Tag Archives: Young Adult
Reviews
Humanising the Robot: a review of Bernard Beckett’s Genesis
In the days of the Last War, oil is running out and plagues ravage the populations. The islands of Aotearoa are the final haven for human civilisation. Their saviour, Plato, builds the Republic, which sees five great threats to order: Impurity of Breeding, Impurity of Thought, Indulgence … Read more
Interviews
Leanne Hall: “You can tell a story in so many different ways”
Melbourne bookseller Leanne Hall won last year’s Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing for her beguiling debut novel, This is Shyness. KYD associate editor Jo Case spoke to her on the eve of the book’s publication – about the book, the tenuous boundary between adult … Read more
