It's never too late to write your first novel - and these three East Anglian authors prove it magnificently. Each published their debut later in life, bringing decades of experience, observation and hard-won wisdom to their fiction. The results speak for themselves: three utterly distinctive voices with three extraordinary first books.
 
In this celebration of new writing and local talent, Jenny Knight, Camilla Balshaw and Elspeth Latimer talk to local broadcaster Georgy Jamieson about what finally drove them to write, what surprised them about the process, and what they have learned about themselves in the doing of it. 
 
Format: Panel Discussion & Q&A
Themes: Fiction, Adults, New Voices, Local Interest, Writing, Book Club, Literary
 
Jenny Knight  Books: Wild Moon Rising
Jenny Knight is the author of Wild Moon Rising (Akan Books), and a prize-winning writer of short story, fiction and memoir, whose work featured in Kit de Waal’s celebrated Common People anthology. She’s worked extensively as a copywriter, editor/developmental editor, taught creative writing in prisons, worked on storytelling projects for the UN in Somalia and Kenya, as an actor, in pubs, on farms, and hosted panels and talks on rejection, resilience and the writing process. She lives on the Suffolk/Norfolk border.
 
Camilla Balshaw Books: Named
Camilla Balshaw is an award-winning author. Her work has featured in The Guardian, Therapy Today and The Observer. Her debut memoir, Named: A Story Of Names And Reclaiming Who We Are, won the best Memoir & Biography category in the East Anglian Book Awards. She holds an MA in Creative & Life Writing with Distinction from Goldsmiths.
 
Elspeth Latimer Books: The Lost Detective
Elspeth Latimer lives with her family in the Brecks, at the heart of East Anglia. Her debut, ‘The Lost Detective’, is longlisted for the 2026 Crime Writers’ Association ILP John Creasey First Novel Dagger. Elspeth teaches creative writing, and she has a PhD on crime series from UEA.
 
Georgy Jamieson
Broadcaster Georgy Jamieson has hosted author sessions at the Felixstowe Book Festival, Primadonna, the Norwich Book Festival, the Essex Book Festival and Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival. Georgy presents a Sunday 10 -1 pm show on Broadland Radio across Norfolk and North Suffolk and hosts the weekly Audio Academy podcast.