Author:Jilly Cooper

'Fun, sexy and unputdownable - a classic' Marian Keyes
‘Flawlessly entertaining’ Helen Fielding
‘Joyful and mischievous’ Jojo Moyes
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.
‘Sex and horses: who could ask for more?’ Sunday Telegraph
Readers can’t resist Riders
***** ‘wildly entertaining’
***** ‘pure racy escapism’
***** ‘Rupert really is as fabulous as people say!’
Sex and horses: who could ask for more?
—— Sunday Telegraph‘Fun, sexy and unputdownable – a classic’
—— Marian KeyesJoyful and mischievous. I know of no woman my age who won't admit that Rupert Campbell-Black nearly ruined them for other men for life . . .
—— Jojo MoyesJilly Cooper is the funniest and the sharpest writer there is. A heroine, an influence and a legend to half my generation of female authors (the fun half)
—— Jenny ColganJilly Cooper’s writing is hilarious, witty, wise, astute, flawlessly entertaining and a celebration of all that is the most fun about being British
—— Helen Fielding, author of BRIDGET JONES DIARYExhilarating, irresistible and one of our nation’s most beloved novels. If you’re about to read Riders for the first time, you’re in for a joyous experience!
—— Jill MansellIt's all here: swooning romance, skulduggery in the stables and, yes, bonking; all set in the Cotswold countryside. Tally ho!
—— ElleBlockbusting fiction at its best
—— Mail on SundayI defy anyone not to enjoy her book. It is a delight from start to finish
—— Auberon Waugh , Daily MailHas any book of the past 70 years given as much pleasure as Cooper's rumpy-pumpy, show-jumping classis?
—— The TimesI ADORED it. It's the most fun I've had with a book in a long time, and I love how she writes - so many dazzling sentences and phrases.
—— Marian KeyesSparkling savage and remarkably sexy.
—— Daisy GoodwinA wickedly funny, biting satire of Notting Hill's basement-digging class. My absolute guiltiest read this summer.
—— Plum SykesThe Jane Austen of W11
—— Scotsman on Winter GamesAn addictively funny read about the lives of the rich and richer. Four stars
—— Heat on Notting HellSmart, pacy, and hysterically funny
—— Deirdre O’Brien , Sunday MirrorThis provocative debut explores whether monogamy is all it’s cracked up to be
—— GlamourWitty, sparkling and a dissection of monogamy and happiness... Entertaining
—— LadyHere is a heroine who scores a solid ten on the sass-o-meter, and she made the whole reading experience a hoot… Guilt-free fun with this deliciously rampant romp.
—— Sarah Hughes , Heat