Sarah Pinborough is an English

England

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-born horror

Horror fiction

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

 writer

Writer

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 whose books have found success in the United States

United States

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. Her works have previously been compared to that of Bentley Little

Bentley Little

Bentley Little is an American author of horror novels.-Personal history:Little's first novel, The Revelation, was published with St...

, Richard Laymon

Richard Laymon

Richard Carl Laymon was an American author of suspense and horror fiction, particularly within the splatterpunk subgenre. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and lived as a child in California...

 and Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz

Dean Ray Koontz is a prolific American author best known for his novels which could be described broadly as suspense thrillers. He also frequently incorporates elements of horror, science fiction, mystery, and satire. A number of his books have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List, with...

. She also writes fantasy novels for children under the name Sarah Silverwood.

Biography

Pinborough was born in Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....

 in 1972. Because of her father's career as a diplomat, much of Sarah's early childhood was spent travelling in the Middle East

Middle East

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. From the ages of eight to eighteen Sarah attended boarding school, which she claims has influenced her writing.

Pinborough trained to be a secondary school teacher after a brief marriage, while still writing her novels. She taught for three years at the Lord Grey School

Lord Grey School

The Lord Grey School is a comprehensive co-educational secondary school in West Bletchley, Milton Keynes. The school is a dual specialist Language College and Humanities College.-Ofsted report:...

 before moving onto Lea Manor High School in Luton

Luton

Luton is a large town and unitary authority of Bedfordshire, England, 30 miles north of London. Luton and its near neighbours, Dunstable and Houghton Regis, form the Luton/Dunstable Urban Area with a population of about 250,000....

. Pinborough also taught at Walton High

Walton High School (Milton Keynes)

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, Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes

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 Afterwards.

Awards and Nominations

The Language of Dying: 2009 Shirley Jackson Award

Shirley Jackson Award

The Shirley Jackson Awards are literary awards named after Shirley Jackson in recognition of her legacy in writing. These awards for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror and the dark fantastic are presented at Readercon, an annual conference on imaginative...

 finalist

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

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 finalist

Novels

• The Hidden (2004, Leisure Books)
• The Reckoning (2005, Leisure Books)
• Breeding Ground (2006, Leisure Books)
• The Taken (2007, Leisure Books)
• Tower Hill (2008, Leisure Books)
• Feeding Ground (2009, Leisure Books)

Spinoff novels

• Torchwood: Into The Silence (2009, Random House)
• Torchwood: Long Time Dead (2011, Random House)

The Dog-Faced Gods series

• A Matter of Blood (2010, Gollancz Books)
• The Shadow of the Soul (2011, Gollancz Books)
• The Chosen Seed (to appear in 2012, Gollancz Books)

The Nowhere Chronicles

• The Double-edged Sword (2010, Gollancz)
• The Traitor's Gate (2011, Gollancz) - forthcoming
• The London Stone (2012, Gollancz) - forthcoming

Short Fiction

• Waiting For October (2007, Dark Arts Books) - a book of the combined short stories of Sarah Pinborough, Adam Pepper, Jeff Strand and Jeffrey Thomas
• The Language of Dying (2009, PS Publishing)
• Hellbound Hearts (2009, Pocket Books) edited by Paul Kane and Marie O'Regan - Pinborough contributed "The Confessor's Tale"
• Zombie Apocalypse! edited by Stephen Jones (2010, Running Press) - Pinborough contributed "Diary Entry #1", "Diary Entry #2" and "Diary Entry #3"

External links

• Interview at Gothic Imagination