New Releases by Sarah Pinborough

Ebben a könyvben semmi sem az, aminek látszik. Louise, a fiatal titkárnő talán élete férfijával találkozik egy bárban, de a csók korainak bizonyul, különösen, miután hétfőn a munkahelyén megpillantja új főnökét, Davidet – aki persze nem más, mint a férfi a bárból. És naná, hogy felesége van. Ami ezután történik, az minden, csak nem megjósolható. Hiába kombinál az olvasó, előbb-utóbb leesik neki, hogy ebben a szokványosnak látszó szerelmi háromszögben igazából semmi sem szokványos. És felesleges lenne arra intenünk, hogy inkább ne kedveljen meg egyetlen szereplőt sem – úgyis képtelen lesz ellenállni. Mígnem egy ponton, amikor a legjobban aggódik majd az illető sorsa miatt, ráébred: nem is őt kellett volna féltenie! Sarah Pinborough regénye nem egy szerelmes történet, egy krimi és egy thriller szimpla keveréke. Sokkal félelmetesebb annál. Mert Pinborough regénye elkísér. És nem hagy nyugodni. Ne higgy ennek a könyvnek! Ne higgy a szereplőknek! Ne higgy saját magadnak se! És történjen bármi, senkinek se áruld el a végét! Sarah Pinborough az Egyesült Királyság egyik méltán népszerű, sokszoros díjnyertes romantikustörténet- és krimiírója, akinek neve az egész világon ismert. Ne higgy a szemének! című regényét 19 nyelvre fordítják le, s a magyar kiadást már hetekkel az angliai bemutató után kezükbe vehetik az olvasók. Sarah Pinborough - erő és kecsesség. Egy irodalmi kaméleon! ― Neil Gaiman Pinborough írása élénk és érzelmileg vibráló. Nem tudtam letenni. ― Stephen King Tökéletesen kidolgozott karakterek, páratlan írói munka, és egy cselekmény, ami teljes bizonytalanságban tart. A vége pedig úgy fejbe vág, mint mikor a mesében rázuhan egy zongora a nyúl fejére. Engem nem könnyű lenyűgözni, de ez a könyv megtette. ― Joanne Harris A Ne higgy a szemének! egy sötét, hátborzongató hangulatú, letehetetlen könyv, brilliáns befejezéssel. Hamarosan rajongani fogsz Sarah Pinboroughért! ― Harlan Coben Csavaros pszichológiai thriller. A műfaj sokat látott olvasói is csak találgatnak - az utolsó oldalig. ― Publishers Weekly

''Sixteen''s an interesting age: not quite a fully grown man, but not a kid either. Anything is possible when you''re sixteen.'' Finmere Tingewick Smith was abandoned on the steps of the Old Bailey. Under the guardianship of the austere Judge Harlequin Brown and the elderly gentlemen of Orrery House, Fin has grown up under a very strange set of rules. He spends alternate years at two very different schools and now he''s tired of the constant lies to even his best friends, to hide the insanity of his double life. Neither would believe the truth! But on his sixteenth birthday, everything changes. The Judge is killed, stabbed in the chest with a double-edged sword that''s disturbingly familiar, and from that moment on, Fin is catapulted into an extraordinary adventure. Through the Doorway in Fin''s London, a hole in the boundaries of Existence, lies another London -- and now both are in grave danger. For the Knights of Nowhere have kidnapped the Storyholder, the keeper of the Five Eternal Stories which weave the worlds together. Because of the Knights'' actions, a black storm is coming, bringing madness with it. Fin may be just 16, but he has a long, dark journey ahead of him if he is to rescue the Storyholder and save Existence!

The prophecy has come to pass. The London Stone has been stolen and the Dark King rules the Nowhere. Only Mona and the new Seer dare to stand against him, leading an underground rebellion in the frozen wasteland . . . but what chance do they have, against both the Army of the Mad and Arnold Mather''s soldiers? There is still hope: if they can recruit a banished race to their cause, maybe Fin and his friends can force a final battle against the Dark King. But that aid will be hard-won, through an almost impossible quest, and even then there are no guarantees. It will come down to three friends, standing together against all odds. And fulfilling their destinies, whatever the cost . . .

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES The instant New York Times and #1 international bestseller. “You should read Behind Her Eyes...It’s bloody brilliant.” —Stephen King "An eerie thriller...Pinborough keeps us guessing about just who’s manipulating whom – until the ending reveals that we’ve been wholly complicit in this terrifying mind game.” —The New York Times Book Review Why is everyone talking about the ending of Sarah Pinborough''s Behind Her Eyes? Louise is a single mom, a secretary, stuck in a modern-day rut. On a rare night out, she meets a man in a bar and sparks fly. Though he leaves after they kiss, she’s thrilled she finally connected with someone. When Louise arrives at work on Monday, she meets her new boss, David. The man from the bar. The very married man from the bar...who says the kiss was a terrible mistake, but who still can’t keep his eyes off Louise. And then Louise bumps into Adele, who’s new to town and in need of a friend. But she also just happens to be married to David. And if you think you know where this story is going, think again, because Behind Her Eyes is like no other book you’ve read before. David and Adele look like the picture-perfect husband and wife. But then why is David so controlling? And why is Adele so scared of him? As Louise is drawn into David and Adele’s orbit, she uncovers more puzzling questions than answers. The only thing that is crystal clear is that something in this marriage is very, very wrong. But Louise can’t guess how wrong—and how far a person might go to protect their marriage’s secrets. In Behind Her Eyes, Sarah Pinborough has written a novel that takes the modern day love triangle and not only turns it on its head, but completely reinvents it in a way that will leave readers reeling.

''This is not your Disney fairy tale. It is much, much better'' Wilder''s Book Review Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty - stories you love, and that we all think we know . . . . . . but what about the secrets hidden within them? Why would a prince fall in love with a woman in a coffin? Why would a queen try so hard to poison her step-daughter? And what is a fairy Godmother''s real motivation? Turn the page, and discover these classic fairy stories, told the way they always should have been . . . This collection includes the award-winning novella BEAUTY. ''Brilliantly subverts the classic fairy tale'' One Chapter More

Un rutinario análisis de sangre trastocó por completo la vida de Toby. Apartado de su familia, vive ahora en la Casa de la Muerte con otros jóvenes bajo la atenta mirada de la supervisora y su equipo de enfermeras. Esperan la aparición de los primeros síntomas de la enfermedad. Cualquier signo de que algo ha cambiado en ellos. Entonces es el momento de llevarlos al sanatorio. Nadie vuelve del sanatorio. Toby pasa los días absorto en sus recuerdos y preguntándose cuánto tiempo le queda. Hasta que llega alguien que rompe esa frágil calma y hace que todo cambie. "En este libro hay momentos sombríos, es cierto. Hay momentos escalofriantes. Pero espero que a lo largo de él también haya rayos de luz. Porque me encariñé con los adolescentes que viven en sus páginas. Creo que sus personalidades resplandecen a través de la tristeza. Es una historia sobre amistades y peleas, y sobre los lazos que se crean entre las personas, lo queramos o no. Es una historia sobre la vida y la muerte, y sobre los sacrificios que hacemos unos por otros, pero también sobre seguir viviendo. Sobre la fuerza del amor. Sobre aprovechar el momento y no rendirse nunca. Porque todos morimos... Pero lo importante es cómo elegimos vivir." Sarah Pinborough "Una historia maravillosa, contada honestamente." Neil Gaiman "Pinborough reúne un maravilloso relato del primer amor apasionado con la amistad y la hermandad que sólo sienten los que están destinados a morir juntos. Emocionante." Strange Horizons "Una gran historia con un final sorprendente." Irvine Welsh, autor de Trainspotting

Lord of the Flies meets Never Let Me Go in this “moving and totally involving” (Stephen King) dystopian thriller from the internationally best-selling author of Behind Her Eyes Toby’s life was perfectly normal . . . until it was unraveled by something as simple as a blood test. Taken from his family, Toby now lives in the Death House; an out-of-time existence far from the modern world, where he, and the others who live there, are studied by Matron and her team of nurses. They’re looking for any sign of sickness. Any sign of their wards changing. Any sign that it’s time to take them to the sanatorium. No one returns from the sanatorium. Living in his memories of the past, Toby spends his days fighting his fear. But then a new arrival in the house shatters the fragile peace, and everything changes. Because everybody dies. It’s how you choose to live that counts.

"Story Behind the Book: Volume 5" collects over 40 essays about writing and editing fiction by some of the finest contemporary authors. These essays reveal vibrant and tumultuous relationship between the author and its work, and candidly explore the process of putting the story together. Includes essays by Sarah Pinborough, J.M. Sidorova, Rod Rees, Dara Horn, Lesley McDowell, David Rain, Kim Lakin Smith, Charlaine Harris, Brian Freeman, Claude Lalumiere, Charlie Lovett, Paul Witcover, Ariel Djanikian, Christopher Brookmyre, Simon Ings, Simon Morden, Michael Gruber, Ian McDonald, J. Sydney Jones, Jaime Lee Moyer, Paul Kane, Stephen Volk, David Moody, Matthew Quinn Martin, Paula Brackston, Phil Rickman, Rebecca Alexander, Jaine Fenn, Francis Knight, Steven Brust and Skyler White, David Hair, Ian Sales, Gareth L. Powell, Justin Richards, Freda Warrington, Nicholas Kaufmann, P.B. Kane, Tom Lloyd, Stan Nicholls, David Drake, Shirin Dubbin, Christopher L. Bennett and Daniel Rabuzzi.

An enticing contemporary retelling of the classic story of Sleeping Beauty. While the the handsome prince, the evil fairy, the beautiful girl and of course the spindle all appear, Sarah Pinborough’s charming and provocative spin on the story will captivate fans of the fairy tale all over again. The third of three brand-new retellings of classic fairy tales by Sarah Pinborough.

The classic Cinderella story is given a sexy contemporary makeover in this wicked fairy tale featuring all the heroes and villains that we know and love: the handsome prince, the fairy godmother, the wretched sisters, and the beautiful girl.

Snow White gets a twisted, sexy makeover in this dark fairy tale retelling from the New York Times–bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes. Meet handsome prince, the jealous queen, and the beautiful girl as you’ve never seen them before . . . Sarah Pinborough’s charming, provocative, and adult spin on Snow White will captivate fans of the classic fairy tale all over again. Poison is the first of Sarah Pinborough’s three sexy, contemporary retellings of classic fairy tales featuring the heroes and villains we all love.

"few writers blend mystery and the supernatural as well as Sarah Pinborough, but there are none who do it better. Quite, quite brilliant." --John Connolly, bestselling author of the Charlie Parker series In this gripping sequel to the acclaimed Mayhem, Sarah Pinborough continues the adventures of troubled Victorian forensics expert Dr. Thomas Bond. Haunted by the nerve-shattering events he endured during the Jack the Ripper and Thames Torso Killer investigations, Dr. Bond is trying to reestablish the normal routines of daily life. Aiding in his recovery is the growing possibility that his long-held affections for the recently widowed Juliana Harrington might finally be reciprocated. He begins to allow himself to dream of one day forming a family with her and her young boy. Soon, however, a new suitor arrives in London, challenging the doctor''s claims on Juliana''s happiness. Worse, it seems the evil creature that Dr. Bond had wrestled with during the Ripper and Torso Killer investigations is back and stronger than ever. As the corpses of murdered children begin to turn up in the Thames, the police surgeon finds himself once again in a life-and-death struggle with an uncanny, inexorable foe.

« Rares sont les auteurs qui savent mêler aussi finement le mystère et le surnaturel. Mais aucun ne sait le faire comme Sarah Pinborough. Brillant. » John Connolly Londres, 1888. Lorsque des cadavres de femmes atrocement mutilées sont repêchés dans la Tamise, le médecin légiste Thomas Bond comprend qu''un second tueur sévit dans les rues de Whitechapel. Or cet assassin paraît plus inhumain que Jack l''Éventreur lui-même... Pour lutter contre ses insomnies, le docteur Bond passe ses nuits dans les fumeries d''opium. Chaque soir, un inconnu en noir vient examiner les rêveurs perdus dans les brumes opiacées. Pourrait-il être la clé du chaos qui s''est emparé de la capitale ?

"a new supernatural-whodunit-polyphonic thriller for those not of the faint of heart" --Fort Worth Telegram "Pinborough''s fiction moves at a breakneck pace. Once you start, you can''t stop." --Sarah Langan, author of The Keeper and The Missing Already frustrated in their attempts to capture serial murderer Jack the Ripper, the detectives of Scotland Yard are suddenly confronted with a new monster, dubbed the Torso Killer for his habit of leaving behind neatly wrapped parcels of his victims'' body parts, minus the heads. With the terrible increase in mutilated corpses to examine, the highly regarded police surgeon Dr. Thomas Bond has lost the ability to sleep. True, a growing dependency on opium affords him some solace in his loneliest and most desperate hours, but he also fears the grip of the drug. During Dr. Bond''s nightly tours of London''s underbelly in search of pharmaceutical respite from the horrors that plague him by day, he encounters a mysterious Jesuit priest scouring the opium dens himself, clearly in search of someone--or something. The doctor at first rejects the strange priest''s unnatural theories about the Torso Killer as an affront to scientific thought. But over time Dr. Bond''s opium-addled mind begins to crumble under the growing impression that there might be some awful truth to the Jesuit''s ideas. As the police struggle to capture two serial killers, the troubled forensics expert begins to suspect that he may actually know the Torso Killer personally. If he is right, Dr. Bond will need all the strength he can muster to save his small circle of loved ones from falling victim to the bloody depravities of this twisted creature.

"It spreads like a plague but it''s not a disease. Medical science is helpless against the deadly autoimmune reaction caused by the bite of the swarming African flies. Billions are dead, more are dying. Across the world, governments are falling, civilization is crumbling, and everywhere those still alive fear the death carried in the skies. Some say the flies are a freak mutation, others say they''re manmade, but as hope of beating them fades, most turn to the only comfort left and see the plague as God''s will... But not everyone dies. A few seem immune. They call themselves mungus and preach acceptance of the plague, encouraging people to allow themselves to be bitten by the "flies of the Lord" so that they may join Him the afterlife. Nigel, an investigative reporter, searches the apocalyptic landscape of plague-ravaged England in search of Bandora, a kidnapped African boy. On a quest for personal redemption as well as the truth, his search takes him away from the troubles he can no longer face at home, and into world of the head mungu, a man who speaks truth in riddles and has no fear of the African flies"--Page [4] of cover.

From the Number One bestselling author of BEHIND HER EYES comes a beautiful, harrowing, heartbreaking story, filled with exquisite truths. ''A beautiful story, honestly told'' Neil Gaiman Tonight is a special terrible night. A woman sits at her father''s bedside, watching the clock tick away the last hours of his life. Her brothers and sisters - all broken, their bonds fragile - have been there for the past week, but now she is alone. And that''s when it always comes. The clock ticks, the darkness beckons. If it comes at all.

The tables have turned, and now Detective Inspector Cass Jones is a wanted man on the streets of London. Framed for murder and hunted by his former colleagues, Cass needs every ally he can get—including a very unexpected figure from his past. While detectives Hask and Ramsey search for the killer behind the lethal Strain II virus, Mr. Bright continues to pull strings from the shadows, and there are dire warnings of a final battle that could tear everything apart. As he searches for his kidnapped nephew while eluding his own pursuers, Cass is determined to find the answers—even if he has to confront the darkest secrets of the history of humanity to do it.

The author of the “diabolically clever”* A Matter of Blood returns with another gritty supernatural thriller featuring hard-boiled homicide detective Cass Jones… A devastating terrorist attack has crippled London. To find a perpetrator who is more than human, Special Branch turns to Detective Inspector Cass Jones. Cass is already investigating a series of student suicides, but saying no to Special Branch isn’t an option—even when he’s hit with a much more personal and deeply disturbing mystery: a message left for him by his murdered brother revealing that Cass’s nephew was stolen at birth. Cass’s investigations and his search for the boy lead him down a dark labyrinth to the shadowy Mr. Bright and his otherworldly allies—and into the middle of an ancient and deadly feud, with no less than the fate of humanity hanging in the balance… *F. Paul Wilson

London streets are now clogged with thick webs and dead bodies. Spidery creatures straight out of a nightmare have infested the city, spinning sticky traps to catch human prey. A few desperate survivors have banded together, realizing their only hope for survival is to flee the dying city.

Cardiff Bay. The government has ordered the excavation of the wreckage of a secret underground base. DCI Tom Cutler is watching from a distance, fascinated by the process. There are people in his dreams. People he feels he should know. The disbanded Torchwood Institute spent a century accumulating non-terrestrial artefacts and catching aliens. Who knows what - or who - might still be intact down there. But by the time they find the first body, Suzie Costello is long gone. Based on the hit science fiction series created by Russell T Davies, Long Time Dead is a prequel to Torchwood: Miracle Day, starring John Barrowman and Eve Myles as Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper. It features Suzie Costello, as played by Indira Varma.

Society rapidly gives way to terror when women start giving birth to carnivorous spider-like creatures.

Saving the planet, watching over the Rift, preparing the human race for the twenty-first century... Torchwood has been keeping Cardiff safe since the late 1800s. Small teams of heroes, working 24/7, encountering and containing the alien, the bizarre and the inexplicable. But Torchwood do not always see the effects of their actions. What links the Rules and Regulations for replacing a Torchwood leader to the destruction of a supermarket? How does a witness to an alien''s reprisals against Torchwood become caught up in a night of terror in a university library? And why should Gwen and Ianto''s actions at a local publisher''s affect Torchwood more than a century earlier? For Torchwood, the past will always catch up with them. And sometimes the future will catch up with the past... Featuring sci-fi stories by writers for the hit Torchwood series created by Russell T Davies for BBC Television, including James Moran and Joseph Lidster, plus Andrew Cartmel, Sarah Pinborough and David Llewellyn.

The body in the church hall is very definitely dead. It has been sliced open with surgical precision, its organs exposed, and its vocal cords are gone. It is as if they were never there or they''ve been dissolved... With the Welsh Amateur Operatic Contest getting under way, music is filling the churches and concert halls of Cardiff. The competition has attracted the finest Welsh talent to the city, but it has also drawn something else - there are stories of a metallic creature hiding in the shadows. Torchwood are on its tail, but it''s moving too fast for them to track it down. This new threat requires a new tactic - so Ianto Jones is joining a male voice choir... Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit sci-fi series created by Russell T Davies for BBC Television.