Anna Nicholas is one of the most prolific British authors writing about Mallorca today and has spent more than two decades chronicling the island’s landscapes, legends and local life.

She is the author of eleven Mallorca-based books: seven bestselling humorous travel titles and a crime fiction series featuring Mallorcan sleuth Isabel Flores Montserrat and her ferret sidekick, Furó. The fourth novel, Aunt Maria’s Last Aria, was published in June 2024, with the fifth in the series scheduled for 2026.

Anna is Mallorca correspondent for The Telegraph (UK), where she writes as the island’s destination expert and hotel reviewer, and she contributes regularly to leading UK publications.

In 2001, Anna and her husband left London for the Sóller valley in northwest Mallorca. What was meant to be a bold lifestyle experiment became a lifelong love affair with the island. She now lives in rural Sóller and continues to explore its hidden corners, folklore and history — both on the page and on foot.

She has presented at the Oxford Literary Festival, speaks regularly at literary events and cultural associations, and was the first Briton to receive the Siurell de Plata from the Balearic Government in recognition of her contribution to promoting island culture.

When she’s not writing, Anna can be found climbing Mallorca’s peaks (she and a friend are close to completing all 54 mountains over 1,000m), training for international marathons, or researching her next story in a village café.