A beautiful, sexy, contemporary retelling of the classic Snow White fairy tale, illustrated by Les Edwards.
Sarah Pinborough is a successful, critically acclaimed novelist and screenwriter, and has written a YA trilogy, The Nowhere Chronicles, under the pen name Sarah Silverwood. She has written for the BBC series New Tricks, her The Dog-Faced Gods trilogy has been optioned for a television series and she has a horror film, CRACKED, currently in development. She has also turned her pen to short stories and novellas, winning the BRITISH FANTASY AWARD for Best Short Story in 2009 and the BRITISH FANTASY AWARD for Best Novella in 2010 (for THE LANGUAGE OF THE DYING). She lives in London, and is a full-time writer. Follow @sarahpinborough on Twitter.
The fairy tale retold with a welcome bite of cynical realism. Disney eat your heart out. - SCI FI NOW - Claire NichollsPoison is Pinborough's take on Snow White, and while all the recognisable furniture is there, she takes the story in directions that would have Walt Disney's (apocryphally) frozen head spinning in its cryogenic chamber. Loads of fun and very saucy with it. - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYPulls you into the fantasy world from the first word. A fairy-tale for grown-ups that should delight and shock in equal measure. - SCI FI BULLETINMore Grimm than Disney, Poison is a fun, fresh take on Snow White with a sucker punch of an ending. If you're a fan of Once Upon a Time or Snow White and the Huntsman, you'll find Poison very palatable indeed. There's enough sex and skulduggery here to satisfy fans of Pinborough's other works too. - Geek Planet OnlinePoison proves that fairy tales are no longer just for children. This is an intelligent, dark and enthralling read. I am absolutely left wanting more. - THE ELOQUENT PAGEPoison by Sarah Pinborough is everything you know about Snow White and, what's more important, everything you don't know about her. The characters are dark and extremely natural - the story could have happened anywhere. Even though it's set in the original fairy tale type world, it is astounding what Sarah Pinborough did with the story. To expla
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