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Jan 14, 2026 8:28 PM

Author:Jilly Cooper

Riders

'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!’

Reviews

Sex and horses: who could ask for more?

—— Sunday Telegraph

‘Fun, sexy and unputdownable – a classic’

—— Marian Keyes

Joyful 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 Moyes

Jilly 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 Colgan

Jilly 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 DIARY

Exhilarating, 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 Mansell

It's all here: swooning romance, skulduggery in the stables and, yes, bonking; all set in the Cotswold countryside. Tally ho!

—— Elle

Blockbusting fiction at its best

—— Mail on Sunday

I defy anyone not to enjoy her book. It is a delight from start to finish

—— Auberon Waugh , Daily Mail

Has any book of the past 70 years given as much pleasure as Cooper's rumpy-pumpy, show-jumping classis?

—— The Times

I 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 Keyes

Sparkling savage and remarkably sexy.

—— Daisy Goodwin

A wickedly funny, biting satire of Notting Hill's basement-digging class. My absolute guiltiest read this summer.

—— Plum Sykes

The Jane Austen of W11

—— Scotsman on Winter Games

An addictively funny read about the lives of the rich and richer. Four stars

—— Heat on Notting Hell

Smart, pacy, and hysterically funny

—— Deirdre O’Brien , Sunday Mirror

This provocative debut explores whether monogamy is all it’s cracked up to be

—— Glamour

Witty, sparkling and a dissection of monogamy and happiness... Entertaining

—— Lady

Here 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
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