Sarah Pinborough was born in 1972 in Buckinghamshire, and now lives in London where she works as a full time, award-winning, writer and script-writer. Her published work, almost all of which is optioned for TV or film adaptation, includes the stunning novella The Language of Dying, The Dog Faced Gods series, The Hidden Kingdom  series, The Nowhere Chronicles  (as Sarah Silverwood) and two standalone novels: The Death House and Thirteen Minutes.