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- Our shelves (and storage areas) are full!
A huge thank you to all the generous people who have donated books and DVDs over the past few months. Some of these donations are added to our stock and the rest are sold to raise funds for the library. Our storage space is full at the moment so we are pausing donations until the… Read more: Our shelves (and storage areas) are full! - Pittenweem Post – Issue 36 – 12 December 2025
Welcome to the December 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. Many thanks to the businesses and homes in Pittenweem for their beautifully decorated windows, bringing Christmas cheer to our streets.… Read more: Pittenweem Post – Issue 36 – 12 December 2025 - A new poetry group – East Poetry
A new venture in Pittenweem – the library is hosting a poetry group, East Poetry, on Wednesday evenings 6.30 – 8.00 starting 5 November. This is an independent group using the library as a venue. If you are interested in coming along please email haikueast@proton.me. - Pittenweem Post – Issue 35 – 14 November 2025
Welcome to the November 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. November’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 35 – 14 November 2025 - Book Week Scotland and Scotland the Bread
This year’s Book Week Scotland theme is Friendship and the library will have some free booklets from Scottish Book Trust. In support of this, Andrew Whitley and Marie Louise Cochrane of Scotland the Bread have risen to the challenge and are putting on an event on 20 November at Coastline Church about the companionship of… Read more: Book Week Scotland and Scotland the Bread - 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
Our Latest Book Reviews
- Between River and Sea: Encounters in Israel and Palestine by Dervla Murphy
You may wonder why I am recommending a book when I start off by saying I nearly gave up after the first couple of chapters. It’s by Dervla Murphy, the Irish traveller and writer whom people may remember for Full Tilt, her account of cycling, single, from Ireland to India in 1963. Some may also remember… Read more: Between River and Sea: Encounters in Israel and Palestine by Dervla Murphy - The Lives of Lee Miller by Antony Penrose
Seldom has a book title been more apposite. Lee Miller (born Elizabeth near New York in 1907) really did have a number of lives, sometimes overlapping, sometimes running in parallel, but always fascinating, often fabulous – and for a period during the Second World War, incredibly dangerous. Encouraged to take up photography by her father,… Read more: The Lives of Lee Miller by Antony Penrose - The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey
The List of Suspicious Things is a story about growing up in the 1970s. With Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister it is a difficult time for this working-class community in The North. A first novel by Jennie Godfrey, it is set in Yorkshire and is about two young girls reaching their teens at the time… Read more: The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey - 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
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