Anna Nicholas

Anna Nicholas (born 1961, Rochester, Kent) is a British travel writer and author based in Majorca, Spain.

Nicholas spent most of her childhood in London before studying Classics and English Literature at Leeds University in 1980. She worked for the charity Help the Aged, handling event PR for the late Princess Diana, before working for the Guinness Book of Records as an invigilator and communications director. Following an eventful period judging bizarre world records – the longest conga line with singer Gloria Estafan in Miami, the tallest tower of bread in Indonesia, press-up and car pulling records in Korea – Nicholas started her own luxury and travel public relations agency, ANA Communications. She also became a freelance travel writer, writing for publications including the "Financial Times", "Evening Standard", the "Independent", "Westminster Times", and "Tatler" magazine. She was invited by the explorer Colonel John Blashford-Snell to join his charity, The Scientific Exploration Society, as a director and trustee and thus began a long period of making tough global expeditions to remote locations. Nicholas featured in a BBC TV documentary when she was on the team of an expedition to carry a grand piano to a remote Amerindian tribe in Guyana. She relocated with her family to Majorca in the Baleares in 2005 to become a full time writer.

Travel Writing

*"A Lizard in my Luggage", Summersdale, 2007. It focuses on Nicholas's experiences learning to adapt to life in rural Majorca
*"Cat on a Hot Tiled Roof", forthcoming from Summersdale Publishers.

External links

* [http://www.summersdale.com Summersdale-publishers of Anna Nicholas's travel books]
* [http://www.anna-nicholas.com Anna Nicholas's official website-under construction]