My Family and Other Rock Stars by UEA alumna Tiffany Murray has been longlisted in the The Mercury Music Prize of Books (11th Penderyn Music Book Prize). Tiffany graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 1999 and completed her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at UEA in 2006. Her first novel, Happy Accidents, was published by Harper Collins in 2004, and her second, Diamond Star Halo, by Portobello Books in 2010. Both novels were shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing. Her third novel, Sugar Hall, was published in 2014 by Seren. Her writing has appeared in Granta, the Guardian, the Telegraph, Sunday Times Style, GQ, Independent on Sunday and featured on BBC Radio 4. Her drama set in Iceland; Hulda’s Café, is available on BBC Sounds. My Family and Other Rock Stars is her first memoir and was published by Fleet in 2024.
Tiffany Murray longlisted for the Mercury Music Prize of Books
