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Latest News
- Pittenweem Post – Issue 34 – 10 October 2025
Welcome to the October issue of the post, the monthly newsletter produced by Pittenweem Community Library. You can download it here or pick up a copy from the library, Barnetts bakery or One Market Place. October’s issue includes: and much more! If you have any events you’d like to publicise or stories you’d like to… Read more: Pittenweem Post – Issue 34 – 10 October 2025 - Get creative at our spooky craft workshop!
Join us for some frightful fun at our Halloween Craft Workshop on Wednesday 22 October at 10.30am. This is a free session for kids who are in classes P1 to P7. If you are under 7, please bring an adult with you and tell them not to be too scared. If you’re 7 or over… Read more: Get creative at our spooky craft workshop! - Reminiscence Café is back
As autumn and winter draw in, the Reminiscence Café is back in the library on the first Monday of the month – see details in the poster (click the picture or title here – or pop along to the library to get details). You’ll get a very warm welcome and a hot cuppa to go… Read more: Reminiscence Café is back - Autumn 2025 – a new series of talks!
We are once again delighted to introduce our new season of talks for Autumn 2025. We are really lucky to have another fantastic line up of speakers who have kindly agreed to support our Community Library in this way. There is something for everyone here, including an important local history anniversary, a look at the… Read more: Autumn 2025 – a new series of talks! - Pittenweem Post – Issue 33 – 12 September 2025
Welcome to the September issue of the post, the monthly newsletter produced by Pittenweem Community Library. You can download it here or pick up a copy from the library, Barnetts bakery or One Market Place. September’s issue includes Fife Doors Open days, the Fife Seaweed Fest, Pittenweem’s Blue Plaques, business focus: The Woolly Brew, harvest… Read more: Pittenweem Post – Issue 33 – 12 September 2025 - Pittenweem Post – Issue 32 – 15 August 2025
Welcome to the August issue of Pittenweem Post, the monthly newsletter produced by Pittenweem Community Library. You can download it here or pick up a copy from the library, Barnetts bakery or One Market Place. August’s issue includes Reflections on the Pittenweem Arts Festival, Pittenweem: A History and Guided Walk, the Scrabble club at the… Read more: Pittenweem Post – Issue 32 – 15 August 2025
Our Latest Book Reviews
- The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke
As Rachel Clarke says, this is the tale of a boy, a girl and the heart they share. It is also a story of love, of an immense generosity, of two families lifted beyond their imaginings. For most of human history our heart is essentially Us. For a French surgeon it was ‘the chief mansion… Read more: The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke - The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
I had mixed feelings about this book. It started off as easy reading which is always a bonus for me! It read rather like a succession of diary entries but was given poignancy as it was written in the first person by Briseis, a Queen of Troy. She was captured by the Greeks and given… Read more: The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker - There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
Rare is the book of 480 pages where I have read and savoured every single word and which has given such satisfaction and food for thought. I found best-selling novelist Elif Shafak’s latest work, There are Rivers in the Sky, to be simply superb. Her writing is beautiful and wise. Shafak covers a huge sweep… Read more: There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak - The Place of Tides by James Rebanks
You may have noticed that the eider ducks are back in Pittenweem and soon we will see the females with their creches of ducklings. This book, The Place of Tides, tells the story of women in a remote part of Norway who live with breeding eider ducks in order to collect the down from discarded nests.… Read more: The Place of Tides by James Rebanks - A Tidy Ending by Joanna Cannon
Our reviews on the website are normally anonymous but this one was written by Isobel, who sadly died shortly after writing the review for us. As many of you will know Isobel was a huge supporter of the library. Even though she was less able to get to the library recently, she still sent in… Read more: A Tidy Ending by Joanna Cannon - Munich Wolf by Rory Clements
Coincidentally I was reading this thriller as Holocaust survivors and the world marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. I found this a sobering coincidence. The action (the murder of an upper middle class young Englishwoman living in Germany to learn the language) is set against the sobering backdrop of 1935 Munich and… Read more: Munich Wolf by Rory Clements
Our book reviews are sent to members and subscribers every 3 weeks (or so). Above are some of our recent reviews. Click on any of the titles to read the full reviews and also search for any of our past reviews by clicking on Reviews at the top of any page. You can subscribe to our book review newsletters here.
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