Jo Thomas

Jo Thomas worked for many years as a reporter and producer, first for BBC Radio 5, Radio Wales and BBC Radio 2.

In 2013 Jo won the RNA Katie Fforde Bursary. Her debut novel, The Oyster Catcher, was a runaway bestseller in ebook and was awarded the 2014 RNA Joan Hessayon Award and the 2014 Festival of Romance Best eBook Award. Jo’s books are about food and love, family and fun and she believes every story should have a happy ending.

Her books have been described as ‘a great big cwtch’: a great big hug in Welsh as well as ‘sunny and funny’. Jo loves to travel and research her books in and around the Mediterranean and European locations. But no matter in which country they are set, they are all about the food we gather, cook and put on the table for the ones we love.

​Jo lives between the Vale of Glamorgan and Pembrokeshire with some of her three children, her husband, a Jack Russell called Dolly and her golden retriever, Henri.  

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Books by Jo Thomas

  • A Place in the Sun (Transworld)

    A Recipe for Christmas (Transworld)

    Love In Provence (Transworld)

    A Recipe for Happiness & Other Stories (Transworld)

    Countdown to Christmas (Transworld)

    Summer at the Ice Cream Café (Transworld)

    Keeping A Christmas Promise (Transworld)

    Retreat to the Spanish Sun (Transworld)

    Celebrations at the Chateau (Transworld)

    Chasing the Italian Dream (Transworld)

    Keeping A Christmas Promise (Transworld)

    Escape to the French Farmhouse (Transworld)

    Coming Home to Winter Island (Headline)

    My Lemon Grove Summer (Headline)

    A Winter Beneath the Stars (Headline)

    Sunset Over the Cherry Orchard (Headline)

    The Honey Farm on the Hill (Headline)

    Notes from the Northern Lights (novella) (Headline)

    Late Summer in the Vineyard (Headline)

    The Olive Branch (Headline)

    The Oyster Catcher (Headline)

    The Chestnut Tree (Headline)