
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic 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
Sole Survivor by Maurice Gee
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Literature | 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
$13.50 NZD
Category: NZ Literature | 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
The Burning Boy (Penguin Award Winning Classics) by Maurice Gee
$13.50 NZD
Category: NZ Literature
"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
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