Sarah Pinborough

Sarah Pinborough is an English author and screenwriter who has written YA and adult thriller, fantasy and cross-genre novels.

She has had more than 20 novels published by several companies and in several countries.

They have also been translated into a number of languages.

Her work has been published within the horror books section of Leisure Books.

Torchwood is a spin-off series from the BBC series Doctor Who.

These are TV tie-in novels and short stories in that shared world.

Pinborough has also written short stories for the Torchwood Magazine.

These are:

Published as the Forgotten Gods Trilogy in the US by Ace Books.

"The 'Dog Faced Gods' series is set in an alternative world. The Britain of this world isn't a dystopia but it is merely a little crappier and harsher than ours." Jim Steel

Subversive retellings of fairy stories published by Gollancz Books.

Sarah Pinborough first published The Nowhere Chronicles, a YA urban fantasy trilogy set across multiple parallel world versions of London, under the pseudonym Sarah Silverwood.

The series has since been reissued under the name Sarah Pinborough.

Several of her novels have been optioned or adapted for TV or film.

This includes:

Pinborough has written for the BBC and several other television companies.

Pinborough was born in 1972 in Buckinghamshire, UK.

She is a patron of the Educational Wealth Fund.

The Language of Dying: 2009 Shirley Jackson Award finalist and won the 2010 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella.

"Our Man in the Sudan": 2009 World Fantasy Award finalist

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In 2012, Pinborough wrote Old School Ties, the second episode of the ninth series of the BBC TV crime drama New Tricks.

On Dec 4, 2023, it was announced that Pinborough will adapt her Dog Faced Gods novels to television for Red Planet Pictures.

Other projects in various stages of development include:

The Death House

Behind Her Eyes

13 Minutes

The Language of Dying

The Taken

Tower Hill

The Shadow of the Soul

Poison

Charm

Mayhem

Murder