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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!
Talks in our Spring 2025 season
- 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 - 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
Our Latest Book Reviews
- 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 - 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
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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