In her very popular talk, entertaining professional speaker Bobbie Darbyshire will draw on the experience of many
well-known authors to reveal how the fictional world arrives in a novelist’s mind. Whether you read fiction or
nonfiction or rarely open a book, sit back, enjoy, and ready yourselves for quite a few chuckles and laughs. If
you’ve ever tried creative writing yourself or been tempted to….. expect to be inspired.
Winner of the 2008 fiction prize at the National Academy of Writing and the New Delta Review Creative Nonfiction Prize 2010, Bobbie is author of five novels, including “The Posthumous Adventures of Harry Whittaker” and
“The Third Bus”. She 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