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- Pittenweem Post – Issue 38 – March 2026
Welcome to the March 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 March issue includes: If you have any events you’d like to publicise or stories you’d like to… Read more: Pittenweem Post – Issue 38 – March 2026 - Spring 2026 Evening Talks
The Spring Talks Programme is very varied with a great range of interesting topics. Huge thanks to the talented speakers who so generously come along to entertain and inform us. The talks will be held in our usual venue, Coastline Community Church, Session Street, Pittenweem KY10 2QL.Doors open 7pm, talks start 7.30. Tea, coffee and… Read more: Spring 2026 Evening Talks - Pittenweem Post – Issue 37 – 13 February 2026
Welcome to the February 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 first issue of 2026 includes: And much more including things to do and see this winter! If… Read more: Pittenweem Post – Issue 37 – 13 February 2026 - 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.
Our Latest Book Reviews
- 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 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 - 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 - 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
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