The Death House – Sarah Pinborough
Toby’s life was perfectly normal… until it was unravelled 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. Withdrawn from his house-mates and living in his memories of the past, Toby spends his days fighting his fear. But then a new arrival in the house…
13 Minutes – Sarah Pinborough
Release date: February 18th, 2016 Publisher: Gollancz Age Group: Young Adult Pages: 320 Format: e-galley Source: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review I was dead for 13 minutes. I don’t remember how I ended up in the icy water but I do know this – it wasn’t an accident and I wasn’t suicidal. They say you should keep your friends close and your enemies closer, but when you’re a teenage girl, it’s hard to tell them apart. My friends love me, I’m sure of it. Review: Sarah Pinborough has quickly become one of my favourite authors. I love the way she writes and the way she seems to be able to…
GIVEAWAY: ‘Murder’ by Sarah Pinborough
Two weeks ago I posted my review of Sarah Pinborough’s ‘Murder’, the sequel to ‘Mayhem’ and yet again a dark and immersive tale about Dr. Thomas Bond and the numerous murder cases in the 1880’s. Now it’s your chance to read it, because I have a copy to give away! About the book Dr. Thomas Bond, Police Surgeon, is still recovering from the event of the previous year when Jack the Ripper haunted the streets of London – and a more malign enemy hid in his shadow. Bond and the others who worked on the gruesome case are still stalked by its legacies, both psychological and tangible. But now the…
Mayhem – Sarah Pinborough
Release Date: April 25th, 2013Publisher: Jo Fletcher BooksAge Group: AdultPages: 400Format: PaperbackSource: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review (thank you!)A new killer is stalking the streets of London’s East End. Though newspapers have dubbed him ‘the Torso Killer’, this murderer’s work is overshadowed by the hysteria surrounding Jack the Ripper’s Whitechapel crimes.The victims are women too, but their dismembered bodies, wrapped in rags and tied up with string, are pulled out of the Thames – and the heads are missing. The murderer likes to keep them.Mayhem is a masterwork of narrative suspense: a supernatural thriller set in a shadowy, gaslit London, where monsters stalk the cobbled streets and hide in plain…
