Tell You What: Great New Zealand Nonfiction 2015

Tell You What

Great New Zealand Nonfiction 2015

Edited by Jolisa Gracewood and Susanna Andrew

Paperback, 198 x 130 mm

256pp, 978 1 86940 824 4

Publication - 17 November 2014, $29.99

 On blogs and Twitter, in magazines and journals, at prizegivings and pōwhiri, New Zealanders have been talking and writing about the world right now. We’ve been producing essays and articles, speeches and submissions, tweets and travelogues – nonfiction, in other words. 

This book collects some of New Zealand’s best true stories from the past year or so together into an anthology. 

And tell you what: we’re swimming in it. We’ve got basic training and a brown cortina, cannibal snails and a swim at Kim’s. We’ve got syringes and cycling, marriages and mother’s day. We’ve got Steve Braunias, Eleanor Catton, Tina Makereti, Keith Ng and a whole lot more.

About the Editors

Jolisa Gracewood has a PhD in Comparative Literature from Cornell University. While in the US, Jolisa taught students at Cornell and Yale how to write essays and non-fiction prose; co-edited two anthologies of Japanese short stories for advanced learners; and wrote about books for her local newspaper and for New Zealand magazines. In her blog, Busytown (part of the Public Address community of blogs), she wrote about raising her two sons in New York City and New Haven, CT. Since moving back to New Zealand with her family in 2012, Jolisa has worked as a literary editor, book reviewer, literary festival panelist, and freelance urban activist, and still subscribes to the New Yorker magazine.

Susanna Andrew has spent most of her working life in and around the book trade: in publishing, in bookshops, and in libraries. She has travelled extensively as a bookseller in the United Kingdom and Europe, and spent five years living in Berlin with her late husband Nigel Cox. As communications manager for the New Zealand Book Council, she founded the ‘True Stories Told Live’ initiative. She currently edits the book pages for Metro Magazine while raising three children.