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Don’t we live in America? Rose Lovell-Smith

Posted on March 1, 2012 by NZ Books

A Made-Up Place: New Zealand in Young Adult Fiction Anna Jackson, Geoff Miles, Harry Ricketts, Tatjana Schaefer and Kathryn Walls Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9780864736970 Chapter four of this collection of essays by five authors is called “Utopia”.…

Tagged with: Anna Jackson, Autumn 2012, Geoff Miles, Harry Ricketts, Issue 97, Kathryn Walls, Rose Lovell-Smith, Tatjana Schaefer, Victoria University Press
Posted in Essays, Literature, Non-fiction, Review, Young adults

Doubles and damage, Geoff Miles

Posted on June 1, 2009 by NZ Books

The Magician of Hoad Margaret Mahy HarperCollins, $39.99, ISBN 9781869506872 The Magician of Hoad takes Margaret Mahy into new territory – new for her at least. Her earlier YA novels were set in the real world. A highly-coloured version of…

Tagged with: Geoff Miles, HarperCollins, Issue 86, Margaret Mahy, Winter 2009
Posted in Children, Fiction, Literature, Young adults

Clear but flat, Geoff Miles

Posted on June 5, 1994 by NZ Books

Homer, Odyssey: An Antipodean Translation for the Early Twenty-First Century Brian Dawkins Steele Roberts, $60.00, ISBN 9781927241100 Homer’s Odyssey has been a recurring presence in the literature of our islands, from A R D Fairburn landing Odysseus on the pohutukawa-fringed…

Tagged with: Brian Dawkins, Geoff Miles, Issue 13, Steele Roberts, Winter I 1994
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review