In our Book of the Week,   Shining Land: Looking for Robin Hyde by Paula Morris and Haru Sameshima, the writer and the photographer visit a series of locations in New Zealand in an attempt to capture something of the experiences there of Iris Wilkinson/Robin Hyde, brilliant, desperate, still refreshingly unassimilable to the literary canon. This is a thoughtful, moving, and beautifully produced book, full of sharp observations about the New Zealand literary community and wider society that made life difficult for this unconventional woman. 
>>Paula Morris talks about the book. 
>>On Sameshima's photographs. 
>>In the footsteps of Robin Hyde. 
>>Look inside the book. 
>>Lloyd Jones launches the book. 
>>About the collaboration. 
>>In the same series: High Wire by Lloyd Jones and Euan Macleod.