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Born | 1972 (age 51–52) Milton Keynes, England |
Pen name | Sarah Silverwood |
Occupation | Writer, teacher |
Nationality | English |
Genre | fantasy, young adult
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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. [1]
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. [3]
"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 [4]
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. [10] This includes:
Pinborough has written for the BBC and several other television companies. 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. [15] In 2024, Paramount+ will release Insomnia , starring Vicky McClure. [16]
Other projects in various stages of development include:
Pinborough was born in 1972 in Buckinghamshire, UK.
She is a patron of the Educational Wealth Fund.
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Long Time Dead is a Torchwood tie-in novel by author Sarah Pinborough. It is the second of three prequels to Torchwood: Miracle Day, the final Torchwood TV series. It is published by BBC Books.
Behind Her Eyes is a thriller novel by English author Sarah Pinborough, published on 23 January 2017 by HarperCollins Publishers and Flatiron Books. The novel was adapted into a Netflix television series of the same name.
Behind Her Eyes is a British noir supernatural psychological thriller television series created by Steve Lightfoot, based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Sarah Pinborough, that premiered on Netflix on 17 February 2021. The limited series stars Simona Brown, Tom Bateman, Eve Hewson and Robert Aramayo.
List of complete works by Canadian fantasy fiction author Steven Erikson.
Insomnia is an upcoming British television thriller series by Sarah Pinborough, adapted from her 2022 novel of the same name. Starring Vicky McClure, it will be broadcast on Paramount+ in 23 May, 2024.
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