"And how are things with you?", can be polite question that's often a perfunctory response to someone asking the very same thing. It's also the title of New Zealand writer and translator Mia Farlane's...

Holly Walker reviews two books: And How Are Things with You? by Mia Farlane (Makaro Press), and The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton (Te Herenga Waka University Press).

Mia Farlane’s And How Are Things With You is a darkly comic and quietly searching novel about suicide, loneliness, return and the strange inadequacy of ordinary conversation. Its title has the rhythm ...

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In connection with World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD), I’ve taken a photo of some of the books that might interest the protagonist in my novel And How Are Things With You (Mākaro Press).

The eagerly awaited, darkly funny and life-affirming new novel from number one bestselling author Dawn French

In June, thanks to Iona Winter, I’ll have two signed books to give away: an anthology and a poetry collection.

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Artist and book cover designer Todd Atticus is parked up in the window of Unity Books in Wellington this week, designing cover artwork for Mia Farlane's new novel And How Are Things With You in real t...

I'm completing the equivalent of 2,000 push-ups in 23 days to raise awareness & funds for the Mental Health Foundation NZ .

Theatre-maker and facilitator Libby Taylor from our Volunteer Collective reflects on adopting a trauma-informed approach to arts reviews, highlighting the significant impact that feedback from critics...

Tabitha Smith, Future Radio Norwich in conversation with Liz Day, Norfolk Grief Tending

Are you subscribed to the Farlane on Writing newsletter ? If so, you’re in the February draw to win a copy of Loss Adjustment (Awa Press, 2020) signed by the author Linda Collins .

Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

Linda Collins is poet, nonfiction and fiction writer, and editor, known for her suicide memoir about her daughter,Victoria McLeod, titled Loss Adjustment. A transnational writer (New Zealand/Singapor...