Frank Macdonald, columnist, poet, songwriter, playwright and novelist, was born in Inverness, Cape Breton, where he and his partner, artist Virginia McCoy, now live. For the past 30 years he has penned a weekly column as a humourist/satirist with Inverness Oran newspaper and other Maritime publications. His columns have appeared in two collections, Assuming I’m Right (Cecibu 1990), and How to Cook Your Cat (Cecibu 2003). In 1992, Mulgrave Road Theatre produced a one-man play, Assuming I’m Right, written by Macdonald depicting the a day in the life of a columnist and his cat. Macdonald’s first novel, A Forest for Calum (CBU Press), was published in 2005. A children’s novella, T.R.’s Adventure at Angus the Wheeler’s (CBU Press) was released in 2010. A second novel, A Possible Madness (CBU Press) came out in 2012. In 2015, Tinker & Blue was published.
On Aug. 26th at 7pm, Frank will be reading selections from his novels A Forest for Calum, A Possible Madness, and Tinker & Blue.
Free admission.
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