Saturday 13 October 2018



Our Book of the Week this week is Memory Pieces by Maurice Gee (published by Victoria University Press). 
The book is comprised of three memoir portions: `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 Road' is Gee's story up to the age of eighteen, when his apprenticeship as a writer began. `Running on the Stairs' tells the story of Margaretha Garden, beginning in 1940, the year of her birth, when she travelled with her mother Greta from Nazi-sympathising Sweden to New Zealand, through to her meeting Maurice Gee when they were working together in the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1967. 
>> Gee talks about the contents of the book
>> Read an extract
>> The cover was designed by Keely O'Shannessey
>> Read Rachel Barrowman's superb biography Maurice Gee: Life and work
>> Watch an interview with this Honoured New Zealand Writer. 
>> Plumb was this year named The Great New Zealand Novel of the last fifty years
>> Several of Gee's books have been made into films
>> And a TV series!
>> The man in the grey cardy.
>> Books by Maurice Gee at VOLUME
>> Next time you're on the banks of the Maitai River, sit in the chair dedicated to Gee by the Top of the South branch of the NZSA. 

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