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Jilly Cooper
The brand-new book from the legendary Jilly Cooper, featuring the iconic Rupert Campbell-Black. Be prepared for scandal, sex and sabotage - this time on the football field...
Jilly Cooper's legendary…
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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…
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Rupert is consumed by one obsession: that Love Rat, his adored grey horse, be proclaimed champion stallion. When Gala, a grieving but ravishing Zimbabwean widow moves to Penscombe as carer…
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Barbara Pym
A charming and funny tale of match-making misadventures by an author whose fans include Philip Larkin, Alexander McCall Smith and Jilly Cooper.
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The legendary Jilly Cooper on sex, socialising and survival. A classic collection of Jilly’s most-loved journalism showcasing her trademark wit, irreverence and caustically sharp observations to delight and entertain her…
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‘There is no one else like Cooper’ Guardian When Jilly Cooper, then a young Sunday Times journalist, was asked to write a book on marriage, she had been married to…
Sir Robert Rannaldini had two ambitions: to seduce his stepdaughter Tabitha Campbell-Black, and to put his mark on musical history by making the film of Verdi’s opera, Don Carlos. As…
‘One truth I have learnt, as middle age enmeshes me like Virginia creeper, is that I shall never change-because my capacity for self-improvement is absolutely nil.’ A classic collection of…
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A distillation of diaries compiled when the author lived beside Putney Common. They note the changing seasons and her encounters with dogs and their owners, and offer a portrait of…
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Christmas is looming. Will your mother-in-law present you with yet another hideous jersey this year? How are you going to cope with Granny’s peke or the undesirable in-laws? Has the…
First published by Heinemann, Jilly Cooper has written a tribute to the role of animals in wartime. Many won medals for gallantry, like Rob, a mongrel, who made over 20…
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…
A light-hearted romp from ‘The Jane Austen of our time’ - Harpers & Queen
Describing herself as upper middle class , Jilly Cooper claims that snobbery is alive and kicking! Meet her characters - Mr and Mrs Nouveau-Richards, Harry Stow-Crat and Jen Teale, and…
Into the cut-throat world of Corinium television comes Declan O'Hara, a mega-star of glamour with a radiant feckless wife, a handsome son and two teenage daughters. Declan needs only a…
Discovered by a young lieutenant, Raymond Kelvedon in a Normandy Chateau in 1944, she had cast her spell over his family. Hanging in a turret of their lovely Cotswold house…
Etta Bancroft - sweet, kind, still beautiful - adores racing and harbours a crush on one of its stars, the handsome high-handed owner-trainer Rupert Campbell-Black. The filly charms everyone in…
Fourteen wonderful tales by ‘the Jane Austen of our time’ Harpers & Queen.
Ricky France-Lynch is moody, macho, and magnificent. He had a large crumbling estate, a nine-goal polo handicap, and a beautiful wife who was fair game for anyone with a cheque…
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…
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…
A riotous #1 British bestseller about life and love in the glitzy world of television
They are four rich and famous rivals, four experts in the game of power, four…
Into the cut-throat world of Corinium television comes mega-star Declan O'Hara. Declan soon realises that the Managing Director, Lord Baddingham, has recruited him merely to help retain the franchise for…
Carol Baby
Every year many thousands of racing greyhounds retire from the racetrack and are successfully re-homed through dedicated greyhound charities. Written in association with Greyhound Rescue West of England, this title…
Ian Rankin
A specially designed collector’s hardback set of KNOTS AND CROSSES, BLACK AND BLUE and EXIT MUSIC with exclusive extra material only available in this box set.
Thanks to the contribution of leading researchers, 'The Future is Now' represents the go-to book for anyone seeking a comprehensive, state-of-the-art, and thought-provoking introduction to the thriving field of prefigurative…
E.M. Delafield
* A delightful and witty celebration of the suburban British housewife
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This edited collection analyses the unique characteristics of urban gardens, worker-owned coops, ecological communities, occupied factories and other social movements to demonstrate what we can learn from them in order…
