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This event is part of the Sefydliad Diwylliannol - Cultural Institute series
Tiffany Murray
Speaker's BiographyTiffany Murray's writing has appeared in Granta, the Guardian, the Telegraph, Sunday Times Style, GQ, Independent on Sunday and featured on BBC Radio 4. Her novels, 'Diamond Star Halo', 'Happy Accidents' and 'Sugar Hall', have variously been shortlisted for the Wodehouse Bollinger Prize and received the Roger Deakin Award for nature writing. Tiffany has been a Hay Festival Fiction Fellow, a Fulbright scholar, and a Senior Lecturer. Her drama set in Iceland; 'Hulda’s Café', is available on BBC Sounds. 'My Family and Other Rock Stars' is her first memoir.
From: 9 Oct 2025, 6 p.m.To: 9 Oct 2025, 7 p.m.
Location: Waterstones, 17 Oxford Street, Swansea SA1 3AG, Other
It's the late 1970s and Tiff lives with her mum, Joan, at Rockfield, the iconic recording studios. This place of legend, where some of the most famous rock albums of all time were recorded, is the background to a freewheeling, ever-changing whirlwind of a childhood. Tiff's days are spent running around the farm, making friends with local wildlife and helping out with the endless array of dishes her mum creates to keep the bands fed. She's looking for a dog, she's looking for a father; but the one constant throughout is her and Joan, building an unconventional family in the most unlikely of locations.
'My Family and Other Rock Stars' is Tiff's remarkable, truly unique story of growing up in a rural idyll, of Cordon Bleu cookery and of a childhood where the chances of bumping into Freddie Mercury playing piano, or a group of Hell's Angels turning up to record for Lemmy, or even the hope of David Bowie appearing, were as normal as hopscotch and homework.
Contact: Cultural Institute (Email: cultural-institute@swansea.ac.uk)
Website: https://bit.ly/tiffrocks
Event created by: m.t.hughes