Classic Kiwi novels X4 Plumb - Maurice Gee Maurice Gee's acclaimed novel Plumb was the winner of the Wattie Book Award and the New Zealand Fiction Award. His brilliant picture of the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb is regarded as one of the very finest New Zealand novels Live Bodies - Maurice Gee Mister Pip – Lloyd Jones The novel was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007; it won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best book in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific and the Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry and 2008 it won the Kiriyama Prize for books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia The God Boy – Ian Cross