Our speaker is Bobbie Darbyshire who was the winner of the 2008 fiction prize at the National Academy of Writing and the New Delta Review Creative Non-fiction Prize 2010. She is author of five novels, including “The Posthumous Adventures of Harry Whittaker” and “The Third Bus”.

Bobbie has worked as barmaid, mushroom picker, film extra, maths coach, cabinet minister’s private secretary, care assistant and volunteer adult-literacy teacher, as well as in social research and government policy. Bobbie lives in London and hosts a writers’ group.

Her entertaining, informative talk ‘a beginning, a middle, & an end - where do novelists get their ideas’ prompts laughter and lively questions. Drawing on the experience of many well -known authors, Bobbie describes how the complex fictional world arrives in a novelist’s mind.