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Latest News
- One Thousand Members
The 1,000th member has just joined the Pittenweem Community Library. This major milestone was a cause for celebration for our library chair, Helen Mathers, who presented the lucky joiner, Robyn Melrose, with a book token and a bottle of fizz. Robyn’s daughters, Maisie and Mollie, are already regulars at the library’s Bookbug sessions on Saturdays,… Read more: One Thousand Members - Plaque Unveiled
A ‘Blue Plaque’ celebrating John Smith, Scotland’s most ingenious clockmaker, has been unveiled at 19 High Street, Pittenweem. Toby and Kate Anstruther of Balcaskie did the honours and speaches were given by David Jones, furniture historian, and Eric Young, clockmaker. Two of John Smith’s longcase clocks were brought along to the house next door to… Read more: Plaque Unveiled - Pittenweem Post – Issue 44 – September 2026
Welcome to the September 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. The September issue includes:• A Pittenweem childhood – Doris Moffat remembers• Pittenweem Tennis Club success• A fond… Read more: Pittenweem Post – Issue 44 – September 2026 - Pittenweem’s latest blue plaque
A fourth commemorative plaque will be erected in Pittenweem in September to celebrate another of our renowned past residents. This one will be at the previous home of John Smith, internationally recognised designer, innovator, master craftsman and producer of extremely high-quality time pieces. One of John Smith’s longcase clocks with a moon phase dial is… Read more: Pittenweem’s latest blue plaque - Pittenweem Post – Issue 43 – 14 August 2026
Welcome to the August 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. The August issue features this year’s Pittenweem Arts Festival and includes: And much more! If you have… Read more: Pittenweem Post – Issue 43 – 14 August 2026 - Tales from the Cave 2026
St Fillan’s Cave is the exciting location for this popular Festival event, which Pittenweem Library revived in 2022. Costumed characters tell the stories, with added songs and fun activities. The surroundings and atmosphere of the Cave are a key attraction for the children, enhanced by spooky lighting. (See full timetable at the bottom of the… Read more: Tales from the Cave 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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