Tales from the Kingdoms

A sexy, contemporary and inspired retelling of the classic fairy tales. Complete with beautiful illustrations, this is a collection to treasure!

'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, as well as the superb novellas POISON and CHARM.

'Brilliantly subverts the classic fairy tale'

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About the Author

Sarah Pinborough is a successful, critically acclaimed novelist and screenwriter. She 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.