The Night Watchman is by Louise Erdrich, an American author who is herself a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, and the subject is based on her family’s experiences as Native Americans in the 1950s. It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2021.
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain is by Victoria Mackenzie, a writer who lives in Crail and has tutored at the Creative Writing Summer School at University of St Andrews and the Open College of the Arts. She has had a number of short stories and poems published. Her first novel about two remarkable women has had excellent reviews.
The library will be six this July so please put the date in your diary and help us celebrate. We’ll be having our usual Grand Summer Raffle – this year the star prize will be lunch for two at Craig Millar. Tickets are £1 and will go on sale in the library on 23 June. If you would like to…
If you haven’t yet seen the Pittenweem Post, this is our local newsletter that comes out once a month, usually on the second Friday. The Post is free – just sign up for the digital edition using the subscription form at Subscribe to Crail Matters and it will arrive in your inbox at 8.15 on Friday morning. For people with…
We were very fortunate this season in having four wonderful speakers: Will Cresswell, Sam Parsons, Stephen Gethins and Jo Sharp. The hall was full each evening and we raised over £1900 for the library, so a huge thank you to the speakers and to everyone who came along and supported us. Plans for the autumn series are already underway.