Riders
Published on 4. June 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
928 pages
978-0-552-17242-4 (ISBN)
Description
Get your hands on the steamy prequel to Rivals, a must-read before Season 2 comes out on Disney+!
Welcome to the 80s, the decade of decadence. . . where everyone wants to get on top
'Fun, sexy and unputdownable - a classic' Marian Keyes
'Flawlessly entertaining' Helen Fielding
'Joyful and mischievous' Jojo Moyes
Fall in love with Jilly Cooper and escape to the glorious Cotswolds countryside, where 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!'
Jilly Cooper, Sunday Times bestseller, May 2024
Welcome to the 80s, the decade of decadence. . . where everyone wants to get on top
'Fun, sexy and unputdownable - a classic' Marian Keyes
'Flawlessly entertaining' Helen Fielding
'Joyful and mischievous' Jojo Moyes
Fall in love with Jilly Cooper and escape to the glorious Cotswolds countryside, where 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!'
Jilly Cooper, Sunday Times bestseller, May 2024
Reviews / Votes
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 * Daily Mail * Has any book of the past 70 years given as much pleasure as Cooper's rumpy-pumpy, show-jumping classis? * The Times *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 45 mm
Weight
631 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-552-17242-4 (9780552172424)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Jilly Cooper was a journalist, author and media superstar. The author of many number one bestselling books, she lived in Gloucestershire where her groundbreaking Rutshire Chronicles series was set.
Awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of Gloucestershire and Anglia Ruskin, she also won the inaugural Comedy Women in Print lifetime achievement award in 2019, and was appointed DBE in 2024 for services to literature and charity. She died in 2025.
Awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of Gloucestershire and Anglia Ruskin, she also won the inaugural Comedy Women in Print lifetime achievement award in 2019, and was appointed DBE in 2024 for services to literature and charity. She died in 2025.