Anna Nicholas is the most prolific British author writing about the island of Mallorca in Spain, today. She has written a series of seven best-selling Mallorca humorous travel titles and has written the first three in a new Mallorca based crime series starring feisty and loveable sleuth, Isabel Flores Montserrat. The first, published in 2019, was THE DEVIL'S HORN, the second, HAUNTED MAGPIE, in 2020 and the third, FALLEN BUTTERFLY, in December 2022. All are available at Amazon sites in paperback and via Kindle, plus good bookshops in the UK and Europe. Her books are available also at indie publishing house, www.burrobooks.co.uk which she established in 2019. Follow her here: www.bit.ly/anna-nicholas and at www.linktr.ee/annanicholas
Anna is a respected travel journalist and has written for many leading publications including Telegraph UK, FT How to spend it, the Times, Independent, Daily Mail, Conde Nast Traveller, UltraTravel, Wanderlust, the Robb Report, and Tatler. She is the Mallorca destination expert for the Telegraph UK www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/anna-nicholas/ and writes a weekly column for newspaper, Majorca Daily Bulletin.
She has run ten full marathons in different countries - the last was in 2019, running with lions and wild beasties on a South African reserve - raising money for her favourite charities. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) and a member of Women in Journalism. She has been an international adjudicator for the Guinness Book of Records and wrote a book, STRICTLY OFF THE RECORD about her adventures judging records around the world with founder, Norris McWhirter, CBE (available on Kindle).
With her old chum, veteran British explorer, Colonel John Blashford-Snell, CBE, she often takes part in tough global expeditions to far flung countries and terrains including Mongolia, Guyana, Nepal, Colombia and along the Amazon, helping remote indigenous communities. The pair once organised an expedition to carry a grand piano through swamps and along perilous rivers to a remote Amerindian tribe in South America, which was the subject of a BBC TV documentary.
Anna lives with her husband Alan in rural Mallorca with a large garden full of cats, hens, ducks, peacocks, birds, lizards and frogs! Their 26-year-old son, Ollie, currently lives and works in Eastern Europe. The author has a toad in her pond named Johnnie (who has an American accent) and she loves reading, films, cooking, running and hiking in the Tramuntana mountains. She and her chum, Alison, have so far climbed 50 of the 54 1,000+m peaks of Mallorca. Only four to go!
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