Pittenweem Library reviews
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
As Rachel Clarke says, this is the tale of a boy, a girl and the heart they share. It is also a story of love, of an immense generosity, of…
I had mixed feelings about this book. It started off as easy reading which is always a bonus for me! It read rather like a succession of diary entries but…
