Pittenweem Library
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    • Monday 2pm – 5pm
    • Wednesday 2pm – 5pm
    • Friday 10am – 1pm
    • Saturday 10am – 1pm

Latest News

  • Pittenweem Post – Issue 30 – 13 June 2025
    Welcome to the June 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, Robert Adamson’s Hair Design or One Market Place.
  • Eighth birthday – raffle and party
    We will be celebrating our 8th birthday this summer with our traditional birthday party and raffle. Click on the link for details – and come into the library to get your raffle tickets before the party on Friday 11 July.
  • Spring talks update
    We had a highly successful series of spring talks. A huge thank you to our four excellent speakers, Lesley Glaister, Andrew Whitley, Peter Yeoman and Philip Long, and to everyone who came along to listen and support the library. The series raised over £2000 for library funds.
  • Can you help?
    We are always in need of funds so that we can continue to provide free services to our members and to the local community. If you can help with this please click on the link for more details.
  • Pittenweem Post – Issue 29 – 9 May 2025
    Welcome to the May 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, Robert Adamson’s Hair Design or One Market Place.
  • Pittenweem Post – Issue 28 – 11 April 2025
    Welcome to the April issue of Pittenweem Post, the monthly newsletter produced by Pittenweem Community Library. There is lots to enjoy in this issue. Click on the link and enjoy!

Our Latest Book Reviews

  • 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
  • Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
    Just lately bookshops seem to have been invaded by a host of titles about . . . bookshops. Many of these novels are Japanese but some originate closer to home, such as Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Bookshop (1978) and Shaun Bythell’s Diary of a Bookseller (2017). However a hundred years before that, in 1917, Christopher Morley… Read more: Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
  • Blasted Things by Lesley Glaister
    Lesley Glaister doesn’t pull her punches and the reader’s attention is grabbed from the get-go as we stand in the exhausted shoes of Clementine, a nurse struggling to keep sleep at bay in a Casualty Clearing Station and dealing with body parts during the horrors of the First World War. After the war, Clem tries… Read more: Blasted Things by Lesley Glaister
  • With the End in Mind by Kathryn Mannix
    ‘It’s time to talk about dying,’ Kathryn Mannix writes. She has worked in palliative care for many years, and this book is a compendium of encounters she’s had with hospice patients and their families. It is by no means a sad book, though it aims to be a challenging one, to make us think ahead… Read more: With the End in Mind by Kathryn Mannix

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.

Visit Us

  • Old Town Hall, Cove Wynd, Pittenweem, Anstruther KY10 2LE
  • library@pittclic.org.uk
  • 01333 311591