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Gee-whizz, Roger Robinson

Posted on March 11, 2015

Maurice Gee: A Literary Companion: Fiction for Young Readers
Elizabeth Hale (ed)
Otago University Press, $35.00,
ISBN 9781877578847

Maurice Gee published Under the Mountain in 1979. It was a success in print and on TV, but for some years it was possible to regard it, and his subsequent work for young readers, as a sideline, a paying Saturday morning job that freed him for the serious adult writing. Times have changed.

Tagged with: Autumn 2015, Elizabeth Hale, Issue 109, Maurice Gee, Otago University Press, Roger Robinson
Posted in Literature, Non-fiction and Review

The mundane and the marvellous, Adrienne Gavin

Posted on June 1, 2006

Marvellous Codes: The Fiction of Margaret Mahy ed Elizabeth Hale and Sarah Fiona Winters Victoria University Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864735162 Any addition to critical publications on Margaret Mahy is to be welcomed. Elizabeth Hale’s and Sarah Fiona Winters’ Marvellous Codes:…

Tagged with: Adrienne Gavin, Elizabeth Hale, Issue 74, Margaret Mahy, Sarah Fiona Winter, Victoria University Press, Winter 2006
Posted in Literature and Non-fiction