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Sam Pope

@sampopewriter

Author of 'The Haunting of Lindy Pennyworth', one of Blackwell's top 2021 YA horrors . Latest project: http://eleanorporden.com. Polar history and ghost stories

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Pumpkins: Halloween is one night. Tonight. If you have to waste a food item (and I strongly suggest you don't), please put it out for one night, then safely dispose of it. Please DO NOT put it out for the wildlife. Once you've handled it, cut it, left it out in the open,…

HedgehogCabin's tweet image. Pumpkins:
Halloween is one night.  
Tonight. 
If you have to waste a food item (and I strongly suggest you don't), please put it out for one night, then safely dispose of it.  
Please DO NOT put it out for the wildlife. 
Once you've handled it, cut it, left it out in the open,…

#HappyHalloween !!! If you want a big scare, and one set in #Oxford, please check out my book, which is 4 years old this month!!! Thanks @foxandinkbooks for the mention 👻🎃👻

Happy Halloween! Our last Spooky Read is @sampopewriter's The Haunting of Lindy Pennyworth. This is spooky lit at its finest - paranormal rituals, Victorian haunting and a family curse. ⁠ Get a copy via the link in our bio if you're brave enough!⁠ ⁠ #Haunting #YA #Halloween

foxandinkbooks's tweet image. Happy Halloween!

Our last Spooky Read is @sampopewriter's The Haunting of Lindy Pennyworth. This is spooky lit at its finest - paranormal rituals, Victorian haunting and a family curse.
⁠
Get a copy via the link in our bio if you're brave enough!⁠
⁠
#Haunting #YA #Halloween


Sam Pope reposted

Happy Halloween! Our last Spooky Read is @sampopewriter's The Haunting of Lindy Pennyworth. This is spooky lit at its finest - paranormal rituals, Victorian haunting and a family curse. ⁠ Get a copy via the link in our bio if you're brave enough!⁠ ⁠ #Haunting #YA #Halloween

foxandinkbooks's tweet image. Happy Halloween!

Our last Spooky Read is @sampopewriter's The Haunting of Lindy Pennyworth. This is spooky lit at its finest - paranormal rituals, Victorian haunting and a family curse.
⁠
Get a copy via the link in our bio if you're brave enough!⁠
⁠
#Haunting #YA #Halloween

Thank you so much, @Oxonlibraries for displaying Lindy with these excellent scary stories for Halloween! It made my day seeing this! @foxandinkbooks

sampopewriter's tweet image. Thank you so much, @Oxonlibraries for displaying Lindy with these excellent scary stories for Halloween! It made my day seeing this! @foxandinkbooks
sampopewriter's tweet image. Thank you so much, @Oxonlibraries for displaying Lindy with these excellent scary stories for Halloween! It made my day seeing this! @foxandinkbooks

Thank you @frankcottrell_b for highlighting this. As an English lit/Spanish lit grad, who teaches literature, I'm horrified by current attitudes towards arts subjects. We say it's awful that children don't read anymore but don't fund the arts. And then politicians say this.

Re English degrees - as a student Katherine Rundell read Donne's most difficult poem. It gave her an idea for a children's book. Yesterday Disney announced a monster deal for that book. So that English degree will soon create and sustain thousands of highly skilled UK jobs.



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Spooky, but beautiful: the northern lights glowed through the cloudy Manitoba night sky 🌌✨


Sam Pope reposted

Britain has 2,800 food banks

David__Osland's tweet image. Britain has 2,800 food banks

Night after night, something has been moving our mini-pumpkins in our garden. We set up a camera and caught the culprit! (S)He comes every night, multiple times a night, and either carries or noses them down to the other end of the garden! @ChrisGPackham @BBCCountryfile

sampopewriter's tweet image. Night after night, something has been moving our mini-pumpkins in our garden. We set up a camera and caught the culprit! (S)He comes every night, multiple times a night, and either carries or noses them down to the other end of the garden! @ChrisGPackham @BBCCountryfile
sampopewriter's tweet image. Night after night, something has been moving our mini-pumpkins in our garden. We set up a camera and caught the culprit! (S)He comes every night, multiple times a night, and either carries or noses them down to the other end of the garden! @ChrisGPackham @BBCCountryfile

Not the biggest fan of the named @CocaCola bottles as I always feel I'm stealing someone else's but in France it's been fun to pretend I'm Anaïs.

sampopewriter's tweet image. Not the biggest fan of the named @CocaCola bottles as I always feel I'm stealing someone else's but in France it's been fun to pretend I'm Anaïs.

If you're a member of @RMGreenwich, please come to my talk tomorrow, 6.30pm, on the life of Eleanor Anne Porden! She's done much more than *just* being married to John Franklin - she was an acclaimed poet and fascinating person. Hope to see you there! rmg.co.uk/whats-on/natio…

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Members' Lecture: Eleanor Anne Porden

Uncover the often-forgotten life of John Franklin's first wife, Eleanor Anne Porden, with author Sam Pope


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Happy Brexit referendum anniversary day. It weakened the economy. Reduced investment. Tanked the pound. Damaged the City. Increased red tape. Increased immigration. Decreased the rights of the young. Staffed billions wasted. But hey - Johnson has PM on his CV and his partner in…


Is this rubbish by my street meant to look like #DonaldTrump ? 🤔

sampopewriter's tweet image. Is this rubbish by my street meant to look like #DonaldTrump ? 🤔

I completely agree with this by @AnthonyHorowitz in @Telegraph. The difference I saw in a decade working in a school library was astonishing and depressing and led me to stop doing a job I once loved. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/1…


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