Jo Foley Author

Jo Foley is a writer, editor and media consultant. A former editor of Woman, Options and the Observer magazine, she was also executive editor of the Times, managing editor of the Daily Mirror and woman's editor for the Sun. She writes on travel for the Sunday Telegraph, the Financial Times, Orient Express magazine, the Daily Mail, Tatler, Conde Nast Traveller and Harpers, and is a regular contributor to Woman & Home. She has been a consultant to H Bauer, the Illustrated London News Group and several online magazines, and has won a number of awards including Magazine Editor of the Year for her work on Woman. She was a member of the General Advisory Council of the BBC for four years. She has written books on diet, lifestyle and beauty as well as editing fiction and real life stories for the same company; travel books for American Express; Nicky Clarke's Hair Power; Shipwrecked, which accompanied the Channel 4 series; and most recently The Great British Picnic Guide. Her own Great Spa Escapes, a guide to some of the most opulent spas in the world, was published six years ago.