Career
Burt wrote his first novel when he was just 18. He read English literature at Oxford University and eventually became a teacher, although he left after five years so he could pursue full-time writing. Burt is best known for his debut novel, After the Hole (1993), a psychological horror story about a group of private school students trapped in an underground bunker, seemingly locked in by a deranged, sociopathic classmate.
He has since published two more novels, Sophie (1994) and The Dandelion Clock (1999).
Burt has also written for television, including episodes of Afterlife, Diamond Geezer, Ghostboat, Kingdom, Murder in Mind, The Bletchley Circle, and The Borgias, and Wire in the Blood.
