Bridget Whelan

unexpected situations can be avoided. Icelandic Writers Union sent its members an email about this Artists Residency in an uninhabited island in Åland. There is no running water, no electricity, and apparently another issue. But they p…

unexpected situations can be avoided. Would you apply for a writing residency here....I was ok up to the point it mentioned snakes
ididnthavemyglasseson.com/2025/09/11/u...

Brighton and Hove A level students beat national average 12 years running Provisional A level results suggest that sixth form students in Brighton and Hove have outperformed the national average again this year. Brighton and Hove City Council said: “The city’s A level results have been on or above the national average for the last 12 years, with 98.7 per cent of A-level students in Brighton and […]

Brighton and Hove A level students beat national average 12 years running

Upcoming available social housing units advertised on our Choice Based Letting website include:
Tralee - 3 Bedroom Property
Killarney - 3 Bedroom Property

Submit expressions of interest to be considered for these properties before midnight Wednesday 16 July 2025 at the link below:

cbl.kerrycoco.ie

Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Forestry England manages over 100,000 acres of land that used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger th...

🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

Double Room - Anne Sénès | Blog Tour Extract | Translated by #AliceBanks | #DoubleRoom | #AnneSenes @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours - My Reading Corner When his life falls apart after a horrific tragedy, a composer returns to his native France, where he creates an AI machine with his dead wife’s voice, with unexpected, devastating consequences… Londo...

On today's blog tour for #DoubleRoom by #AnneSenes (translated by #AliceBanks) I have an extract to share

www.myreadingcorner.co.uk/2025/06/doub...

Publishing 19 June with @orendabooks.bsky.social

#BookSky💙📚 #bookblogger #literaryfiction #speculative

@nancyplatts.bsky.social
Dear Miss Nancy
I would consider it an honour if you could attend the launch of my 1830s guide to Love, Life & Laxatives. It is essential reading if you're heartbroken, a downtrodden maid or need to iron a handkerchief properly.
Mrs Finnegan
bit.ly/3ZEDAci

What style!

Novella a Day in May 2025: No.26 A Friend from England – Anita Brookner (1987) 172 pages Anita Brookner is one of those authors I keep meaning to get back to. I was too young when I read Hotel du Lac; when I read Family and Friend…

Novella a Day in May 2025: No.26 madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/05/26/n...

Today on the podcast I interview Joe Abercrombie about his brand new book #TheDevils. Links to listen: podfollow.com/quick-book-r...
#joeabercrombie #booksky

French cover of In Defence of the Act

Delighted to see the cover for the French translation of In Defence of the Act by Effie Black

Coming soon from @legospeleditions

Can’t wait to hear what the French reading community think of ‘En Finir Avec Les Jours Noirs’

#books #booksintranslation #frenchbooks #book #bookcommunity

Off to The Regency Town House in Hove for the last week of my Writing History course. Fascinating group of students writing about nurses in the Crimea war, a shipwreck off the Moroccan coast early 1900s, London music hall in 1920s and much more...
rth.org.uk/whats-on

16th cast copper alloy decorated lock plate, or escutcheon, as found on the Thames foreshore. It looks as if it has been prised off the box or casket it was originally attached to.

If finds could talk, I’m sure this one could tell a tale or two.

#mudlarkingfinds #mudlark #Mudlarking

MY NEW BOOK IS OUT NOW!
Available from bookshops and all the usual online outlets. Link in my biog.

#mudlarking #mudlark #larking

The Kellerby Code by Jonny Sweet: A Book Club Discussion About the Book In a world he can’t afford, Edward is just about getting by. He spends his days scurrying after his friends, doing everything to prove his value. But not to worry; the attentio…

The Kellerby Code by Jonny Sweet: A Book Club Discussion whatcathyreadnext.co.uk/2025/05/09/t...

Housework – usually performed by women – is the work that it is not noticed until it hasn’t be done.
I suspect that NO ONE in the history of time has EVER said:

That is a remarkably dust-free bit of wainstcoting.

Mrs Finnegan, The Regency Town House housekeeper

pathos Visit the post for more.

pathos wronghands1.com/2025/04/22/p...

Moon Madness by Andrew Wyeth: art for writers A painting by one of the most popular American artists of the 20th century,  Andrew Wyeth (1917 – 2009). A writing exercise linked to this painting has to be about capturing the atmosphere. And, fo…

wp.me/p2EeQv-4Id
A writing exercise linked to this painting has to be about capturing the atmosphere. And, for that reason, I think it’s also about verbs. They are a powerful and economical way of describing what it feels like to be there: the goal of all good writing.

She would never be lonely again…QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes) From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was…

wp.me/p2EeQv-5NX

Sometimes Mrs Finnegan WISHES she wasn’t a housekeeper Housework – usually performed by women – is the work that it is not noticed until it hasn’t be done. I suspect that NO ONE in the history of time has EVER said: That is a remarkab…

Mrs Finnegan, the Brighton housekeeper from the 1830s, has just published her reaction to arrival of the new butler.

I remembered my manners.

Welcome, Mr Cubbage, I said.
And I didn’t let the word wig pass my lips.

wp.me/p2EeQv-9vd

If you love your library, listen up…

Terry Pratchett on old women and misleading covers — quotes for writers (and people who like quotes) I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers… this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted. Terry Pratchett photo credit: donielle via phot…

I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers… this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.
Terry Pratchett

Credit: @bridgetwhelan.bsky.social

bridgetwhelan.com/2014/11/02/t...

#internationalwomen'sday #Pratchett

Hurrah! Here we go.

Six years I think.

I still have the duffle but so much else in my life has changed.

💛

Paperback writer 💚

Call for pitches: We're looking at launching a destination-focused newsletter at point.me, and I'm looking for pitches from writers with deep expertise in a particular city or region(live in/visit often).
🧵

Look what's happening at the French Embassy in Washington DC.

Roisín O’Donnell longlisted for £30,000 Women’s Prize for Fiction Nesting, set in contemporary Dublin, is the story of a young pregnant mother who flees her abusive husband with their two young children

Roisín O’Donnell longlisted for £30,000 Women’s Prize for Fiction

Nesting, set in contemporary Dublin, is the story of a young pregnant mother who flees her abusive husband with their two young children

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Some times it is the things that go unsaid that matter the most...

Hallmark should do sympathy cards for times like this,

Bridget's fundraiser for Refugee Action Help Bridget Whelan raise money to support Refugee Action

Walking 30 miles in March (mainly along Brighton's sea front) for a very good cause. And have now passed my fundraising target and then some.

Thank you so much. Feeling chuffed. bit.ly/3DdqvPb