Special Event: January 6, 2024
Two of Newfoundland’s most respected writers will be on Denman Island January 6: Michael Crummey, author of seven best-selling novels as well as six books of poetry, will present his new historical fiction “The Adversary”.
He’ll be joined by his partner, Holly Hogan, a veteran marine biologist, whose first book “Message in a Bottle: Ocean Dispatches from a Seabird Biologist” has garnered high praise from both critics and readers since its publication this year.
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