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Latest News
- Pittenweem Post – Issue 27 – 14 March 2025
Welcome to the March issue of Pittenweem Post, the monthly newsletter produced by Pittenweem Community Library. There is lots to enjoy in this issue, including news about the re-establishment of the Pittenweem Community Council, Kellie Castle, primary school children performing at Caird Hall, the Coal Farm Diary, Hamish Brown and the Anstruther Philharmonic. - Spring 2025 – a new series of talks
We are very excited to introduce our Spring 2025 series of talks. Once again we have a fantastic line up of speakers who have kindly agreed to support our Community Library in this way. The line up is: Talk 1 – 3 April – Lesley Glaister, novelist – Writing the War Talk 2 – 24… Read more: Spring 2025 – a new series of talks - Pittenweem Post – Issue 26 – 14 February 2025
In the Pittenweem Post this month there is an update on the Pittenweem and District Community Council; its achievements, its sad dissolution, and now a CALL TO ACTION. If you love your community then please consider getting involved – details are in the Pittenweem Post. Check out how the British Divers Marine Life Rescue teams… Read more: Pittenweem Post – Issue 26 – 14 February 2025
Talks in our Spring 2025 season
- Spring 2025 – Lesley Glaister – 3 April
We are very excited to introduce our Spring 2025 series of talks. Once again we have a fantastic line up of speakers who have kindly agreed to support our Community Library in this way. Talk 1 – 3 April – Lesley Glaister, novelist – Writing the War Lesley Glaister is… Read more: Spring 2025 – Lesley Glaister – 3 April - Spring 2025 – Andrew Whitley – 24 April
We are very excited to introduce our Spring 2025 series of talks. Once again we have a fantastic line up of speakers who have kindly agreed to support our Community Library in this way. Talk 2 – 24 April – Andrew Whitley – Cereal Offender: stories from the struggle against… Read more: Spring 2025 – Andrew Whitley – 24 April - Spring 2025 – Peter Yeoman – 8 May
We are very excited to introduce our Spring 2025 series of talks. Once again we have a fantastic line up of speakers who have kindly agreed to support our Community Library in this way. Talk 3 – 8 May – Peter Yeoman – Sick Picts at the May Monastery: evidence… Read more: Spring 2025 – Peter Yeoman – 8 May - Spring 2025 – Philip Long – 22 May
We are very excited to introduce our Spring 2025 series of talks. Once again we have a fantastic line up of speakers who have kindly agreed to support our Community Library in this way. Talk 4 – 22 May – Philip Long – The work of the National Trust for… Read more: Spring 2025 – Philip Long – 22 May
Our Latest Book Reviews
- 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 - The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan
Anyone who has read Flanagan’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North will know how intensely he researches his subject, how he draws the reader into his narrative and how one is left considering the subject matter long after the novel is over. His writing is uncompromising and often heartbreaking, but his observation… Read more: The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan - Spies by Michael Frayn
I have so many unread books already in the house and so many books that I want to read that it can be rather irksome when a book group choice is something you have already read, and you need to read it again. (Although not as irksome as when it turns out to be something… Read more: Spies by Michael Frayn - Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid
One of my Christmas presents was a slim volume called Queen Macbeth, written by Val McDermid, published in 2024. In the author’s notes at the beginning, she says that we know very little about the real Macbeth, or Macbethad, and that Shakespeare’s play bears no relation to the few facts we do know. She felt… Read more: Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid - Arnhem: Black Tuesday by Al Murray
Al Murray is a highly successful English stand up comedian who created the comic character The Pub Landlord, a bombastic opinionated oaf whose message is ‘England is the best, all foreigners are rubbish’. Of course it is satire, with laughter the best form of criticism. But the real Al Murray was head boy at a… Read more: Arnhem: Black Tuesday by Al Murray
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