Carrie Tiffany

Carrie Tiffany was born in England and migrated to Western Australia in the 1970s. She worked as a park ranger in the Northern Territory and Victoria and now works as an agricultural journalist.

Carrie’s fiction has been published in various Australian journals, including Overland and Ulittara and in New Australian Writing. Her stories have been highly commended in the Age, University of Canberra, Judah Waten and HQ Flamingo short story awards. In 2002 Carrie won the Australian Book Review Short Fiction Award.

In 2003 her first novel, Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living won the Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. It was published to great reviews in Australia in June 2005 and was published in the UK and US in 2006.

Books by this author

Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living

IT IS 1934, AND aboard the ‘Better Farming Train’, an earthy romance develops between an idealistic scientist and a talented young seamstress.

The unlikely couple settle in the impoverished Mallee with the ambition of proving that science can transform the land. But with failing crops and another world war looming, they are forced to confront each other and the fragile earth around them.

Erotic, wise and funny, this exquisite novel evokes the Australian landscape in all its stark beauty and vividly captures the hope and disappointment of an era.