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Maurice Gough Gee is a New Zealand novelist. He is one of New Zealand's most distinguished and prolific authors, having written over thirty novels for adults and children, and has won numerous awards both in New Zealand and overseas, including multiple top prizes at the New Zealand Book Awards, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the UK, the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, the Robert Burns Fellowship and a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement.
Jun 4, 2007 · Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand's finest writers, with more than forty books for adults and young adults and a number of prestigious awards to his credit. Salt is the first volume of The Salt Trilogy. Orca will publish Gool in Fall 2010 and Blood Burrow in Spring 2011.
Jan 1, 1979 · The first Maurice Gee book I've read, because it was a dollar, I like kids books, I liked the one short story I read from him...plus he's quite famous in NZ!I found it pretty hard to put down, and finished it in two sittings. He's got a ton of imagination, his descriptions are great and gross, his pacing is generally pretty exciting.
Set in New Zealand at the beginning of World War I, this novel depicts four children who band together to find out who has been setting fire to buildings all over town. Genres ChildrensHistorical FictionYoung AdultFictionHistorical. 176 pages, Paperback. First published January 1, 1986. Book details & editions.
Jan 1, 1979 · Maurice Gee. While two eleven-year-old twins are vacationing near a supposedly extinct volcano, strange happenings lead them into battle with supernatural creatures. 164 pages, Hardcover. First published January 1, 1979.
Maurice Gee of New Zealand is a novelist and author of children's books. Gee's first book, The Big Season, was published in 1962. He has since produced nearly two dozens novels and collections of short stories and his work has appeared in such publications as Arena, Mate, Landfall, Islands, and Listener.
Feb 8, 2001 · 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 long been regarded as one of the most autobiographical of Maurice Gee's novels.
