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Sarah Pinborough


UK flag (b.1972)

aka Sarah Silverwood

Sarah Pinborough was born in 1972 in Buckinghamshire, and now lives just a few miles away after a childhood travelling all over the world (her father, now retired, was a diplomat) . . . until, aged eight, she packed her trunk and left the Middle East for a ten-year stretch in boarding school. The memories provide her with much material for her horror and supernatural thrillers . .
 

Awards: BFA (2014)  see all

Genres: Horror, Fantasy, Mystery, Science Fiction, Historical Mystery, Young Adult Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
October 2024

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Magic
(Tales From the Kingdoms, book 1)
November 2024

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Blood
(Tales From the Kingdoms, book 5)
June 2025

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We Live Here Now
 
Series
Dog-Faced Gods
   1. A Matter Of Blood (2010)
   2. The Shadow of the Soul (2011)
   3. The Chosen Seed (2012)
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Nowhere Chronicles (as by Sarah Silverwood)
   1. The Double-edged Sword (2010)
   2. The Traitor's Gate (2011)
   3. The London Stone (2012)
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Tales From the Kingdoms
   1. Magic (2024)
   2. Beauty (2013)
   3. Poison (2013)
   4. Charm (2013)
   5. Blood (2024)
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Dr Thomas Bond
   1. Mayhem (2013)
   2. Murder (2014)
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Novels
   The Hidden (2004)
   The Reckoning (2005)
   Breeding Ground (2006)
   The Taken (2007)
   Tower Hill (2008)
   The Language of Dying (2009)
   Feeding Ground (2009)
   A Necessary End (2014) (with F Paul Wilson)
   The Death House (2015)
   13 Minutes (2016)
   Behind Her Eyes (2017)
   Cross Her Heart (2018)
   Dead to Her (2020)
   Insomnia (2022)
   We Live Here Now (2025)
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Collections
   Waiting For October (2007) (with others)
   Apocalypse: Year Zero (2012) (with others)
   Obsidian (2016) (with others)
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Books containing stories by Sarah Pinborough
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Revelations (2022)
Horror Writers for Climate Action
edited by
Seán O'Connor
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It's Alive (2018)
Bringing Your Nightmares to Life
edited by
Eugene Johnson and Joe Mynhardt

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Awards
2014 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella : Beauty
2010 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella : The Language of Dying
2009 British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story : Do You See

Award nominations
2019 Locus Award for Best Horror Novel (nominee) : Cross Her Heart
2018 Locus Award for Best Horror Novel (nominee) : Behind Her Eyes
2018 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award (longlist) : Behind Her Eyes
2018 British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel (nominee) : Behind Her Eyes
2018 British Book Award Crime and Thriller Book of the Year (shortlist) : Behind Her Eyes
2017 British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel (nominee) : 13 Minutes
2016 British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel (nominee) : The Death House
2014 British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel (nominee) : Mayhem
2013 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel (nominee) : A Necessary End
2011 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : A Matter Of Blood
2010 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Language of Dying
2010 British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Confessor's Tale
2009 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Our Man in the Sudan
2008 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Taken
2007 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Breeding Ground
2006 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Reckoning


Sarah Pinborough recommends
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A Lesson in Cruelty (2024)
Harriet Tyce
"A Lesson in Cruelty is a lesson in craftmanship. A dizzyingly satisfying page-turner and an exploration of redemption and damnation. Harriet Tyce at her best!"
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The Gathering (2024)
C J Tudor
"A crime thriller with a vampiric twist. What a cracking read and such assured writing. She just gets better and better!"
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A Better World (2024)
Sarah Langan
"A woman in a troubled marriage moves to a perfect town riddled with secrets, and starts to question everything. Part dystopian horror, part domestic thriller, with a core of wry social commentary, A Better World is gripping literary fiction at its finest."

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