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Blindsight by Maurice Gee
Category: Fiction
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
Blindsight by Maurice Gee
Category: Fiction
Blindsight is the story of a good though damaged man and his less than virtuous sister. As their childhood closeness unravels, Alice moves into her career in science (she's a mycologist), while Gordon descents into vagrancy and silence. For more than thirty years they do not meet. Then a young man appea ...Show more
Crime Story by Maurice Gee
Category: Fiction
Worlds separate Brent Rosser from Ulla Peet, but a burglary gone wrong brings them into a confrontation that will change their lives ? and end one of them, or perhaps both. There are many crimes in this chilling novel ? brutal murder, corporate fraud, domestic violence and spiritual bankruptcy. Thr ...Show more
Crime Story by Maurice Gee
Category: Fiction
A reissue of Maurice Gee's classic novel timed to coincide with the NZ release (September 2004 of the Larry Parr film Fracture, which is based on this novel.Worlds separate Brent Rosser from Ulla Peet, but a burglary gone wrong brings them into a confrontation that will change their lives - and end one ...Show more
Ellie and the Shadow Man by Maurice Gee
Category: Fiction
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
Going West by Maurice Gee
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
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 West has ...Show more
In My Father's Den by Maurice Gee
Category: Fiction
Whea Inverarity, aged seventeen, is found brutally murdered in a secluded West Auckland park one Sunday afternoon, Paul Prior, her English teacher and mentor, is suspected of being her murderer. Celia's death and the violence which follows send Prior back to examine the past − a past that is as secret a ...Show more
Live Bodies (Popular Penguin) by Maurice Gee
Category: Classic | Series: Popular Penguins
As a young man in the 1930s, Josef battled the Nazis on the streets of Vienna. He fled to New Zealand, only to be interned as a dangerous enemy on Somes Island in Wellington Harbour. After the war, he rebuilt his life and married Nancy. Despite his success, Josef still stands askew from his times. In hi ...Show more
Memory Pieces by Maurice Gee
Category: Ockham Book Awards
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 by Maurice Gee
Category: Fiction | Series: O Trilogy 3
For Susan and Nick the adventure at last seems at an end. They are leaving the 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