Penzance Literary Festival 2011

 

Penzance Literary Festival took place in the town last week and the library hosted a number of talks and workshops as well as offering Library tours throughout the week.  

Dawn (who conducts our regular Friday afternoon library tours) did a fantastic job and took lots of people around the library, explaining our history and origins, and showing some  unique items from the special collections and archive.  We would also like to thank Ros in particular who was an amazing host, offering visitors tea, coffee and biscuits and doing a mountain of washing up - the best front of house we could ask for.  

The talks and workshops were all well attended and enjoyed- the reading room was packed out for three lectures/workshops a day and all the guest speakers were well received.  So, well done to Peter Levin and his team who co-ordinated and ensured everything ran smoothly - the festival was even bigger and better than last year and we look forward to PZ lit-fest 2012!

Brand new books!

The Book Selection Committee (Annabelle, Sheila, Jenny, George and Eric) met last week: Choosing from members' suggestions and their own reasearch they've ordered thirty-six new titles for the library.  The new books have begun to arrive, and its been a treat to open the boxes (lovely-new-book-smell) and start cataloguing.  List of all the new titles below:

NON-FICTION 

The Naive & Sentimental Novelists (Orham Pamuk), The Arsenic Century (James C. Whorton), Held By The Sea (Jane Darke), Cables From Kabul (Cowper Coles), The Levelling Sea (Philip Marsden), The Russian Court at Sea (Frances Welch), Working The Room (Geoff Dyer), Venetian Navigations (Andrea di Robilant), Adonis to Zorro (Delahunty & Dignen), In Search of a Masterpiece (Christopher Lloyd), The House in France (Gully Wells), The Butterfly Isles (Patrick Barkham), The Smell of Summer Grass (Adam Nicholson), Kiki de Montparnasse (Jose-Luis Bocquet), The Sugar Barrons (Matthew Parker), The Bauhaus Group (Nicholas Fox-Weber)

FICTION

The Troubled Man (Henning Mankell), A Death In Summer (Benjamin Black), Jamrach's Menagerie (Carol Birch), Sex and Stravinsky (Barbara Trapido), Underground Time (Delphine de Vigan), The Last Gift (Abdulrazak Gurnah), A Visit From the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan), Manna From Hades (Carola Dunn), Warhorse (Michael Morpurgo), How To Live (Sarah Bakewell), Mr Chartwell (Rebecca Hunt), The Stranger's Child (Alan Hollinghurst), The Doll (Daphne du Maurier), The Bradshaw Variations (Rachel Cusk), Today (David Miller), On His Majesty's Service (Allan Mallinson), Invisible River (Helena McEwan), The Girl in The Polka Dot Dress (Beryl Bainbridge), King of The Badgers (Philip Hensher), The Mirabelles (Annie Freud)