Sam Copeland

May 2, 2024 | waterstones.com | Sam Copeland |A Hayes

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May 2, 2024 | waterstones.com | Mark Skinner |Sam Copeland |Frank Cottrell Boyce |Jenny Pearson

Picture in your mind a typical hero. That’s right, you’re probably envisaging someone very much like me – dashing, muscular, but also very kind to kittens. But not all heroes are your archetypal paragons of all-round handsome excellence. Heroes are a staple of children’s fiction. In fact, you’d be hard pushed to think of many children’s novels that don’t have some manner of heroes. Why is that?

Apr 25, 2024 | waterstones.com | Pari Thomson |Abi Elphinstone |Sam Copeland |Tom Percival

Posted on 25th April 2024 by Mark Skinner From fantastical middle-grade adventures to adorable picture books for the very young, discover what treats lie in store for junior bookworms this May.

Nov 12, 2023 | lotuseaters.medium.com | Sam Copeland

"Irony is the chief pleasure of the civilized." - Charles Fourier, Theory of the Four Movements Jane Austen's most famous sentence is "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." The sentence exercises such mimetic power that it has become almost an academic practice to begin or end papers about Austen with some kind of play on it, like "It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen examines gender roles." The...