Marvellous Codes - The Fiction of Margaret Mahy

Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2005. Good secondhand condition.

Margaret Mahy is one of the great New Zealand writers. Marvellous Codes focuses on Mahy's novels for young adults.

Leading local and international scholars explore some of the multifarious themes of Margaret Mahy's extraordinary young adult novels. Essays include: Solid All the Way Through: Margaret Mahy's Ordinary Witches, Telling Stories of Desire: The Power of Authorship in The Changeover and The Amber Spyglass and Gardening in Eden: Margaret Mahy's Postcolonial Ghosts and the New Zealand Landscape.