New December fiction!
We’ve added some exciting new fiction titles this December!
For a more complete list of our recent fiction acquisitions, click here. And for nonfiction, click here.
A Very Jolly Christmas Party
The Morrab was chock full of happy library members last weekend as we celebrated with our 2013 Christmas party. The wine flowed and the table was overflowing with plates of delicious treats.
Members also wandered around our new extension making suitably admiring sounds and looking at some of the images on display in the Photo Archive room.
Poems to Lift the Spirit
Please join the Penzance Ladies’ Book Club for a morning of poetry, wine, nibbles and seasonal good cheer on Saturday 14th December from 10:30am until 12:30pm at the Library.
Your £2 entry fee will go to help support the Library. There will also be books and poetry magazines for sale.
All are welcome. And please bring a favourite poem if you’d like to join in!
Book + Postcard Fair 2013
The Morrab Library will host our annual book and postcard fair in St. John’s Hall, Penzance on Saturday 21st September 2013 from 10am until 4pm.
This well-established and popular event will again see many booksellers and dealers from throughout the South West manning their stalls of new, second-hand and antiquarian books.
This year the Morrab Library will have an additional table entirely devoted to books about Cornwall.
It is a wonderful opportunity for people to rummage and browse through thousands of books, pamphlets and postcards and met friends. This is the place to find new interests and possibly that wonderful book, which you read so many years ago, and then forgot the title and the author!
Light refreshments will be available throughout the day and, as usual, there will be a raffle.
If you love books then this is the place to be, and to be seen, on Saturday 21st of September.
PLEASE NOTE: As a result of the fair the Library will be closed on Saturday 21st September. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Hope to see you at St John’s Hall!
Wednesday Lectures 2013-2014
Below is a list of forthcoming talks for our Wednesday Lecture Series.
2013
Wednesday 9th October, 2.15pm
MICHAEL LEACH: Cornish archers and the history of the longbow
Wednesday 13th November, 2.15pm
TERRY MARKS: 500 years of Penzance harbour
Saturday 7th December, 10.30am – 12.30pm
MORRAB CHRISTMAS PARTY
2014
Wednesday 8th January, 2.15pm
JOHN POTTER – Film: KRUZENSHTERN. From Penzance to Bremerhaven on one of the world’s last sailing ships
Wednesday 12th February, 2.15pm
DAVID DEARLOVE: Joined-up Writers. A chain of acquaintance four centuries long
Wednesday 12th March, 2pm
JANE DARKE – Film: The Art of Catching Lobsters
(N.B. Early start as film is 90 minutes long)
Temporary Library Closure: Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th August 2013
The library will be closed from 1pm on Tuesday 13th August and will remain closed all day Wednesday 14th August whilst the ground in front of the the library is laid with new tarmac. We hope to re-open on Thursday 15th August but please call ahead of your visit to avoid a wasted journey.
Apologies for any inconvenience.
The Canyon
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Vegetable Fun
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Needed Vacation
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