Event Category: Study Day

  • The Shtetl

    Anyone who has seen Fiddler on the Roof will have a vivid idea of the shtetl, where the story takes place. On the one hand, the shtetl is remembered sentimentally and with a nostalgic glow. On the other hand it is recalled with a grimace of distaste as an isolated, squalid, ramshackle place and a precarious way of life.… Read more

  • Where do novelists get their ideas from?

    Have you ever wondered where fiction writers get their ideas from? In this entertaining and informative talk, Bobbie Darbyshire will explain how the complex world of character, location, plot and subplot arrives in a writer’s mind. Is it a case of ‘a beginning, a muddle and an end’ – and how does it all come… Read more