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1st novel, Footnotes to Sex (Viking/Penguin) set London/Paris ('Seinfeld meets Dorothy Parker' - Bidisha)

2nd novel: AND HOW ARE THINGS WITH YOU, set in London and Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington is due from Mākaro Press in September 2026, in time for World Suicide Prevention Day 2026

Mia Farlane’s first novel Footnotes to Sex (Viking/Penguin), was praised in The Observer for its ‘keen emotional intelligence’; Sarah Waters describes the writing as ‘subtle, smart and very funny’; and Bidisha, as ‘Seinfeld meets Dorothy Parker’.

Mia Farlane worked for several years at Southbank Centre’s National Poetry Library and is now writing full-time.

She is a translator-contributor in No, Love Is Not Dead: An Anthology of Love Poetry from Around the World
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Kathryn Ryan interviews Mia Farlane on Radio New Zealand

Mia Farlane’s radio interview for her UK-NZ novel And How Are Things With You (Mākaro Press) — with Kathryn Ryan on Nine To Noon, RNZ ❤️ 30 mins listening time 🎧

Here is RNZ’s intro text to this interview:


"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 tran

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Average rating: 2.2 · 64 ratings · 22 reviews · 1 distinct work
Footnotes to Sex

2.20 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions
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When It Is Darkest by Rory  O’Connor
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One of the kindest and most helpful books I have read on suicide awareness is When It Is Darkest: Why People Die by Suicide and What We Can Do to Prevent It (Vermilion, 2021) by Rory O’Connor.

Former President of the International Association for Suic
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How Not to Kill Yourself by Set Sytes
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I am grateful to have discovered this helpful and funny survival guide: How Not To Kill Yourself: a Survival Guide for Imaginative Pessimists (Microcosm Publishing) by Set Sytes.

Set Sytes says this about tragedy and humour:

‘A good joke never underm
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Loss Adjustment by Linda Collins
Loss Adjustment
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A beautifully written helpful book, ‘full of the strangeness of extreme grief’ (NZ author, Doctor Lucy O’Hagan), I’d place Loss Adjustment alongside Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking.
In 2021, Linda Collins was a guest at a London-based onli
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Mia Farlane Below is a link to read my bilingual review about 'Next to Nothing Can Cause Some Hearts to Fail' (Flammarion, 2021) by Gilles Paris

Voici une courte chronique en français et en anglais re 'Certains cœurs lâchent pour trois fois rien : de l’ombre vers la lumière' (Flammarion, 2021) par Gilles Paris

http://farlaneonfrenchwriters.com/gil...


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