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- Fishing Life in Pittenweem
Regular readers of our Facebook page will know we’ve been featuring Pittenweem fishing boats on ‘Fishing Boat Fridays’. These posts have generated quite a bit of interest and so we are now delighted to be hosting an exhibition of these, and many more, photographs. The exhibition will run from Wednesday 8 to Monday 27 July… Read more: Fishing Life in Pittenweem - The 2026 Book Hunt is on
Hidden around Pittenweem, in waterproof (we hope) pouches, are books to be found! This is great fun for children aged up to about 10 years and for their adults too. Find a book, take it home and read it, then hide it away again in the village for the next finder. This is managed for… Read more: The 2026 Book Hunt is on - Pittenweem Post – Issue 41 – June 2026
Welcome to the June 2026 issue of the 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. Our June issue includes: And so much more! If you have any events you’d like to publicise… Read more: Pittenweem Post – Issue 41 – June 2026 - Pittenweem Post – Issue 40 – May 2026
Welcome to the May 2026 issue of the 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. Our May issue includes: If you have any events you’d like to publicise or stories you’d like… Read more: Pittenweem Post – Issue 40 – May 2026 - A Lifetime’s Theatre Going
This exhibition of theatre programmes is starting on Monday 13 April, running until Saturday 25 April. Click on the link to see more about this fascinating glimpse into theatre life. - Pittenweem Post – Issue 39 – April 2026
Welcome to the April 2026 issue of the 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. Our April issue includes: If you have any events you’d like to publicise or stories you’d like… Read more: Pittenweem Post – Issue 39 – April 2026
Our Latest Book Reviews
- D.I. Kelso Strang series by Aline Templeton
This is a recommendation for all the readers of the crime fiction series written by Elly Griffiths, Martin Walker and Marion Todd who are wondering who to move on to next. Author Aline Templeton was brought up in Anstruther, where her father was rector of Waid Academy. Her sister was the wife of Alasdair Kennedy,… Read more: D.I. Kelso Strang series by Aline Templeton - The Family Friend by Claire Douglas
A brand-new hardback on the library’s New Stock table is very hard to resist and having picked up Claire Douglas’s The Family Friend over the Easter break, I found myself compelled to read on at lots of random intervals over the next week. Bedtimes got later and later. Imogen, the central character, finds she has… Read more: The Family Friend by Claire Douglas - Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
I first came across Katherine Rundell when she won the Waterstones Children’s Book prize in 2015 for Rooftoppers, a compelling tale about Sophie who lives with other street children amidst the rooftops of Victorian Paris. Katherine has spoken about her own escapades as a Night Climber among the rooftops of various Oxford colleges while an… Read more: Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell - How to Kill a Witch by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi
This combines a well-researched history of Scotland’s witch trials with fictional accounts of the human stories behind the trials. Written with a lot of necessarily black humour, as the full title suggests, there’s a strong focus on the evils of the patriarchy. The book draws a lot on James VI’s book Demonology. I’d known about… Read more: How to Kill a Witch by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi - The Cracked Mirror by Chris Brookmyre
This is Chris Brookmyre’s 25th novel and I happily admit to reading at least half of them, all with the greatest enjoyment. The Cracked Mirror does not disappoint with a provoking meld of Agatha Christie- and Raymond Chandler-like characters confronting the technology of the 21st century. Our two sleuths are Penny Coyne, elderly pillar of… Read more: The Cracked Mirror by Chris Brookmyre - The Postcard by Anne Berest
This acclaimed French novel, published in English in 2023, is a tour de force. A work of auto fiction, it tells the story of Anne Berest’s family – a story both fascinating and shocking that enthrals the reader from start to finish. It is a tale of a Jewish family seeking safe sanctuary as Nazism… Read more: The Postcard by Anne Berest
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