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Jilly Cooper was born in Hornchurch, Essex in 1937. Her father was in the army and when she was two they moved back to Ilkley where she was mostly brought up. She went to school at Godolphin in Salisbury where she became known to the staff as the Unholy Terror . In the mid-fifties her family moved to London.

Her writing career began in 1956 when she got a job as a cub reporter on the Middlesex Independent. She then moved to public relations and had a variety of jobs, ending up in book publishing. In 1961 she married publisher Leo Cooper, who comes from Long Preston, whom she had first met in Yorkshire in 1948. They have two children, Felix and Emily, and various cats and dogs. They live in an old house in the Cotswold area of Gloucestershire where they moved in 1982.

In 1998 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the British Book Awards. Jilly is now working on a novel about schools. Jilly Cooper's books have sold over 11 million copies in the UK alone. Her books have been translated into Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Greek, Japanese, Norwegian, Swedish, Polish, Russian, Finnish, Hungarian and Lithuanian as well as being published in The United States.

Jilly is now working on a novel about a Grandmother who escapes from her demanding family and rescues a racehorse. To aid her research, she in now the proud owner of a twelfth share in a race horse trained by Nicky Henderson, called Monty's Salvo.

Available Books by Jilly Cooper

How To Stay Married
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780593069363
RRP: $24.95

When Jilly Cooper, then a young Sunday Times journalist, was asked to write a book on marriage, she had been married to Leo Cooper for a mere seven years. Now they are celebrating their Golden Wedding, and although the institution of marriage has changed a great deal since this book was first written, much of Jilly's advice frank, fearless, often hilarious, but always wise still holds good...

Bella
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780552152501
RRP: $19.95

There was no doubt Bella Parkinson was a success: the most promising actress in London, bright, sexy - and hopelessly scatterbrained - she was taking the town by storm. Rupert Henriques, dashingly handsome and wealthy enough to buy her every theatre in London if she wanted it, couldn't wait to marry her . . . But Bella had a secret in her past - and the one man who knew it was about to come ...

Octavia
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780552152525
RRP: $19.95

As soon as Octavia caught a glimpse of Jeremy in the nightclub, she knew she just had to have him. It didn't matter that he'd just got engaged to an old school friend of hers, plump, good natured Gussie; he was looking at Octavia in the way that suggested bed rather than breakfast, and she was weak at the knees . . . But Octavia was used to men falling in love with her at a moment's ...

Retired Greyhounds
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781847971654
RRP: $38.95

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	Appassionata Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552143233 Abigail Rosen, nicknamed Appassionata, was the sexiest, most flamboyant violinist in classical music, but she was also the loneliest and the most exploited girl in the world. When a dramatic suicide attempt destroyed her violin career, she set her sights on the male-dominated heights of the conductor's rostrum. Given the chance to take over the Rutminster Symphony Orchestra, Abby is ecstatic...
	Appassionata Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552150545 Abigail Rosen, nicknamed Appassionata, was the sexiest, most flamboyant violinist in classical music, but she was also the loneliest and the most exploited girl in the world. When a dramatic suicide attempt destroyed her violin career, she set her sights on the male-dominated heights of the conductor's rostrum. Given the chance to take over the Rutminster Symphony Orchestra, Abby is ecstatic,...
	Appassionata Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780593038611 ...
	Bella Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552104272 ...
	Imogen Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552111492 ...
	Jump! Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552157803 Jilly Cooper returns to horses in a fabulously entertaining romp through the world of jump racing. Etta Bancroft u sweet, kind, still beautiful u adores racing and harbours a crush on one of its stars, the handsome, high-handed owner-trainer Rupert Campbell-Black. When her bullying husband dies, Etta's selfish, ambitious children drag her from her lovely Dorset home to live in a hideous moder...
	Pandora Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780593046982 Resist everything except temptation . . . Jilly Cooper's ritzy, riotous new novel takes the lid off the international art world - where successful young artists strut around like rock stars, where artful and crafty dealers indulge in every kind of gallery-pokery, and where the more beautiful the painting, the greater the backstabbing. No picture ever came more beautiful than Raphael's &#...
	Polo Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552135528 Ricky France-Lynch was 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 chequebook. 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. The polo set were ritzy, wild, and gloriously promiscuous. Perdita th...
	Polo Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552150576 In Jilly Cooper's third Rutshire chronicle we meet Ricky France-Lynch, who 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. The polo set we...
	Riders Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552124867 If you thought you knew what to expect of Jilly Cooper - bursts of restless romance, strings of domestic disasters, flip fun with the class system - 'Riders'' will come as a pleasurable surprise. A multi-stranded love story, it tells of the lives of a tight circle of star riders who move from show to show, united by raging ambition, bitter rivalry and the terror of failure. The super...
	Riders Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552150552 Set against the glorious Cotswold countryside and the playgrounds of the world, Jilly Cooper's Rutshire chronicles, 'Riders', 'Rivals', 'Polo', 'The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous', 'Apassionata' and 'Score!', offer an intoxicating blend of skulduggery, swooning romance, sexual adventure and hilarious high jinks. 'Riders', the first and s...
	Riders Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780743297004 Driven by a handsome and wealthy rival into a series of sexual conquests, Jake Lovell makes his way through the competitive arena of jockeys, showmen, and starlets before provoking an all-out feud with his nemesis at the Los Angeles Olympics. Reissue. 30,000 first printing....
	Rivals Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552132640 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 obsession to the passions and betrayals of men and women used to getting what they want....
	Rivals Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552150569 Into the cut-throat world of Corinium television come 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 close across the valley is Rupert Campbell-Black, divorced and as dissolute as ever, and now the Tory Minister for Sport. Declan only needs a few days at Corinium to realise that the ...
	Score! Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552145794 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 g...
	Score! Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552150590 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 ga...
	Score! Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780593045473 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. To achieve the latter, he enlists the help of his charismatic French godson, Tristan de Montigny, the hotte...
	The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780552138956 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 hi...
	Wicked! Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780593052990 At Bagley Hall, fashionable alma mater to many dashing and glamorous denizens of Larkshire, including Rupert Campbell-Black's children, trouble is afoot. The ambitious and fatally attractive headmaster, Hengist Brett-Taylor, hatches a plan to share the highly superior facilities of his school with the students at Larkminster Compehensive - known locally, as 'Larks'. His reasons for doi...
	Wicked!: A Tale Of Two Schools Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780593052983 Two schools - both in leafy Larkminster, but worlds apart. The irrepressible Jilly Cooper turns her brilliant pen to the explosive world of education. At Bagley Hall, fashionable alma mater to many dashing and glamorous denizens of Larkshire, including Rupert Campbell-Black's children, trouble is afoot. The ambitious and fatally attractive headmaster, Hengist Brett-Taylor, hatches a plan to s...

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