Where do novelists get their ideas

Bobbie Darbyshire will explain how the complex world of character, location, plot and subplot arrives in a writer's in a writer's mind. Winner of the 2008 fiction prize at the National Academy of Writing and the New Delta Review Creative Non-fiction 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.