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  • Under the Mountain

    by Maurice Gee ...
    Winner of the Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-loved Book, this thrilling children's novel is an enduring classic. Beneath the extinct volcanoes surrounding the city, giant creatures are waking from a spellbound sleep that has lasted thousands of years. Their goal is the destruction of the world. Rachel and Theo Matheson are twins. Apart from having red hair, there is nothing remarkable about them - ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Halfmen Of O: The O Trilogy Volume 1

    The O Trilogy Volume 1

    by Maurice Gee ...
    The first volume of Maurice Gee's acclaimed trilogy wherein Susan and Nick are transported to the terrifying land of O... '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 ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Creeks and Kitchens

    A Childhood Memoir

    by Maurice Gee ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    Widely regarded as one of New Zealand’s greatest fiction writers, Maurice Gee has written virtually no non-fiction. The exceptions are the two exquisite childhood reminiscences combined here into a memoir in this BWB Text.In this little known work, Gee describes in fascinating detail his boyhood and family life in West Auckland and offers illuminating insights into some of the creative forces ... Read more

    $3.02 USD

  • Motherstone: The O Trilogy Volume 3

    by Maurice Gee ...
    In the third novel of Maurice Gee’s acclaimed trilogy, Susan and Nick engage in a last desperate quest for O. 'King,' they said, trying out the word, 'Osro is King. 'Now, stand up,' Osro said. 'Take me to Susan's door. You are my hands and I am your head. Soon O will be ours.' 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 ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • The Priests of Ferris: The O Trilogy Volume 2

    by Maurice Gee ...
    In the second volume of Maurice Gee’s acclaimed O Trilogy, Susan must stop terrible things being done in her name... Face the High Priest. Face him alone. That was why she was back on O. To end the religion grown up in her name. Susan Ferris and her cousin Nick return to the world of O, which they had saved from the evil Halfmen, only to discover that a hundred years have passed and O is now ruled ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • The Burning Boy (Penguin Award Winning Classics)

    by Maurice Gee ...
    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 Boy won the New Zealand Book Awards in 1991. 'Written with verve and economy, Maurice Gee's novel has a wealth of penetratingly observed incidents, some ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • The Severed Land

    by Maurice Gee ...
    This gripping, page-turning fantasy adventure follows a dangerous quest through a divided world. From the high reaches of a tree, Fliss watches the soldiers attempting yet again to break through the invisible wall. Amid the explosions, a drummer boy tries to escape. As he is about to be shot, Fliss reaches through the wall and pulls him to safety. But Fliss is dismayed to find she has saved an ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Audiobook

    In My Father's Den

    by Maurice Gee ...
    Narrated by Maurice Gee ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 43 min

    When Celia 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 - which proves as secret as his father's den in the old poison shed. Eventually the murderer is exposed, but not before ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Access Road

    by Maurice Gee ...
    The old family home in Access Road, where Lionel, Roly and Rowan grew up, is crumbling away – but after more than fifty years Lionel and Roly are back. Rowan, too, safe in 'upper crusty' Takapuna, is drawn more and more strongly 'out west'. The past is dangerously alive. Clyde Buckley, violent as a boy, enigmatic, subterranean as an old man, returns to his childhood territory. What does he want? ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

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  • Prowlers

    by Maurice Gee ...
    Prowlers is a picaresque journey through an agile mind and a richly populated memory: and through the town of Jessop, whose roots lie back in the early years of the century. Noel's repossession of the past leads to some unexpected discoveries. He sees himself as a prowler at the window; and now and then an occupant reaches out and takes his hand, or tugs him in... ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The Fire-Raiser

    by Maurice Gee ...
    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 terror? Kitty has her own suspicions, and so do other children in the town. When the crazed man with ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • The Champion

    by Maurice Gee ...
    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-old Rex and his family. Rex is full of expectations, but from the moment Jackson steps down from ... Read more

    $8.09 USD