Writing
August 15, 1972
53 years old
Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. [now Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, UK]
Sarah Pinborough is an English author and screenwriter of over 20 YA and adult works. She is known for her thriller, fantasy and cross-genre novels.
Pinborough was born in Buckinghamshire, England, in 1972. Her father was a diplomat, and as a child she moved between various countries, including Syria, India, the Sudan, and Russia. After ten years at boarding school in England, she tried several different jobs before becoming a secondary school teacher. She taught for six years before becoming a full-time writer.
Her first publication was a horror story entitled Express Delivery’ in 2001. She began writing novels, and six of these were published by Leisure Books. Moving away from horror, Pinborough then published the trilogy The Dog-Faced Gods (2010-12).
As Sarah Silverwood she penned the Nowhere Chronicles young adult series.
Pinbrough rose to prominence in 2017 with the cross-genre thriller Behind Her Eyes, which was adapted as a limited series for Netflix in 2021.