The Godwits Fly

Literature & Fiction

Hyde, Robin

Contemporary

Auckland University Press

<p>Follow this distinguished author down the rabbit hole as she discovers the barbaric realities of the Japanese occupation of China in the late 1930s. A war that would eventually merge with World War Two is painted with the lyrical prose that only Robin Hyde could deliver. Hyde is a lone female journalist desperately evading the Japanese censors to send her accounts to Woman To-Day. She was the very first female journalist to visit these parts of China during this time. She encounters death, poverty, sickness and brutality as well as pockets of kindness on her journey. Experience this once in a lifetime adventure with Robin Hyde as your guide into the unknown and exotic. A treasure to read.</p>

Dragon Rampant

History

Asia

AG Books

<p>San Bernardino, Just Around the Corner, Compassion in San Bernardino, NWMS Reading Books, 1999</p>

Just around the corner: Compassion in San Bernardino (NWMS reading books)

Nazarene Pub. House

Step back to a time where New Zealand is vast, exotic and undiscovered. The romance of becoming a ruler, possibly even a king in this unclaimed land seems easily achievable. At least this is what Baron Charles de Thierry must have felt when he named himself Sovereign Chief of New Zealand. The story of this french adventurer is also the story of a young New Zealand and his adventures are retold as though the author herself witnessed it. Robin Hyde's clever merging of historic events and fictional “what ifs” creates a masterpiece. Hyde tells the tale well and with her usual lyrical and colourful style. A historical must-read.

Check to your king (New Zealand classics)

Genre Fiction

Golden Press

This is the great "lost" prose poem of one of New Zealand's most famous writers. Written sixty years ago and never published, Nadath was well ahead of its time; its concerns reflect many modern ones such as race and gender issues.

The Book of Nadath

Poetry

First published in 1938, this novel conveys the intense feelings of an adolescent in love, poetry and England. It pictures life in early 20th-century Wellington, its physical details, emotional tensions, muddle and variety.

The Godwits Fly (117)

Persephone Books Ltd.

The Godwits Fly is a highly autobiographical coming-of-age novel by one of New Zealand's most celebrated poets. It follows the development of Eliza Hannay as she negotiates growing up in early twentieth century Wellington. The ever inquisitive Eliza encounters love, family tension, a love of poetry, and, like the migrating godwits described in the forward, an inherited pull towards the motherland, England.

Wildwood Publishing

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The Godwits Fly

Dragon Rampant

Just around the corner: Compassion in San Bernardino (NWMS reading books)

Check to your king (New Zealand classics)

The Book of Nadath

The Godwits Fly

The Godwits Fly (117)

The Godwits Fly