Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living: A Novel PDF
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EVERYMAN’S RULES FOR SCIENTIFIC LIVING Carrie Tiffany was born in West Yorkshire and grew up in Western Australia. She spent her early twenties working as a park ranger in the Red Centre and now lives in Melbourne, where she works as an agricultural journalist. Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living (2005), her first novel, was shortlisted for numerous awards including the Orange Prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Guardian First Book Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and won the Dobbie Award for Best First Book (2006) and the 2005 Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Fiction. Her second novel is Mateship with Birds. Also by Carrie Tiffany Mateship with Birds The characters in this book are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. First published 2005 in Picador by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd This 2012 edition published in Picador by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd Level 25, 1 Market Street, Sydney, NSW 2000 This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. The author gratefully acknowledges the assistance of a Varuna Fellowship. Copyright © Carrie Tiffany 2005 The moral right of the author has been asserted. Photographs reproduced with the permission of the State Library of Victoria. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted by any person or entity (including Google, Amazon or similar organisations), in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, scanning or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data: Tiffany, Carrie. Everyman’s rules for scientific living / Carrie Tiffany ISBN 9781742611495 Young women – Fiction. Married women – Fiction. Rural conditions – Fiction. Scientists – Fiction. Farm life – Fiction. Australia – Fiction. A823.4 Designed by Stephen Banham Typeset by Midland Typesetters Printed and bound in Australia by Griffin Press These electronic editions published in 2012 by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd 1 Market Street, Sydney 2000 Copyright © Carrie Tiffany 2012 The moral right of the author has been asserted. All rights reserved. This publication (or any part of it) may not be reproduced or transmitted, copied, stored, distributed or otherwise made available by any person or entity (including Google, Amazon or similar organisations), in any form (electronic, digital, optical, mechanical) or by any means (photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise) without prior written permission from the publisher. Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living Carrie Tiffany Adobe eReader format 978-1-74334-904-5 EPUB format 978-1-74334-906-9 Online format 978-1-74334-905-2 Macmillan Digital Australia www.macmillandigital.com.au Visit www.panmacmillan.com.au to read more about all our books and to buy both print and ebooks online. You will also find features, author interviews and news of any author events. For TPS, TES & GRT And with heartfelt thanks to KJS. Cover Blurb About the Author Copyright Dedication 1. The Better Farming Train Brings Science to the Man-on-the-Land 2. Frank Finnegan’s Fruit 3. The Folly Cow 4. A Lecturette on Good Soil Husbandry 5. The Honey Car 6. Three Incidents at Jeparit 7. Welcome to Wycheproof 8. The Experimental Kitchen 9. Mr Ohno’s Gift 10. Lillian’s Taste for Soil 11. Afternoon Tea with Doris McKettering 12. Some Thoughts on Fencing 13. Big Ben from the Air 14. A Trainload of Super Phosphate 15. Sister Crock Proclaims the Babies Thin 16. Drought 17. Mr Frogley Blows in with the Drift 18. Wing Fook’s Mare 19. The Death of Folly 20. A Dodgy Merchant and his Dog 21. Sewing for the Fuller Figure 22. At War Again 23. Fire 24. The One-In, All-In Train Brings War to the Man-on-the-Land 25. Mr Ohno’s Letters 26. At the Commercial 27. A Night of Soil 28. Sister Crock Proclaims the Men Fit 29. The Mallee Sunset Fully Booked Carrie Tiffany on Reading Awards and Recognition Read On Carrie Tiffany: The Books That Changed Me The Book Group Reading Guide and Questions for Discussion
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