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Passport to Hell by Robin Hyde
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Military | Reading Level: Near Fine
Passport to Hell is the story of James Douglas Stark--Starkie--and his war. Journalist and novelist Robin Hyde came across Starkie while reporting in Mt Eden Gaol in the 1930s and immediately knew she had to write his 'queer true terrible story'. The result was greeted by John A. Lee, war veteran, autho ...Show more
The Book of Nadath by Robin Hyde (ed Michelle Leggott)
24.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
The Book of Nadath" is a long prose poem by well-known poet and novelist Robin Hyde which has remained unpublished for 60 years. Written in 1937, Hyde's last year in New Zealand, it is a sounding device for all the concerns which mark "The Godwits Fly", "A Home in This World" and "Nor the Years Condemn" ...Show more
The Uppish Hen & other poems by Robin Hyde
25.00 NZD
Category: Children's Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
In 1934, four-year-old Derek Challis found a homemade book in his Christmas stocking. On the typed pages bound with pink ribbon were poems written for him by his mother, the writer Robin Hyde. Derek - known as Derry - treasured the gift and could recite the poems until his death in 2021. Hyde hoped the ...Show more
Your Unselfish Kindness - Robin Hyde's Autobiographical Writings by Robin Hyde; Mary Edmond-Paul (ed.)
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Robin Hyde's extraordinary but short life (1906-39) included a precocious early career as poet and parliamentary reporter. As a journalist, she juggled writing for the social pages with highly political reporting on unemployment, prison conditions and the alienation of Maori land. She struggled with dru ...Show more
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