Anne Digby

Who is Anne Digby?

Anne Digby is a prolific British children's author best known for the Trebizon series, published between 1978 and 1994.

She attended North London Collegiate School, before becoming a magazine journalist and lived in Paris for a time. She then worked as a press officer for Oxfam in Oxford. Her first novel was A Horse Called September. She wrote fourteen novels set in the fictional Cornish boarding school Trebizon between 1978 and 1994. She has also written the Me, Jill Robinson series of books, the Jug Valley Juniors series, Quicksilver Horse and The Big Swim of the Summer. She added six books to Enid Blyton's Naughtiest Girl series and created the Three R Detective books for younger readers.

Though her books have been out of print for a while, Fidra Books of Edinburgh has recently republished Fifth Year Friendships at Trebizon, which has a foreword by Digby. Additionally, since May 2011 all fourteen titles in her Trebizon series have been made widely available as e-books.

She lives in East Sussex.