Book description
Set against the glorious Cotswold countryside and the playgrounds
of the world, Jilly Cooper's Rutshire Chronicles offer an
intoxicating blend of skulduggery, swooning romance, sexual
adventure and hilarious high jinks.
This special 2-for-1 collection features two of these classic
titles: Riders and Rivals.
Riders
Riders takes the lid off international showjumping, a sport where
the brave horses are almost human, but the humans behave like animals.
The brooding hero, gypsy Jake Lovell, under whose magic hands the
most difficult horse or woman becomes biddable, is driven to the top
by his loathing of the beautiful bounder and darling of the show ring,
Rupert Campbell-Black. Having filched each other's horses, and fought
and fornicated their way around the capitals of Europe, the feud
between the two men finally erupts with devastating consequences
during the Los Angeles Olympics.
Rivals
Into the cut-throat world of Corinium television comes Declan
O'Hara, a mega-star of great glamour and integrity. Living rather too
closely across the valley is Rupert Campbell-Black, divorced and as
dissolute as ever, and now the Tory Minister for Sport.
Declan needs only a few days at Corinium to realise that the
Managing Director, Lord Baddingham, is a crook who has recruited him
merely to help retain the franchise for Corinium. Baddingham has also
enticed Cameron Cook, a gorgeous but domineering woman executive, to
produce Declan's programme. Declan and Cameron detest each other,
provoking a storm of controversy into which Rupert plunges with his
usual abandon.
As a rival group emerges to pitch for the franchise, reputations
ripen and decline, true love blossoms and burns, marriages are made
and shattered, and sex raises its (delicious) head at almost every
throw as, in bed and boardroom, the race is on to capture the Cotswold Crown.
Jilly Cooper is a journalist, author and media superstar. The
author of many number one bestselling novels, she lives in
Gloucestershire with her husband Leo, her rescue greyhound Feather and
her black cat Feral.
She was appointed OBE in 2004 for services to literature, and in
2009 was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of
Gloucestershire for her contribution to literature and services to the County.
