I'm a lot less travelled as an adult than I was as a child, but I think living in far flung places gives you a perspective on the world and people that adds flavour to your writing.

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• Sarah Pinborough:

  My first six books were horror, I think because when I was young I loved Stephen King. John Wyndham

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  Maybe even at six or seven, I knew that, sweet as they were on the surface, all fairy tales needed