Riders
- 928bladzijden
- 33 uur lezen
This steamy book blows the lid off international show jumping, a sport where the brave horses are almost human, and the humans behave like animals.
De Rutshire Kronieken Reeks
Deze serie speelt zich af tegen de achtergrond van het glorieuze Cotswold-platteland en de meest glamoureuze speelplaatsen ter wereld, en biedt een bedwelmende mix van schurkenstreken, zoetsappige romantiek en seksuele avonturen. Duik in een wereld vol hilarische capriolen en boeiende personages wier levens met dramatische flair met elkaar verweven zijn. Elk deel biedt een uniek kijkje in het leven van de aristocratie en de high society. Het is een boeiende mix van sociaal commentaar en luchtige escapisme.
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Rivals
- 729bladzijden
- 26 uur lezen
JILLY COOPER'S outrageous new novel is a riotous story of life behind the television screen. It marks the return of Rupert Campbell-Black, the unscrupulous hero of RIDERS, and explores the machinations and pleasures of the very rich, from the agonies of obession to the passions and betrayal of men and women used to getting what they want.
Ricky France-Lynch was moody, macho, and magnificent.nbsp;nbsp;He had a large crumbling estate, a nine-goal polo handicap, and a beautiful wife who was fair game for anyone with a chequebook.nbsp;nbsp;He also had the adoration of fourteen-year-old Perdita MacLeod.nbsp;nbsp;Perdita couldn't wait to leave her dreary school and become a polo player.nbsp;nbsp;The polo set were ritzy, wild, and gloriously promiscuous.nbsp;nbsp;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...
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. Soom 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 entertained the countless readers of RIDERS and POLO.
Appassionata
- 680bladzijden
- 24 uur lezen
Na een mislukte zelfmoordpoging besluit een succesvolle Engelse violiste dirigente te worden, maar moet veel moeilijkheden overwinnen voor ze in haar nieuwe carrière en privé het succes vindt.
Score!
- 800bladzijden
- 28 uur lezen
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. As Rannaldini, Tristan, his charismatic French director, a volatile cast and bolshy French crew gather at Rannaldini's haunted abbey for filming, it is inevitable that violent fewuds, abandoned bonking, temperamental screaming, and devious plotting will ensue. But although everyone "wished Rannaldini dead, no one actually thought the Maestro "would be murdered. Or that after the dreadful deed some very bizarre things would continue to occur. "SCORE! is Jilly Cooper's most thrilling novel to date.
Pandora
- 609bladzijden
- 22 uur lezen
No picture ever came more beautiful than Raphael's Pandora. Discovered by a dashing young lieutenant in 1944, she had cast her spell over the Belvedon family for 50 years. Hanging in a turret of their lovely Cotswold house, Pandora witnessed Raymond's wife Galena both entertaining a string of lovers and giving birth to her four children. During a firework party, the painting was stolen, and the hunt to retrieve it takes the reader on a thrilling journey to Vienna, Geneva, Paris, New York, and London.
Wicked!
- 1120bladzijden
- 40 uur lezen
Britain’s number one bestselling author turns her brilliant pen to the explosive world of education.Two schools, both in leafy Larkminster, but worlds apart, are turned upside down when the ambitious and fatally attractive headmaster of fashionable Bagley Hall, Hengist Brett-Taylor, hatches a plan to share the highly superior facilities of his school with the students at Larkminster Comprehensive. His reasons for doing so are purely financial but he is also encouraged by the opportunities the scheme gives him for frequent meetings with Janna Curtis, the young, pretty and enthusiastic new principal of the comprehensive school. The determined Janna has been drafted in to save what is a fast-sinking school from closure, and she will do anything to rescue her run-down, demoralized and cash-strapped school.The parents of Bagley Hall’s rich and pampered children are none too keen on this radical move, but the students see it as a great opportunity to get up to even more mayhem than usual. And for the pupils at the comprehensive school, many of them struggling with appalling home backgrounds, violence and lack of any parental support (problems which are not unknown to some of the Bagley Hall pupils) mixing with the posh school up the road is often a mixed blessing.
Jump!
- 600bladzijden
- 21 uur lezen
Recently widowed Etta Bancroft nurses an injured filly back to health. A village syndicate helps her, putting the filly into training and the horse is eventually entered in the Grand National. Meet the rich capricious owners, obsessive trainers, gallant stable lads and lasses and tough, brave jockeys ... and fall in love with the valiant Mrs Wilkinson as she gallops into your heart. -- Cover.
In Jilly Cooper’s latest, raciest novel, Rupert Campbell-Black takes centre stage in the cut-throat world of flat racing. Rupert is consumed by one obsession: that Love Rat, his adored grey horse, be proclaimed champion stallion. He longs to trounce Roberto’s Revenge, the stallion owned by his detested rival Cosmo Rannaldini, which means abandoning his racing empire at Penscombe and his darling wife Taggie, and chasing winners in the richest races worldwide, from Dubai to Los Angeles to Melbourne. Luckily, the fort at home is held by Rupert’s assistant Gav, a genius with horses, fancied by every stable lass, but damaged by alcoholism and a vile wife. When Gala, a grieving but ravishing Zimbabwean widow moves to Penscombe as carer for Rupert’s wayward father, it is not just Gav who is attracted to her: a returning Rupert finds himself dangerously tempted. Gala adores horses, and when she switches to working in the yard, her carer’s job is taken by a devastatingly handsome South African man who claims to be gay but seems far keener on caring for the angelic Taggie. And as increasingly sinister acts of sabotage strike at Penscombe, the game of musical loose boxes gathers apace . . .
