Fiona McFarlane

Nov 20, 2024 | tfn.scot | Fiona McFarlane

Fiona McFarlane on the significant relationship between children's mental health and educational attainmentBefore joining Place2Be in March, I worked at The Promise Scotland and I’ve found a striking similarity between work to improve educational attainment and work to keep the Promise to care experienced young people. High levels of support, significant political ambition and leadership, lots of flowers blooming all over the Scotland, but perhaps not on a wholescale basis.

Aug 22, 2024 | dailyrepublic.com | Fiona McFarlane |Hamilton Cain

Halfway through “Highway Thirteen,” her ingenious, scalp-tingling collection of linked stories, Fiona McFarlane serves up “Democracy Sausage,” composed of an eight-page sentence, narrated by Chris Biga, an Australian politician standing for election in 1998. Just days before, another Biga, named Paul, was arrested for a series of murders committed during the 1990s, along a wooded road south of Sydney.

Aug 21, 2024 | kansascity.com | Fiona McFarlane

Halfway through "Highway Thirteen," her ingenious, scalp-tingling collection of linked stories, Fiona McFarlane serves up "Democracy Sausage," composed of an eight-page sentence, narrated by Chris Biga, an Australian politician standing for election in 1998. Just days before, another Biga, named Paul, was arrested for a series of murders committed during the 1990s, along a wooded road south of Sydney.

Aug 19, 2024 | startribune.com | Hamilton Cain |Fiona McFarlane

FICTION: Fiona McFarlane’s collection of linked stories probes lives devastated by an Australian serial killer. August 19, 2024 at 12:30PMFiona McFarlane (Andy Barclay/Farrar Straus & Giroux)Halfway through “Highway Thirteen,” her ingenious, scalp-tingling collection of linked stories, Fiona McFarlane serves up “Democracy Sausage,” composed of an eight-page sentence, narrated by Chris Biga, an Australian politician standing for election in 1998.

Aug 18, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Michele Hewitson |Fiona McFarlane |Peter Swanson |Louise Ward

Photos / SuppliedHighway 13by Fiona McFarlane From a window in a house in the Australian suburbs, a woman called Eva watches from her wheelchair the demolition of a house on her street. It is known as the Biga House. A journalist arrives. She had interviewed Eva five years ago, for a book she wrote on the Australian serial killer Paul Biga, who had lived in that house. She had turned up to talk to Eva just after the arrest.