Derek Langley

Derek Langley is a UK-based author who built a thirty-eight-year career designing airborne reconnaissance and surveillance systems, work that took him all over the world. His team’s designs are currently helping protect wildlife against poaching. Having retired from all that, he now plans to let his creative side out of the box, including more writing and music.

In November 2013, an open day at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy provided the inspiration to develop a nascent idea for a science thriller story based around energy, love and balance. Written over the following years during holidays and weekends and predating the COVID pandemic, Drowse is his first novel.

Derek is a family man, married to a great woman for over 40 years with two grown-up children. He has been an active and successful STEM Ambassador for many years and delivers the "Rocketude!" kids' activity at the Latitude Festival. He is constantly and hopelessly beguiled by the sea and can hit a tennis ball. He probably drinks a little too much red wine, he certainly eats too many crisps and yet, despite all this, Derek remains alive and well in the heart of Suffolk, UK.