Bridget Whelan
@bridgetwhelan.bsky.social
Reader, writer, tutor, London Irish living in Brighton & Hove
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We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:
September 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:
unexpected situations can be avoided. Would you apply for a writing residency here....I was ok up to the point it mentioned snakes
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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…
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September 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
unexpected situations can be avoided. Would you apply for a writing residency here....I was ok up to the point it mentioned snakes
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Brighton and Hove A level students beat national average 12 years running
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 […]
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August 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Brighton and Hove A level students beat national average 12 years running
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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:
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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
July 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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
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
🌳 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...
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...
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July 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🌳 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...
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On today's blog tour for #DoubleRoom by #AnneSenes (translated by #AliceBanks) I have an extract to share
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Publishing 19 June with @orendabooks.bsky.social
#BookSky💙📚 #bookblogger #literaryfiction #speculative
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Publishing 19 June with @orendabooks.bsky.social
#BookSky💙📚 #bookblogger #literaryfiction #speculative
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...
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June 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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
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
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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
June 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
@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
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!
I somehow managed to buy matching shoes and clipboard today. Who knows when such a level of coordination might be needed?! The shoes are vegan, I’m not sure about the clipboard.
June 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
What style!
Novella a Day in May 2025: No.26 madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/05/26/n...
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…
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May 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Novella a Day in May 2025: No.26 madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/05/26/n...
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Today on the podcast I interview Joe Abercrombie about his brand new book #TheDevils. Links to listen: podfollow.com/quick-book-r...
#joeabercrombie #booksky
#joeabercrombie #booksky
May 9, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Today on the podcast I interview Joe Abercrombie about his brand new book #TheDevils. Links to listen: podfollow.com/quick-book-r...
#joeabercrombie #booksky
#joeabercrombie #booksky
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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
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
May 9, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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
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
rth.org.uk/whats-on
May 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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
rth.org.uk/whats-on
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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
If finds could talk, I’m sure this one could tell a tale or two.
#mudlarkingfinds #mudlark #Mudlarking
March 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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
If finds could talk, I’m sure this one could tell a tale or two.
#mudlarkingfinds #mudlark #Mudlarking
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MY NEW BOOK IS OUT NOW!
Available from bookshops and all the usual online outlets. Link in my biog.
#mudlarking #mudlark #larking
Available from bookshops and all the usual online outlets. Link in my biog.
#mudlarking #mudlark #larking
November 19, 2024 at 8:54 PM
MY NEW BOOK IS OUT NOW!
Available from bookshops and all the usual online outlets. Link in my biog.
#mudlarking #mudlark #larking
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 whatcathyreadnext.co.uk/2025/05/09/t...
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…
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May 9, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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
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
April 22, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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
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.
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April 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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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.
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.
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…
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April 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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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.
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.
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.
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I remembered my manners.
Welcome, Mr Cubbage, I said.
And I didn’t let the word wig pass my lips.
wp.me/p2EeQv-9vd
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…
wp.me
April 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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
I remembered my manners.
Welcome, Mr Cubbage, I said.
And I didn’t let the word wig pass my lips.
wp.me/p2EeQv-9vd
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If you love your library, listen up…
April 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
If you love your library, listen up…
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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
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#internationalwomen'sday #Pratchett
Terry Pratchett
Credit: @bridgetwhelan.bsky.social
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#internationalwomen'sday #Pratchett
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…
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March 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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
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#internationalwomen'sday #Pratchett
Terry Pratchett
Credit: @bridgetwhelan.bsky.social
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#internationalwomen'sday #Pratchett
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Hurrah! Here we go.
March 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Hurrah! Here we go.
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Six years I think.
I still have the duffle but so much else in my life has changed.
💛
I still have the duffle but so much else in my life has changed.
💛
5 years ago today Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social
Hit the bookshops in Ireland and the UK.
Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social
It has been translated around the world and touched so many readers.
Just Wonderful to see it still flying.
Hit the bookshops in Ireland and the UK.
Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social
It has been translated around the world and touched so many readers.
Just Wonderful to see it still flying.
March 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Six years I think.
I still have the duffle but so much else in my life has changed.
💛
I still have the duffle but so much else in my life has changed.
💛
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Paperback writer 💚
We're publishing the Paperback of
GHOST MOUNTAIN by @ronanhession.bsky.social
On April 22nd - 9781915693259
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GHOST MOUNTAIN by @ronanhession.bsky.social
On April 22nd - 9781915693259
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@treehousebookshop.bsky.social
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March 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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