Your Unselfish Kindness: Robin Hyde’s Autobiographical Writings Mary Edmond-Paul (ed) Otago University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781877578212 It’s natural in a densely-packed book to look at the photographs first. Robin Hyde was intensely interested in houses and rooms and their…
Lighted Windows: Critical Essays on Robin Hyde Mary Edmond-Paul (ed) Otago University Press, $40.00, ISBN 978877372582 Robin Hyde’s 1938 essay “The Singers of Loneliness”, published out of Shanghai in the T’ien Hsia Monthly, gives an account of the New Zealand…
The Book of Iris: A Life of Robin Hyde Derek Challis and Gloria Rawlinson Auckland University Press, $69.95, ISBN 1869402677 Often the genesis of a biography is as interesting as the work itself. Robin Hyde died in 1939 in London…
The Book of Nadath Robin Hyde (ed Michele Leggott) Auckland University Press, $24.95, ISBN 86940 191 3 We are at another of the threshold times that punctuate historical consciousness, when we look back, take stock, and, through the inevitable process…
Her Side of the Story: Readings of Mander, Mansfield, & Hyde Mary Paul Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 877133 71 X, One of the many problems of Mary Paul’s Her Side of the Story: Readings of Mander, Mansfield,…
Disputed Ground, Robin Hyde, Journalist Gillian Boddy and Jacqueline Matthews (eds), Victoria University Press, $34.95 A book of selected journalism seems an unlikely place to make a serious assessment of a writer. Journalism is regarded as ephemeral, lost in musty…