Paula Bardell-Hedley

The Courage to Begin Without Certainty March: The Courage to Begin Without Certainty March has never been a settled month. It arrives with movement rather than reassurance. One day bright, the next unsettled. The ground softening here, …

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Happy IWD to all the strong, loyal, brave, funny, gorgeous women in our lives! #IWD2026

Third Crime is the Charm # 19 : a Bison Crusade, the Reindeer Police and a man hunt Buffalo Jump Blues by Keith McCafferty (2016) French title : Buffalo Blues. Translated by Marc Boulet. Forty Days Without Shadow by Olivier Truc (2012) Translated by Louise Rogers Lalaurie Original…

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2026 Climate Fiction Prize longlist, and a shoutout to Australian authors of Eco-Fiction Thanks to a heads-up from Stu at Winston’s Dad, here’s the longlist for the 2026 Climate Fiction Prize UK, and hey! there’s three Aussies  nominated (underlined, below) and I&#821…

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Dear March -Come in by Emily Dickinson Welcome to Rebecca’s Reading Room. This is a quiet place where poems are read slowly, not for answers, but for companionship. Here, we return to familiar voices not to explain them away, but to lis…

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Between the Houses in Venice

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Winding Up the Week #462 This week, as International Women’s Day approaches, I look at books read and reviewed, highlight some of the finest literary writing from across the blogosphere, mark a host of notable anniversarie…

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New events for The Austens! First, I want to share a lovely quotation from Joceline Bury, who reviewed my novel in the most recent issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine, which is published in the UK. She writes that “…

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Tove Trove 🎩 Tove Trove Main Index 👜   A gateway to every post and page in the Tove Trove project, charting its journey from 2019 to the present **************************** TOVE TROVE: Introduction &amp…

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– Three Things + #10: Spring Ahoy! This sporadic post covering all manner of things I’ve recently read, watched and done is where I hold forth on matters both serious and silly. You are invited along for the ride.

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My Year of Reading Welshly by Alex Johnson #ReadingWales26 A brief introduction and a few shared thoughts about my book choice for Reading Wales 2026: ‘My Year of Reading Welshly’ by Alex Johnson.

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Meister Eckhart and the Freedom to Begin Again A reflection on ego, creativity, and what it means to be true After spending time with the Venerable Bede, with his care for sources, his honesty about limits, his refusal to claim authority he did…

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Please help protect Nova Scotia’s books, arts and culture, and heritage If you’ve ever enjoyed a visit to Nova Scotia or dreamed of making a trip to our beautiful province, I hope you will consider writing a letter to our Premier to ask him to protect Nova Scotia’s boo…

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Winding Up the Week #461 In this celebratory St David’s Day special, I explore the literary landscape with a distinctly Welsh twist, revisit books read and reviewed, uncover some of the finest writing about literature acro…

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The Window of Wells At the Window of Wells: Belonging, Water, and the Quiet Evolution of Public Space There are places in the world that feel immediately familiar, as if our spirit recognizes them before our mind catc…

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It's a pleasure, Alex. Thoroughly enjoyed your book! 🐚

The kind of review that all writers dream about.

My Year of Reading Welshly by Alex Johnson #ReadingWales26 A brief introduction and a few shared thoughts about my book choice for Reading Wales 2026: ‘My Year of Reading Welshly’ by Alex Johnson.

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Call for papers for collection from 34th Woolf conference The organizers of the 34th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, held in London and Sussex last July on the theme of “Woolf and Dissidence,” invite submissions for the upco…

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Happy St David's Day! Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!😊👍

Short But Sweet: Winding Up the Winter After a somewhat sparse mini‑month, I search for spring on the shelves

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Winding Up the Week #461 In this celebratory St David’s Day special, I explore the literary landscape with a distinctly Welsh twist, revisit books read and reviewed, uncover some of the finest writing about literature acro…

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Listen in for lecture on Woolf and sound March 6 The next Woolf Seminar by the Virginia Woolf Society of Turkey is set for March 6 at 7 p.m. Turkey time, with a lecture from Pamela L. Caughie on “Virginia Woolf in the Age of a New Aurality:…

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Winding Up the Week #460 This week I look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, keep up with a variety of literary anniversaries (including International Book Gi…

More #bookish links coming your way as Paula @bookjotter.bsky.social is Winding Up the Week with #460 in her series:

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A February scrapbook page Putting together last month’s scrapbook page was such fun that I might do this more often, perhaps near the end of the month. We’ll see if the new habit sticks. “Sick but elated” I recently finishe…

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The Diaries are closing down As promised, I made a decision.

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The Venerable Bede and the Ethics of Remembering A reflection on writing, truth, and what we carry forward Before words were fast, they were careful. Long before writing became something we shared instantly, it was an act of patience and devotion…

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Tove Telegraph #ToveTrove In another, hopefully useful, addition to my Tove Trove project, I bring you the latest insights, publication announcements and critical perspectives from the ever‑inspiring world of Tove Jansson&#…

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The Gift of Looking Back When I first began blogging in 2010, I was stepping into a new and unfamiliar space. One shaped by curiosity, uncertainty, and hope. Clanmother began with a single sentence. Hello World. Welcome to…

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What a wonderful sight! Thank you so much, Rebecca. 😊