Event Details
- Location: Southwark Cathedral
- Address: London Bridge, London, SE1 9DA
- Start date: 20th October 2026
- End date: 20th October 2026
- Times: 18:30
- Entry fee: From £5
Join Dean Mark Oakley and best-selling writer Michelle Lovric for an evening of black humour and dark histories as we celebrate the release of her latest book, The Puffin.
This standalone sequel to her acclaimed novel The Book of Human Skin joyously breaks the rules of literary and historical fiction, fusing the politics of coercion, surrender and resistance with a subversive take on faith, language and consciousness.
The novel spans a vividly imagined 19th-century Venice, the New World and the Lofoten Islands.
Featuring a cast of unforgettable characters – not all of them human – The Puffin’s fiendishly gripping plot is full of comically sadistic twists and turns.
Step inside a world of villainy and Venetian decadence and see what happens when a poetical priest and an irreverent writer trade ideas on bad sex, good faith and how to write both.
