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.
