Anne Digby

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...

 wrote fourteen school story

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 novel

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s set in the fictional school Trebizon, published between 1978 and 1994. Like Enid Blyton

Enid Blyton

Enid Blyton was an English children's writer also known as Mary Pollock.Noted for numerous series of books based on recurring characters and designed for different age groups,her books have enjoyed huge success in many parts of the world, and have sold over 600 million copies.One of Blyton's most...

's much earlier creation, Malory Towers

Malory Towers

Malory Towers is a series of six novels by British children's author Enid Blyton, featuring the fictional Cornish seaside boarding school of the same name...

, Trebizon is located in Cornwall

Cornwall

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.

The novels follow the protagonist

Protagonist

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 Rebecca Mason from when she joins the school in the second form through to the end of her fifth year. A major theme throughout the series is Rebecca's burgeoning talent for tennis

Tennis

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. Other major characters include Rebecca's two best friends

Friendship

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, Tish Anderson and Susan Murdoch, and boyfriend

Boyfriend

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 Robbie Anderson.

Despite their more recent publication

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 dates, the later books in the series are substantially harder to obtain than the earlier ones. This may be because fewer copies were printed during the 1990s recession

Recession

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 in the UK book trade

Publishing

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. The series is currently out of print

Out of print

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 but retains a dedicated fan base and titles frequently change hands in a thriving second hand

Second Hand

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 market.

Some of the rarer books in the series are currently being reprinted by Fidra Books

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.

Series details

Book	Title	Publisher	Date	ISBN
1	First Term at Trebizon	W.H. Allen	October 1978	ISBN 0-491-02007-4
2	Second Term at Trebizon		February 1979	ISBN 0-491-02327-8
3	Summer Term at Trebizon		August 1979	ISBN 0-491-02378-2
4	Boy Trouble at Trebizon	Granada	August 1980	ISBN 0-246-11421-5
5	More Trouble at Trebizon		March 1981	ISBN 0-246-11425-8
6	The Tennis Term at Trebizon		January 1982	ISBN 0-246-11423-1
7	Summer Camp at Trebizon		June 1982	ISBN 0-246-11764-8
8	Into the Fourth at Trebizon		November 1982	ISBN 0-246-11866-0
9	The Hockey Term at Trebizon		February 1984	ISBN 0-246-11867-9
10	Fourth Year Triumphs at Trebizon		October 1985	ISBN 0-246-11868-7
11	The Ghostly Term at Trebizon	Puffin Puffin Books Puffin Books is the children's imprint of British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s it has been the largest publisher of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world.-Early history:...	February 1990	ISBN 0-14-034274-5
12	Fifth Year Friendships at Trebizon		June 1990	ISBN 0-14-034275-3
13	Secret Letters at Trebizon	Straw Hat	January 1993	ISBN 0-9520571-0-7
14	The Unforgettable Fifth at Trebizon		May 1994	ISBN 0-9520571-7-4

External links

• Chapter 1 of Secret Letters at Trebizon