Eliza Mace

Sarah Burton was the course director of Cambridge University’s MSt in Creative Writing. She has written for BBC History Magazine and reviews for the Times, Spectator, Guardian and Independent. The Strange Adventures of H is Sarah's debut novel for adults.

Jem Poster is the author of two historical novels, Courting Shadows (Sceptre, 2002; translated into German, Polish and Spanish) and Rifling Paradise (Sceptre, 2006; translated into German). He is co-author, with Sarah Burton, of Eliza Mace (Duckworth, 2024), the first in a series of historical detective mysteries; the second book in the series will be published by Duckworth in 2025. He is also co-author, with Sarah Burton, of a handbook for fiction-writers, The Book You Need to Read to Write the Book You Want to Write (Cambridge University Press, 2022) which contains a substantial section on approaches to historical research in the context of fiction-writing.

Karen Cass is an experiecenced actor in the theatre, advertisement and audiobooks, having recorded over a hundred and fifty titles during her career for various publishers. She also acted with the Cambridge Footlights and worked as a presenter for BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. Some of her audiobook narrations include the Lady Eleanor Swift Mysteries by Verity Bright, The Other Wife by Claire McGowan and Your Place or Mine? by Portia MacIntosh.