Jem Poster and Sarah Burton

Novelists and creative writing tutors professor Jem Poster and Sarah Burton talk about their new co-authored novel, Eliza Mace, and offer insights about historical and detective fiction to both readers and aspiring writers.

Stuck in a crumbling manor house in the Welsh borders and battling for her independence in the 1870s, when relatively few women were in a position to exercise influence in the wider world, Eliza Mace is thwarted by powers that conspire to protect, control and deceive her. But when her father goes missing in mysterious circumstances, her determination to uncover the truth is unstoppable.

Poster is emeritus professor of creative writing, Aberystwyth University. He is author of a collection of poetry, Brought to Light, and two novels, Courting Shadows and Rifling Paradise. Burton, founder and former director of Cambridge University’s MSt in creative writing, is the author of Impostors; A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb and The Strange Adventures of H. Poster and Burton are co-authors of a handbook for fiction writers, The Book You Need to Read to Write the Book You Want to Write.