[Romance Book] ✓ Jilly Cooper: Rivals and Riders (Rutshire Chronicles #1 \u0026 #2) PDF by Jilly Cooper ½ eBook or Kindle ePUB free

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Jilly Cooper OBE born February 21 1937 is an English author She started her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non fiction before writing several romance novels the first of which appeared in 1975 She is most famous for writing the six blockbuster novels the Rutshire Chronicles 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 Riders and Rivals RidersRiders 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. Jilly cooper's latest book RivalsInto 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 Rivals and Riders Rutshire Chronicles 1 u0026 2 this is a 2 part book The first is focused on show jumping while the other is on TV production house and politics surrounding it There isn t much linkage between the two except for one or two characters and some bits The 4 stars is for the firt part on riders Very few fictiom writers create so much depth of the sport while also delving on all the drama scandal and complications of famous people I thoroughly enjoyed reading about the world of show jumping specifically I found the race scenes created suitable tension and grip on the readers so it was well written I liked most of the characters and their storylines as well as their clashes it evoked the same emotion in me that it would have had I known a real Rupert Campbell Black or Billy Loyed or Jake Romance She may be British like myself and writing about things that are a world away from a lot of her readers but these books are enthralling Romance Love this seriesRead this book years ago and just finished re reading it Loved it from start to finish can t wait to re read the rest of the series Romance I loved this book Pure escapism Romance