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Riders, Vol. 2
The brooding Jake Lovell, under whose hands the most difficult horse or woman becomes biddable, is driven to the top by his loathing of the darling of the show ring, Rupert Campbell-Black. Having filched each other's horses, and fought and fornicated their way around the capitals of Europe, the feud between the two men finally erupts with devastating consequences at the Los Angeles Olympics.
Mount!
Rupert Campbell-Black takes centre stage once more, this time in the cut-throat world of flat racing. Rupert is consumed by one obsession: that Love Rat, his adored grey horse, be proclaimed champion stallion. He longs to trounce Roberto's Revenge, the stallion owned by his detested rival Cosmo Rannaldini, which means abandoning his racing empire at Penscombe and his darling wife Taggie, and chasing winners in the richest races worldwide, from Dubai to Los Angeles to Melbourne. Luckily, the fort at home is held by Rupert's assistant Gav, a genius with horses, fancied by every stable lass, but damaged by alcoholism and a vile wife. When Gala, a grieving but ravishing Zimbabwean widow moves to...
Rivals
Into The Cut-Throat World Of Corinium Television Comes Declan O Hara, A Mega-Star Of Great Glamour And Integrity With A Radiant Feckless Wife, A Handsome Son And Two Ravishing Teenage Daughters. Living Rather Too Closely Across The Valley Is Rupert Campbell-Black, Divorced And As Dissolute As Ever, And Now The Tory Minister For Sport. Declan Needs Only A Few Days At Corinium To Realise That The Managing Director, Lord Baddingham, Is A Crook Who Has Recruited Him Merely To Help Retain The Franchise For Corinium. Baddingham Has Also Enticed Cameron Cook, A Gorgeous But Domineering Woman Executive, To Produce Declan S Programme. Declan And Cameron Detest Each Other, Provoking A Storm Of Controversy Into Which Rupert Plunges With His Usual Abandon. As A Rival Group Emerges To Pitch For The Franchise, Reputations Ripen And Decline, True Love Blossoms And Burns, Marriages Are Made And Shattered, And Sex Raises Its (Delicious) Head At Almost Every Throw As, In Bed And Boardroom, The Race Is On To Capture The Cotswold Crown.
Wicked!
At Bagley Hall, a notoriously wild, but increasingly academic, independent, crammed with the children of the famous, trouble is afoot. The ambitious and fatally attractive headmaster, Hengist Brett-Taylor, hatches a plan to share the facilities of his school with Larkminster Comprehensive - known locally, as 'Larks'. His reasons for doing so are purely financial, but he is encouraged by the opportunities the scheme gives him for frequent meetings with Janna Curtis, the dynamic new head of Larks, who has been drafted in to save what is a fast-sinking school from closure. Janna is young, pretty, enthusiastic and vastly brave - and she will do anything to rescue her demoralised, run-down and cash-strapped school. Neither parents nor staff of either school are too keen on this radical move, although some can see the possible financial advantages. For the students, however, it offers great opportunities to get up to even more mayhem than usual.
Polo
Ricky France-Lynch was moody, macho and magnificent and had a large crumbling estate, a nine-goal polo handicap and a beautiful manipulative wife who was fair game for anyone with a chequebook. He also has the adoration of 14 year-old Perdita Macleod. It is not long before his life explodes into tragedy.
Appassionata. Jilly Cooper
Abigail Rosen, nicknamed Appassionata, was the sexiest, most flamboyant violinist in classical music, but she was also the loneliest and the most exploited girl in the world. When a dramatic suicide attempt destroyed her violin career, she set her sights on the male-dominated heights of the conductor's rostrum. Given the chance to take over the Rutminster Symphony Orchestra, Abby is ecstatic, not realising the RSO is in hock up to its neck and is composed of the wildest bunch of musicians ever to blow a horn or caress a fiddle. Abby finds it increasingly difficult to control her undisciplined rabble and pretend she is not madly attracted to the fatally glamorous horn player, Viking O'Neill, who claims droit de seigneur over every pretty woman joining the orchestra. And then Rannaldini, arch-fiend and international maestro, rolls up with Machiavellian plans of his own to sabotage the RSO. Effervescent as champagne, Jilly Cooper's novel brings back old favourites like Rupert and Taggie Campbell-Black, but also ends triumphantly with a rampageous orchestral tour of Spain and the high drama of an international piano competition.
Lisa and Co
Fall in love with Jilly Cooper, one of Britain's most popular authors, in this wonderful collection of upbeat and hilarious short stories. Fans of Jojo Moyes, Marian Keyes, Dolly Alderton and Jane Fallon will love this perfect dose of escapism - guaranteed to have you laughing out loud! 'The Jane Austen of our time' -- Harpers and Queen 'I've read this book before and it never fails to delight me' -- ***** Reader review 'Love it' -- ***** Reader review 'Utterly fabulous' -- ***** Reader review 'Charming' -- ***** Reader review 'A real treat from start to finish' -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************************************** From an author who has endeared herself to millions of readers and bewitched them all, comes a sparkling collection of love stories that are both moving and funny. As well as Lisa, we meet Hester, Julia, Helen and Caroline, and a host of other devastating girls, falling in and out of love, finding, losing (and often finding again sometimes in the most unexpected places) the men of their dreams. Lisa & Co could only have been written by the unique Jilly Cooper.
Jump!
In Jump! you will meet rich capricious owners, obsessive trainers and gallant stable lads and lasses; you will get to know the tough, brave jockeys; and you will fall in love with the horses, and above all with Mrs Wilkinson herself -- hilarious, heroic and so gutsy she will gallop into your heart forever.
Riders
'Sex and horses: who could ask for more?' Sunday Telegraph Set against the glorious Cotswold countryside, Riders offers an intoxicating blend of swooning romance, adventure and hilarious high jinks. Brooding hero Jake Lovell, under whose magic hands even the most difficult horse or woman is charmed, is driven by his loathing of the dashing darling of the show ring, Rupert Campbell-Black. Having pinched each other's horses and drunk their way around the capitals of Europe, the feud between the two men finally erupts with devastating consequences at the Los Angeles Olympics . . . A classic bestseller, Riders takes the lid off international show jumping, a sport where the brave horses are almost human, but the humans behave like animals. 'Joyful and mischievous' Jojo Moyes 'Exhilarating, irresistible and one of our nation's most beloved novels' Jill Mansell 'Jilly Cooper is the funniest and the sharpest writer there is' Jenny Colgan 'Flawlessly entertaining' Helen Fielding
The Common Years
During the ten years she lived at the edge of Putney Common Jilly Cooper walked daily on this expanse of green. For most of the time she lived there she kept a diary, noting the effects of the changing seasons and writing about her encounters with dogs and humans. The book is a distillation of those diaries: an affectionate and enthralling portrait - warts and all - of life on Putney Common. Never has Jilly Cooper written more lyrically about flowers, trees, birds and the natural world; more tellingly about the sorrows - as well as the joys - of caring for dogs and children; or more outrageously about the gossip, illicit romances and jealousies of life in a small community.
