Jilly Cooper

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Title: The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous: Description:
Lysander Hawkly 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 recue.And with neglected wives the rescue invariably led to estatic bonking,which didn't please their erring husbands one bit. Lysander's mid life crisis had begun at twenty-two.Reeling from the death of his beautiful mother,he was out of work,drinking to much,and desperately in debt.The solution came from Ferdie,his fat friend: if Lysander was so good at making husbands jealous,why shouldn't he get paid for it? Let loose among the neglected wives of the ritzy county of Rutshire,Lysander causes absolute havoc.But it is only when he meets Rannaldini,Rutshire's King Rat and a temperamental,fiendishly promiscuous international conductor,that the trouble really starts.The only unglamorous woman around Rannaldini was Kitty.Soon Lysander was convinced that Kitty must be rescued from Rannaldini at all costs,even if it means enlisting the help of the old blue-eyed havoc maker: Rupert Campbell-Black. This new Rutshire chronicle continues the high jinks of the rich and famous that have so lavishly enertained the countless readers of RIDERS,RIVALS and POLO.

Title: Octavia: Description:
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Title: Polo: Description:
Ricky France-Lynch was moody,macho and magnificent.He had a large crumbling estate,a nine polo handicap,and a beautiful wife who was fair game for anyone with a chequebook.He also had the adoration of fourteen-year-old Perdita MacLeod.Perdita couldn'y wait to leave her dreary school and become a polo player.The polo set were ritzy,wild,and gloriously promiscuous.Perdita thought she'd get along with them very well. But before she had time to grow up,Ricky's life exploded into tragedy,and Perdita turned into a brat who loved only her horses - and Ricky France-Lynch. Ricky's obsession to win back his wife,and Perdita's to win both Ricky and a place as a top-class polo player,take the reader on a wildly exciting journey - to the estancias of Argentina,to Palm Beach and Deauville,and on to the royal polo fields of England and the glamorous pitches of California wherethe most heroic battle of all is destined to be fought - a match that is about far more than just the winning of a huge silver cup...

Title: Lisa & Co: Description:
Here is a book of stories of great variety and undoubted class from an author who has endeared herself to millions of readers and bewitched them all. 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 is a sparkling collection of love stories that are both moving and funny and could only have been written by the unique Jilly Cooper.

Title: Appassionata: Description:
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.

Title: Score!: Description:
Sir Roberto Rannaldini, the most successful but detested conductor in the world, had two ambitions: to seduce his ravishing nineteen year-old stepdaughter, Tabitha Campbell-Black, and to put his mark on musical history by making the definitive film of Verdi's darkest opera, Don Carlos.

Title: Riders: Description:
The first and steamiest in the series, takes the lid off international show jumping, a sport where the brave horses are almost human, but the humans behave like animals.

Title: Rivals: Description:
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 close across the valley is Rupert Campbell-Black, divorced and as dissolute as ever, and now the Tory Minister for Sport.

Title: Imogen (the Jilly Cooper Collection): Description:
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.

Title: Harriet (the Jilly Cooper Collection): Description:
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Title: Pandora: Description:
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 Pandora. Discovered by a dashing young lieutenant, Raymond Belvedon, in a Normandy Chateau in 1944, she had cast her spell over the Belvedon family - all artists and dealers - for fifty years. Hanging in a turret of their lovely Cotswold house, Pandora witnessed Raymond's tempestuous wife Galena both entertaining a string of lovers and giving birth to her four children. These children grow up into chilly, manipulative Jupiter, who runs the family gallery, Alizarin the high-handed loner, Jonathan, who blithely beds every beauty he paints, and superbrat Sienna, shortlisted for the Turner Prize. Pandora, meanwhile, has been locked away in her turret, increasing her colossal value by the second. Then an exquisite stranger rolls up, claiming to be a long-lost daughter of the family and setting the three Belvedon brothers at one another's throats. Accompanying her is Zach, her fatally glamorous American Jewish boyfriend, whose very different agenda includes an unhealthy interest in the Raphael. During a firework party, the painting is stolen. The hunt to retrieve it takes the reader on a thrilling journey to Vienna, Geneva, Paris, New York and London. After a nail-biting court case and a record-smashing Old Masters sale at Sotheby's, passionate love triumphs and Pandora is restored to her rightful home. From the Publisher Love, high living, intrigue and a missing painting in the sparkling new novel from the nation’s best-loved writer. From the Back Cover No picture ever came more beautiful than Raphael's Pandora. Discovered by a dashing young lieutenant, Raymond Belvedon, in a Normandy Chateau in 1944, she had cast her spell over his family - all artists and dealers - for fifty years. Hanging in a turret of their lovely Cotswold house, Pandora witnessed Raymond's tempestuous wife Galena both entertaining a string of lovers, and giving birth to her four children: Jupiter, Alizarin, Jonathan and superbrat Sienna. Then an exquisite stranger rolls up, claiming to be a long-lost daughter of the family, setting the three Belvedon brothers at each other's throats. Accompanying her is her fatally glamorous boyfriend, whose very different agenda includes an unhealthy interest in the Raphael. During a fireworks party, the painting is stolen. The hunt to retrieve it takes the reader on a thrilling journey to Vienna, Geneva, Paris, New York and London. After a nail-biting court case and a record-smashing Old Masters sale at Sotheby's, passionate love triumphs and Pandora is restored to her rightful home. About the Author Jilly Cooper is a well-known journalist, writer and media superstar, and is the author of many number one bestselling novels, including Riders, Rivals, Polo, The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, Appassionata, Score!, Pandora and Wicked.Jilly and her husband live in Gloucestershire. She was appointed OBE for services to literature in the 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours List. Excerpted from Pandora by Jilly Cooper. Copyright © 2002. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. 1961Raymond succeeded beyond everyone’s wildest dreams. After the excitement of liberating Europe and a brief stint at Cambridge, he found equal thrills in transforming the respectable but slightly sleepy family gallery, the Belvedon in Cork Street, into one of the most successful in London.To begin with, he worked all hours to blot out the horror of Viridian’s death, but gradually he began to enjoy himself, developing a distinctly buccaneering attitude to art. Draconian export laws he felt deserved to be broken. Nor should one question too closely where a beautiful picture came from. Many a masterpiece was soon being smuggled abroad in the false bottom of his briefcase or brought home in the hold of the boat in which he took holidays each summer. Winter saw him with a permanent ski tan acquired while depositing illegal currency in the gallery’s Swiss bank account.Back in London, collectors fainted when given the occasional peep at the Old Masters stored in the Belvedon vaults. !Raymond knew where to find a treasure and where to place it. Each time he was invited to stay in some great house, he left a less faded square on the damask wallpaper, having gently convinced his hostess that this was the optimum time to part with the Velásquez.As the gallery’s success increased, so did Raymond’s eligibility. Invitations poured in for dances, but as Raymond circled the ballrooms of the Hyde Park Hotel and Claridge’s, fluttering the hearts of the debs and their mothers, he made sure he got his name in the address book of the fathers: aristocrats who might want to flog a Gainsborough to pay for the season, nouveau riche businessmen who needed guidance on adorning the walls of their big new houses.Raymond was such a charming chap, so unsnooty, he could be relied on to act as an advisor and to sell you something really good when it came along – even if sadly he showed no signs of marrying your daughter.Only in the same area had Raymond disappointed his parents. !At nearly thirty-seven, he had still failed to marry and produce an heir. Raymond’s mother had a weak chest and his father, who was champing to retire permanently to the house in Provence, was threatening to hand Foxes Court, the main family home, over to Raymond’s elder sister and her husband, who was thinking of leaving the diplomatic service, if Raymond didn’t get a move on. But Raymond was a romantic. He could no more marry a woman he didn’t love than exhibit an artist whose work he didn’t admire.Raymond, who had a flair for anticipating changes in taste, had specialized not only in Old Masters and Pre-Raphaelites, which were beginning to rise in value, but also living artists. Two of the latter were a married couple in their thirties: Colin Casey Andrews and Joan Bideford. Casey Andrews’s huge part-abstract landscapes of the Cornish coast were already selling well and in early May 1961, Joan had just completed such a successful debut show at the Belvedon that she had felt justified in throwing a party to celebrate.She chose a beautiful Saturday evening – Viridian’s birthday, in fact – Viridian the virile, who would have produced half a dozen heirs by now, had he not been blown to bits leading his men at Monte Cassino without even a grave on which to put flowers.Having taken down Joan Bideford’s exhibition on the Friday before her party, Raymond and Eddie, his packer, had spent hours hanging the paintings of Raymond’s latest discovery, a Frenchman called Etienne de Montigny, for the private view on Monday. Was it deliberately to eradicate the memory of Viridian’s death that, at two o’clock in the morning, a sleepless Raymond had wandered down from the flat above the gallery and, deciding the pictures looked irredeemably garish and vulgar, had summoned Eddie the packer from the warmth of his girlfriend’s bed in Battersea to repaint the stark white walls behind them?Against a background of two coats of Prussian blue emulsion, the pictures looked sensational, like lit-up liners in a night-dark sea. Nor had Eddie minded labouring all night and through Saturday. At seven shillings an hour, he could take his girlfriend out on the toot this evening, and sleep it off tomorrow.And Raymond was such a lovely bloke to work for, even if he did have mad notions and was picky about pictures being hung a millimetre too far to the left. He was so appreciative. He never talked down, and the tales he’d told Eddie about the Gods and Goddesses as they rehung the paintings would make your hair curl.‘That nymph being poked by that bull, Eddie, is actually the wife of the French Minister of Agriculture.’Having showered upstairs and emerged beautiful as the evening star in his dinner jacket, Raymond had been distracted by a small oil of a languid youth admiring his white naked reflection in a pond.‘Exquisite,’ he murmured.‘He’ll get sunburn if he don’t put on his shirt, and you’re going to be late for that party,’ chided Eddie, taking! a pale pink rose from the vase on the reception desk and slotting it into Raymond’s buttonhole. ‘I’ll lock up. Don’t let Joan and Casey Andrews bully you. Invitation said bring a bottle.’‘Oh hell.’‘Here, take the Jack Daniel’s that Yank brought you.’‘Thanks, Eddie.’ Raymond gazed round happily. ‘That blue’s made all the difference. I can’t thank you enough. See you Monday.’As he emerged from the white-fronted eighteenth-century terrace house, with the dark blue Belvedon Gallery sign swaying in the warm breeze, the prostitutes who plied their trade along Cork Street wolf-whistled.‘Who’s the lovely toff?’ shouted a handsome blonde. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Title: Octavia: Description:
when octavia saw jeremy in the night club, 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; how could she fail to hook him?

Title: Polo: Description:
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, her pompous stepfather and gentle dreamy mother, and become a polo player. The polo set were ritzy, wild and gloriously promiscuous. Perdita thought she'd get along with them very well. But before she had time to grow up, Ricky's life exploded into tragedy, her mother sustained the shock of a lifetime, and Perdita turned into a brat who only loved her horses - and Ricky France-Lynch. Ricky's obsession to win back his wife, and Perdita's to win both Ricky and a place as a top-class polo player, take the reader on a wildly exciting journey - to the estancias and polo fields of Argentina, to Palm Beach and Deauville where the night-time parties are nearly as vlolent as the day-time matches, and on to the royal polo fields of England and the glamorous pitches of California where the most heroic battle of all is destined to be fought - a match that is about far more than just the winning of a huge silver cup...With Rupert Cambell-Black dominating the action with all the diabolical panache he displayed in 'Riders' and 'Rivals', here is this classic game in its full beauty and gladiatorial splendour - the wonderful bad brave men, the spoilt seductive women, the gallant gutsy ponies - all captured in Jilly Cooper's unputdownable style. You will laugh, you will cry, but above all you will live every marvellous moment of 'Polo'. From the Back Cover In Jilly Cooper's third Rutshire chronicle we meet Ricky France-Lynch, who 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 book. He also had the adoration of fourteen-year-old Perdita MacLeod. Perdita couldn't wait to leave her dreary school and become a polo player. The polo set were ritzy, wild, and gloriously promiscuous. Perdita thought she'd get along with them very well. But before she had time to grow up, Ricky's life exploded into tragedy, and Perdita turned into a brat who loved only her horses - and Ricky France-Lynch. Ricky's obsession to win back his wife, and Perdita's to win both Ricky and a place as a top class polo player, take the reader on a wildly exciting journey - to the estancias of Argentina, to Palm Beach and Deauville, and on to the royal polo fields of England and the glamorous pitches of California where the most heroic battle of all is destined to be fought - a match that is about far more than just the winning of a huge silver cup... About the Author Jilly Cooper is a well-known journalist, writer and media superstar, and is the author of many number one bestselling novels, including Riders, Rivals, Polo, The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, Appassionata, Score!, Pandora and Wicked.Jilly and her husband live in Gloucestershire. She was appointed OBE for services to literature in the 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours List.

Title: The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous: Description:
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. From the Back Cover 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 twenty-two. Reeling from the death of his beautiful mother, he was out of work, drinking too much, and desperately in debt. The solution came from Ferdie, his fat friend; if Lysander was so good at making husbands jealous, why shouldn't he get paid for it? Let loose among the neglected wives of the ritzy county of Rutshire, Lysander causes absolute havoc. But it is only when he meets Rannaldini, Rutshire's King Rat and a temperamental, fiendishly promiscuous international conductor, that the trouble really starts. The only unglamorous woman around Rannaldini was Kitty, his plump young wife who ran his life like clockwork. Soon Lysander was convinced that Kitty must be rescued from Rannaldini at all costs, even if it means enlisting the help of the old blue-eyed havoc maker: Rupert Campbell-Black. This fourth Rutshire chronicle continues the high jinks of the rich and famous that have so lavishly entertained the countless readers of Riders, Rivals and Polo. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. About the Author Jilly CooperJilly Cooper is a well-known journalist, writer and media superstar. The author of many bestselling books, including Riders, Rivals, Polo, The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, Appassionata and Score!, she and her husband live in Gloucestershire with several dogs and cats.

Title: How To Survive Christmas: Description:
There is no doubt that being prepared is the secret of a more harmonious Christmas. If Joseph had booked a room in advance, Jesus would not have been born in a stable. Remember that Christmas is not a culinary competition between mothers, daughters, sister in law and now that most men cook sons in law as well. women tend to behave as though they're taking a degree in Christmas and that the world will end if they get a third in sprouts, a forth in bacon rolls and fail bread sauce totally.

Title: Rivals: Description:
Fresh from the best selling triumph of Riders, Jilly Cooper now turns her effervescent talents to the cut-throat world of television.

Title: Angels Rush In: The Best Of Jilly Cooper's Satire And Humour: Description:
Contains extracts from the nine discursive books Jilly Cooper has written over the past two decades alongside her novels. The selection has been chosen by Jilly Cooper herself, and includes an introduction which provides insights into her own particular brand of satire and humour.

Title: Wicked!: Description:
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. From the Inside Flap Two schools – both in rural Larkshire, but worlds apart ... At Bagley Hall, a wild but increasingly academic independent school, set in ravishing countryside and crammed with the children of the rich and famous,trouble is afoot.Hengist Brett-Taylor, Bagley’scharismatic headmaster, is fully aware that the school will only be granted vast tax concessions if it is seen to be benefiting the local community. He therefore hatches a plan to share Bagley’s splendidfacilities with Larkminster Comprehensive – known locally as ‘Larks’. He is delighted that this will ensure frequent meetings with Janna Curtis, the dynamic new head of Larks, who has been drafted in to save what is a fast-sinking school. Janna isyoung, hot-headed and vastly brave, but faces a daunting task. Her pupils areout of control, her teachers bolshy, her governors unsupportive. Larks’s prime site has made it the target for greedy developers, who would like nothing better than to see the school closed down. Despite her passionate disapproval of independent schools andthe arrogant, utterly gorgeous Hengist,Janna will do anything to rescue her demoralized, cash-strapped school.She agrees to the bonding deal, although her teachers and the Bagley parents are horrified at the prospect. For the pupils, however, the scheme provides joyous opportunity for scandalous behaviour. Soon the Larks Lotharios are in hot pursuit of the luscious long-limbed Bagley Babes. A Welsh castle is trashed during an orgiastic geography field trip, a rugby match is enlivened by a Lower Fifth streaker, and Romeo and Juliet ends with a Bagley love rat unconscious in a flowerbed. When Rupert Campbell-Black, an utterly unacademic Bagley parent, is tricked into agreeing to sit English GCSE, his outrage is equalled only by fury that his lovely wife Taggie has defiantly taken a job as school cook at Larks. Janna, meanwhile, finds herself fatally drawn to Hengist.As the story races from the traumas of Ofsted and GCSEs to the high drama of the National Teaching Awards and a riotous visit from the Queen, will our heroine emerge with her heart and her school intact? As Posh meets Comp, both teachers and pupils not only find more in common than they ever dreamed, but discover true love where they least expect it. By turns hilarious, heart-warming and intensely moving, Wicked! is also about the courage of desperately disadvantaged children thriving against the odds, and the heroic teachers who never give up on them. It will make you laugh and cry, and keep you hooked until the very last page. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From the Back Cover Two schools: Bagley Hall, wild, ultra-smart independent, crammed with the children of the famous, and Larkminster Comprehensive, demoralised, cash-strapped and sinking fast. Janna Curtis, the young, feisty and highly attractive new head, drafted in to save the failing Larkminster comp, faces a daunting task. Her pupils are out of control, her teachers bolshy, and Larks’s prime site has made it the target for greedy developers. She detests private education, but to rescue Larks she will go to any lengths – even forming a partnership with Bagley Hall and its arrogant but utterly gorgeous headmaster, Hengist Brett-Taylor. Hengist, in turn, knows that sharing his school’s magnificent facilities with Larkminster Comp will not only bring him vast tax concessions, it will also ensure frequent meetings with the tempestuous but captivating Janna. Teachers and parents are horrified by suh a bonding, but for the pupils, the scheme provides joyous opportunity for scandalous behaviour. Will our heroine emerge with her heart and her school intact? ‘Can there be any other beach book this summer?’ Tatler ‘I devoured it with as much joy as I would a bucket of pistachio ice cream. It’s vintage stuff’ Daily Mail About the Author Jilly Cooper is a journalist, writer and media superstar.The author of many number one bestselling novels, including Riders, Rivals, Polo, The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, Appassionata, Score! and Pandora, she lives in Gloucestershire with her husband, Leo, and five cats. She was appointed OBE in the 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her contribution to literature.

Title: Pandora: Description:
The picture of Pandora hangs in Raymond Belevdon's house and witnesses his tempestuous wife having a string of affairs and 4 children. Then a beautiful stranger walks into his life claiming to be his long lost daughter. Then at a party, the picture is stolen . . .

Title: The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous: Description:
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.

Title: Harriett Imogen Octavia: Description:
Harriet - was shattered when her brief affair with playboy undergraduate Simon Villers ended leaving her penniless, alone and pregnant. her only chance was to take a nanny's job in remote Yorkshire with eccentric scriptwriter cory Erskine. She is settling in peacefully - until a stream of visitors disrupts everything ... Cory's estranged wife, his glamorous brother, and - of all people - Simon ... Imogen - the librarian has read a lot of books, but none covered real life on the Riviera. her holiday with a tennis ace and a coterie of journalists, playbosy, models and photographers is a revelation - and so is she. But the pat of a jet-set virgin in that lovely, wicked world is a hard one - and Imogen begins to wonder if virtue is its own reward ... Octavia - knows she must have Jeremy the moment she sees him - but he's engaged to an old school friend of hers: plump, pleasant Gussie. An invitation to join them on a canal barge is irresistible - how can she fail to hook her man? But the fourth of the party is Gareth, a swarthy Welshman with all the tenderness of a scrum-half ... And he certainly manages to thwart her plans!