Tell You What

Great New Zealand Nonfiction 2015

Jolisa Gracewood, Susanna Andrew

• Publisher: Auckland University Press
• Year: 2015
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781775587774
• Subtopic: Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

A fantastic collection of recent nonfiction essays, Tell You What contains live, wild, true stories from contemporary New Zealand. On the web and the wireless, in magazines and journals, at prizegivings and powhiri, New Zealanders are writing about the world. Essays and articles, speeches and submissions, tweets and travelogues—this book collects some of New Zealand's best nonfiction from the past year into one anthology. Featuring New Zealand writers such as Steve Braunias, Lara Strongman, Eleanor Catton, and Tina Makereti, it explores a range of subjects, from mountain climbing and family secrets to cannibal snails and dangerous swims.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Anthony Byrt: What I’m Reading
• Eleanor Catton: The Land of the Long White Cloud
• Giovanni Tiso: My Own Private Aotearoa
• Lara Strongman: A Song From Under the Floorboards
• David Haywood: What Not To Expect
• Nic Low: Ear to the Ground
• Megan Clayton: The Needle and the Damage Done
• Naomi Arnold: Mother’s Day
• Greg Bruce: The Desperate Quest: How Auckland’s Property Market Drove Me to the Edge of Insanity
• Steve Braunias: About an Egging
• Leilani Tamu: Notes on Cultural Diplomacy
• José Barbosa: My Swim with Kim
• Ashleigh Young: Small Revolutions, or: On My Bike in London
• Paul Ewen: The King and I
• Tina Makereti: He Taonga te Reo: How ngā Kupu Māori Contribute to New Zealand Writing in English
• Rachel Buchanan: There’s a Buried Forest on My Land
• Simon Wilson: Mutton
• Keith Ng: The Sound of Thunder
• David Winter: The Origin and Extinction of Species
• Claire Browning: Spring Forward
• Alice Te Punga Somerville: Shine Bright Like a Moko: The History of Rihanna’s Tattoo
• David Herkt: Paul
• Gregory Kan: Borrowed Lungs
• Allan Smith: What I learned from Momo: or, When is a house a stand of trees?
• Jemima Diki Sherpa: Three Springs
• Sarah Bainbridge: Speak Up Small Red Thing
• Elizabeth Knox: Margaret Mahy, Hero
• Alice Miller: Digesting Ourselves
• Chris McDowall: How to Get Lost
• About the Contributors
• Acknowledgements