Set against the glorious Cotswold countryside and the playgrounds of the world, Jilly Cooper's "Rutshire Chronicles", "Riders", "Rivals", "Polo", "The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous", "Appassionata" and "Score"!, offer an intoxicating blend of skulduggery, swooning romance, sexual adventure and hilarious high jinks. "Riders", the first and ...
Ricky France-Lynch was moody, macho and magnificent. Nicknamed El Orgulloso, 'the proud one', he 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 had the adoration of fourteen-year-old Perdita Macleod. Perdita couldn't wait to leave her dreary school, ...
Britain's number one bestselling author turns her brilliant pen to the explosive world of education. Two schools, both in leafy Larkminster, but worlds apart, are turned upside down when the ambitious and fatally attractive headmaster of fashionable Bagley Hall, Hengist Brett-Taylor, hatches a plan to share the highly superior facilities of his ...
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 ...
CLASS IS DEAD! Or so everyone claims. Who better to refute this than Jilly Cooper! Describing herself as 'upper middle class', Jilly claims that snobbery is very much alive and thriving! Meet her hilarious characters! People like Harry Stow-Crat, Mr and Mrs Nouveau-Richards, Samantha and Gideon Upward, and Jen Teale and her husband Brian. Roar ...
Known as L'Appassionata, her real name was Abigail Rosen and she was the sexiest, most flamboyant violinist on the music scene. She was also the loneliest girl in the world. When a suicide attempt destroyed her career as a violinist, Abby was determined to conquer the conductor's rostrum.
Lysander Hawkley combined breathtaking good looks with the kindest of hearts. He couldn't pass a stray dog, an ill-treated horse, or a neglected wife without rushing to the rescue. And with neglected wives the rescue invariably led to ecstatic bonking, which didn't please their erring husbands one bit. Lysander's mid-life crisis had begun at ...
Jilly Cooper's ritzy, riotous new novel takes the lid off the international art world - where successful young artists strut around like rock stars, where artful and crafty dealers indulge in every kind of gallery-pokery, and where the more beautiful the painting, the greater the backstabbing. No picture ever came more beautiful than Raphael's ...
Lysander Hawkley combined breathtaking good looks with the kindest of hearts. He couldn't pass a stray dog, an ill-treated horse or neglected wife without rushing to the rescue. The trouble begins when he decides that the wife of Rannaldini, the world-famous conductor, needs rescuing.
Shy, dreamy, and incurably romantic, Harriet Poole was shattered when her brief affair with Simon Villiers, Oxford's leading playboy undergraduate, ended abruptly, leaving her penniless, alone and pregnant. Still hopelessly in love with Simon, she took baby William and buried herself in deepest Yorkshire as nanny to the children of Cory Erskine, a ...
Sir Robert Rannaldini, the most successful but most detested conductor in the world, has two ambitions: first, to seduce Tabitha, the ravishing nineteen-year-old daughter of his arch-rival, Rupert Campbell-Black; second, to make the definitive film of Don Carlos, Verdi's darkest opera. To this end he enlists the help of his charismatic French ...
As soon as Octavia caught a glimpse of Jeremy in the nightclub, she knew she just had to have him. It didn't matter that he'd just got engaged to an old school friend of hers, plump, good natured Gussie; he was looking at Octavia in the way that suggested bed rather than breakfast, and she was weak at the knees...But Octavia was used to men ...
As a librarian, Imogen read a lot of books, but none of them covered real life on the Riviera. Her holiday with tennis ace, Nicky, and the whole glamorous coterie of journalist, playboy, photographer, was a revelation - and so was she. A prize worth winning. A wild Yorkshire rose among the thorny model girls, Cable and Yvonne, with a rare asset ...
Lysander Hawkley combined breathtaking good looks with the kindest of hearts. He couldn't pass a stray dog, an ill-treated horse or neglected wife without rushing to the rescue. The trouble begins when he decides that the wife of Rannaldini, the world-famous conductor, needs rescuing.
A revised and updated edition of the guide to the festive season in which Cooper captures the essence of the season's inevitable conflicts and attempts to provide advice on surviving Christmas. Includes a poignant and wholly recognisable view of how an imaginary family celebrate Christmas.
Jilly Cooper has written a tribute to the role of animals in wartime. From the pigeons carrying vital messages to and from the beleaguered city during the Seige of Paris to dogs sniffing out mines for the British invasion force in World War II. A vivid record of man's inhumanity to animals, and an astonishing story of courage.
This is a collection of Jilly Cooper's pieces from "The Mail on Sunday". She has interviewed Margaret Thatcher, Neil Kinnock, the cast of "East Enders" and the proprietress of a brothel in the Nevada Desert. She describes, among other things, her childhood memories of VE Day, a peculiar interview with Princess Michael of Kent, the bizarreness of ...
Alan Hydes, a TV artist, tells how he painted the portraits of many celebrities and gives useful hints, tips and practical advice on how to paint people, as well as several step-by-step portraits painted especially for the book. There are chapters on lighting the sitter, underpainting and facial structure, how to paint flesh tones and the ...
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