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, Lee found herself in Paris…
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.
Welcome to the November 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. November's issue includes: Three new interpretive panels telling the story of Pittenweem Priory have been installed by the East Neuk of Fife Preservation Society Pittenweem's…
This year’s Book Week Scotland theme is Friendship and the library will have some free booklets from Scottish Book Trust. In support of this, Andrew Whitley and Marie Louise Cochrane of Scotland the Bread have risen to the challenge and are putting on an event on 20 November at Coastline Church about the companionship of bread and books. Entry is…
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 of the Yorkshire Ripper murders.…