Jilly Cooper

Known as L'Appassionata, her real name was Abigail Rosen and she was the sexiest, most flamboyant violinist on the music scene. She was also the loneliest girl in the world. When a suicide attempt destroyed her career as a violinist, Abby was determined to conquer the conductor's rostrum.

The classic bestseller from the author of Rivals, now a major series streaming on Disney+ No picture ever came more beautiful than Raphael's Pandora. Discovered by a dashing young lieutenant, Raymond Kelvedon in a Normandy Chateau in 1944, she had cast her spell over his family - all artists and dealers - for fifty years. Hanging in a turret of their lovely Cotswold house, Pandora witnessed Raymond's tempestuous wife Galena both entertaining a string of lovers, and giving birth to her four children: Jupiter, Alizarin, Jonathan and superbrat Sienna. Then an exquisite stranger rolls up, claiming to be a long-lost daughter of the family, setting the three Belvedon brothers at each other's throats. Accompanying her is her fatally glamorous boyfriend, whose very different agenda includes an unhealthy interest in the Raphael. During a fireworks party, the painting is stolen. The hunt to retrieve it takes the reader on a thrilling journey to Vienna, Geneva, Paris, New York and London. After a nail-biting court case and a record-smashing Old Masters sale at Sotheby's, passionate love triumphs and Pandora is restored to her rightful home. PRAISE FOR DAME JILLY COOPER 'Fun, sexy and unputdownable - a classic' Marian Keyes 'Flawlessly entertaining' Helen Fielding 'Joyful and mischievous' Jojo Moyes Jilly Cooper, Sunday Times bestseller, May 2024

The elite world of 1980s Polo is all about power, glamour, and money. Ricky France-Lynch, is moody, macho, and magnificent. He had a large crumbling estate, a nine-goal polo handicap, and a beautiful wife who was fair game for anyone with a cheque book. He also had the adoration of fourteen-year-old Perdita MacLeod. Perdita couldn't wait to leave her dreary school and become a polo player where the polo set were ritzy, wild, and gloriously promiscuous. 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.

'Sex and horses: who could ask for more?' Sunday Telegraph 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. 'Joyful and mischievous' Jojo Moyes 'Exhilarating, irresistible and one of our nation's most beloved novels' Jill Mansell 'Jilly Cooper is the funniest and the sharpest writer there is' Jenny Colgan 'Flawlessly entertaining' Helen Fielding

Into The Cut-Throat World Of Corinium Television Comes Declan O Hara, A Mega-Star Of Great Glamour And Integrity With A Radiant Feckless Wife, A Handsome Son And Two Ravishing Teenage Daughters. 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.

Set against the glamorous and treacherous world of filming Verdi's opera *Don Carlos*, the notorious conductor Sir Robert Rannaldini pursues his young stepdaughter Tabitha Campbell-Black while darker forces gather around him. The story unfolds as both a tale of scandalous desire and a murder mystery.

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. The trouble begins when he decides that the wife of Rannaldini, the world famous conductor, needs rescuing.

Two rival schools in Rutshire-elite Bagley Hall and struggling Larkminster Comprehensive-find their worlds colliding. Young headteacher Janna Curtis battles unruly pupils, low morale, and scarce resources as she fights to save Larkminster from collapse.