Sally Smith is a journalist and entertaining writer who has worked for various publications and media including as a foreign correspondent for the Daily Mail and BBC News in England and ABC News in Australia. She was named Business Writer of the Year, has a Churchill Fellowship and is an established author with books published by Pelham Books, Rigby Books and The History Press. She has spent a lifetime involved in women’s aviation including as a member of both British and Australian aviation teams, was founder of the world’s first all-girl parachute display team, British women’s freefall parachute champion, second overall female at the World Ballooning Championships and a commercial balloon pilot. Sally has recently been awarded the Royal Aeronautical Society’s 2024 Women in Aviation, Aerospace and Space award.

Sally has also devoted much of her life to travel. She has lived on four continents, visited 72 countries and worked in major cities around the world from Cairo to Singapore and Tokyo to Perth, Western Australia and is an elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. She now continues to write from her home base in Somerset, UK.