Download or read book Salt written by and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2007-06-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a dangerous world, Deep Salt strikes terror into the heart of everyone. 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 where no worker ever returns, Hari vows to save him.Pearl is from the ruling families, known as Company, which has conquered and enslaved Hari's people. Her destiny involves marriage that will unite her family with that of the powerful and ambitious Ottmar. But Pearl has learned forbidden things from Tealeaf, her maid, and will never submit to a subordinate life.A long journey through the badlands towards Deep Salt finds Pearl and Hari united for a common cause. It soon becomes clear that the survival of their people depends entirely upon the success of Pearl and Hari's mission.

Download or read book Gool written by Maurice Gee and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2008-06-02 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen years have passed since Pearl from Company and Hari from Blood Burrow defeated the tyrant Ottmar. Now their children, Xantee and Lo, face an even more dangerous foe. Hari lies dangerously ill with a fragment of a strange creature wrapped around his throat, draining his life. The beast is called Gool, meaning Unbelonger. It is one of many, destroying the mountains and jungles of the world. Somewhere a hidden mother nourishes her Gool brood - the children must find and destroy her to save Hari and the world they know. Tealeaf the Dweller tells them of a thousand-year-old legend in which a similar beast is vanquished. The place where they might learn the legend's missing knowledge is in the library in the ruined city of Belong. There is only one person who can guide them there: Tarl, the Dog King, Hari's father. Xantee and Lo, accompanied by Duro, a brave and practical youth who is also a 'speaker', set out on a dangerous mission that takes them through the jungle and over mountains to the ruined city, and on to Ceebeedee, where a terrifying clash with the cruel rival leaders and lurking Gool awaits them.

Download or read book Plumb written by Maurice Gee and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 destructive in his utter self-absorption. What personal...

Download or read book Going West written by Maurice Gee and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 long been regarded as one of the most autobiogr...

Download or read book Live Bodies written by and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 his chosen home he is both an insider and an outsider, and the past has become a place in which to escape and perhaps even to resolve the troubles of the present.

Download or read book Halfmen Of O written by Maurice Gee and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2005-10-05 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 them together in a frightening adventure. They are summoned to the beautiful land of O in a last-ditch attempt to save the planet from cruel Otis Claw and his followers, the evil Halfmen, who have lost every trace of human goodness and kindness. Also available as an eBook

Download or read book In My Father s Den written by Maurice Gee and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 sh...

Download or read book The Fire Raiser written by and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 fire in his head strikes again, the children find themselves in terrible danger. A thrilling children's classic from the award-winning author of The Fat Man, Salt and Gool. Also available as an eBook

Download or read book Under the Mountain written by Maurice Gee and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 - or so they think. They are horrified to discover that they ...

Download or read book The Limping Man written by and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2010-03-29 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the source of the Limping Man's monstrous power? Nobody can withstand it, a soft crawling that seeps into your skin and wriggles into your mind, making you powerless with love for him even as his cruelties multiply. When Hana's mam chooses to swallow frogweed poison rather than die in the great witch-burning in People's Square, Hana flees the burrows before she too is taken. Deep in the forest she meets Ben, son of Lo, and the two journey back to the burrows to find a way to destroy the Limping Man before his evil consumes the world. But first they must discover the secret of his strength. Also available as an eBook

Download or read book The Priests of Ferris The O Trilogy Volume 2 written by and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2005-10-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 by cruel and ruthless priests. Susan is inspired by the dreams and prophecies related to her to face the most dreadful dangers and free the inhabitants of O. Also available as an eBook

Download or read book The Fat Man written by and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2008-11-24 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 man and the fearful child. But who is the fat man and why does he hate the people of Loomis? What guilty secrets are hidden in the past and why are Colin's parents such special targets? A taut thriller from the award-winning author of The Fire-Raiser, Salt and Gool. Also available as an eBook

Download or read book Blindsight written by and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Ferry is a retired Wellington scientist, a mycologist (fungi is her thing). One day a young man knocks on her door. Adrian is a great-nephew she never knew she had, the grandson of her brother Gordon. As her story unfolds we learn of her childhood with Gordon in West Auckland and of the divergent paths their lives have taken. While Alice has gone on to have a successful career, Gordon has mentally deteriorated to the point where he is a silent derelict living on the streets of Wellington. Adrian wants to meet him. But Alice resists.As Adrian persists, Alice becomes more and more edgy. What is she hiding from her nephew? How has Gordon ended up in this state? And what does Alice have to do with it? Blindsight shows Gee the master playing with characters and complex story structures with immense skill.

Download or read book Prowlers written by and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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...

Download or read book Games of Choice written by Maurice Gee and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kingsley Pratt is fortyish, a bookseller in a small New Zealand town. It is Christmas. But this year the social rituals of the seaon strain to cover the tensions beneath,. His daughter with her hairy English academic lover, his ruthless son Malcolm, his brittle wife are all intent on pursuing their own games of choice - Kingsley may interfere at his peril. ..."--Back cover.

Download or read book The Severed Land written by Maurice Gee and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 overfed rich boy. She is even more dismayed to learn that she must accompany him back through the wall on a special mission to rescue the Nightingale. The world they have to travel through is a perilous one, full of predatory thieves, slave masters, beggars, dippers, mudlarks, drain-sliders, spies and wall-men. It is a world where the ruling families are caught up in a lethal power struggle. Will Fliss and the despised drummer boy learn to trust each other? Who is the Nightingale? And will they all make it back alive?

Download or read book Scornful Moon written by and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2005-04-04 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wellington, 1935. James Tinling, a former cabinet minister, plans a political comeback, although a brash newcomer stands in his way. James has methods of dealing with people who stand up to him, but is held back by the secrets in his life. Eric Clifton, world-renowned moon scientist, has secrets too. He lives hot-bloodedly and is at war with patrician James. Sam Holloway, literary man and moralist, records their year with its sexual intrigues, sudden violence and the overturning of the political norms. What role does the young poet Owen Moody play? And what about brothel madam Lily Maxey? There's James's daughter Charlotte, painting desperately in a shed at the bottom of the garden. The Scornful Moon deftly recreates the moral and political mood of Wellington in the 1930s. Constantly surprising the reader, it combines drama and suspense with a master writer's exquisite story telling. Also available as an eBook