Anne Digby (born 5 May 1943 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey) is a prolific British children's writer best known for the

Trebizon Trebizon is a series of school story novels by Anne Digby set in the fictional school of that name. The fourteen novels were published between 1978 and 1994. Like Enid Blyton's much earlier creation, Malory Towers, Trebizon is located in Cornwal ...

series published between 1978 and 1994. Digby attended

North London Collegiate School North London Collegiate School (NLCS) is an independent school with a day school for girls in England. Founded in Camden Town, it is now located in Edgware, in the London Borough of Harrow. Associate schools are located in South Korea, Jeju ...

before becoming a magazine journalist, and lived in Paris for a time. She then worked as a press officer for

Oxfam Oxfam is a British-founded confederation of 21 independent charitable organizations focusing on the alleviation of global poverty, founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International. History Founded at 17 Broad Street, Oxford, as the Oxford Co ...

Oxford Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the Un ...

. Her first novel was ''A Horse Called September'' (1975). From 1978 to 1994 she wrote fourteen

school story The school story is a fiction genre centring on older pre-adolescent and adolescent school life, at its most popular in the first half of the twentieth century. While examples do exist in other countries, it is most commonly set in English board ...

novels set in the fictional Cornish boarding school

. 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 Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer, whose books have been worldwide bestsellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies. Her books are still enormously popular and have be ...

's 1940–52 ''

Naughtiest Girl ''The Naughtiest Girl'' is a series of novels written by Enid Blyton in the 1940s–1950s. Unusually, they are set at a progressive boarding school rather than a traditional one. The school, Whyteleafe, bears a striking resemblance to the inde ...

'' series, 1999 to 2001 – which publisher Hachette catalogues as Naughtiest Girl, volumes 5 to 10 – and created the ''Three R Detective'' books for younger readers. Fidra Books of Edinburgh has published a collector's edition of ''Fifth Year Friendships at Trebizon'', which has a foreword by Digby, while new mass-market paperback editions of the first seven titles in the ''Trebizon'' series were published by Egmont in 2016 with more titles scheduled for 2017.Summer Camp at Trebeizon
Egmont website. All fourteen titles in the series also remain widely available as e-books. She formerly lived in

Dorset Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset. Covering an area of ...

but now lives in

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.Author: Anne Digby
Hachette Children's Books. Retrieved 2019-11-11.

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1943 births Living people English children's writers People from Kingston upon Thames People educated at North London Collegiate School {{UK-child-writer-stub