Medi-Culture welcomes Dean Mark Oakley and best-selling writer Michelle Lovric for an evening of black humour and dark history, marking the release of Michelle's new novel, The Puffin. 

A standalone sequel to her acclaimed The Book of Human Skin, the book fuses coercion, resistance and a subversive take on faith across 19th-century Venice, the New World and the Lofoten Islands. Expect a fiendishly gripping plot, an unforgettable cast (not all of them human), and a lively exchange between a poetical priest and an irreverent writer on bad sex, good faith, and how to write both.

Michelle Lovric: Born in Sydney and now dividing her time between London and Venice, Michelle has published eleven novels set in Venice and Southwark, known for their gothic humour and unflinching look at faith and the body. Her adult novels include The Book of Human Skin (a TV Book Club pick) and The Remedy (longlisted for the Women's Prize). She co-authored My Sister Milly and a play about the 2017 London Bridge terror attack, performed at Southwark Cathedral on its first anniversary.