Tiffany Murray is a novelist. Her first two novels, Happy Accidents (4th Estate: 2014) and Diamond Star Halo (Portobello: 2010) were shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. Diamond Star Halo tells the story of Halo Llewelyn and her unconventional family who run a recording studio in rural Wales: a story of first love and rock n' roll it drew comparisons with Dodie Smith's I Capture The Castle. Her third novel, Sugar Hall (Seren: 2014) is set on the Welsh border and explores the inheritance of slavery in a post-war rural landscape. It was listed in ‘David Mitchell’s 6 Favourite Ghost Stories’ (The Week).

Tiffany has been a Hay Festival fiction fellow, a Fulbright scholar and Senior Lecturer. She is currently working on a memoir, The Rock n’ Roll Cook about her early years sharing a childhood and home with rock stars. She is also adapting Diamond Star Halo as a feature. Tiffany continues academic research in the areas of Caribbean literature and women’s studies. David Bowie’s music is her first love and probably her last.