Pittenweem Library reviews
Shuggie Bain is an award-winning novel, which in 2020 became only the second Scottish winner of the Booker prize. In the words of the judges 'We were bowled over by this first novel, which creates an amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.'
And the Land Lay Still by the novelist and poet James Robertson won the 2010 Scottish Book of the Year award and has since been recognised as a classic exploration of 20th century Scottish politics and society.
Emeritus Professor Anthony Lodge, already well-known locally for his interesting talks and guided walks based on the history of Pittenweem Priory, has just published an absorbing and meticulously well-researched and referenced account of the Priory since its founding through to the present day.
Review of A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Review: DCI Sophie Allen series of crime novels by Michael Hambling
An Empire in the East, by Norman Lewis
Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn
Review: Vaughan Williams: Composer, Radical, Patriot – a Biography. by Keith Alldritt
Erewhon is Samuel Butler’s attempt to write a utopian ‘travelogue’
Review: The Silk Roads: a new history of the world, by Peter Frankopan
