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Disney’s surprising stab at a bonkbuster is the most entertaining thing on TV

Oct 19, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Victoria Coren Mitchell |Jilly Cooper

Katherine Parkinson and Danny Dyer in Rivals Credit: Disney As I type these words, I’m looking at Amazon, where Jilly Cooper’s novel Rivals (released yesterday as an eight-part television series on Disney+) is at number 22 in the category “Erotic BDSM Fiction”. It’s also at number 27 in “Western & Frontier Romance” and number eight in “Sports Humour”. I’m not sure I fully understand Amazon’s categorisation system. BDSM stands for Bondage, Discipline and Sado-Masochism, or it did the last time...
Rivalové (2024) | Videa

Oct 17, 2024 | csfd.cz | Jilly Cooper

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Jilly Cooper: what happened to all the bonking?

Oct 6, 2024 | theknowledge.com | Jilly Cooper

Author Jilly Cooper at home in Putney in 1978. Arthur Sidey/Mirrorpix/GettyWhen I moved from London to the West Country with my late husband in the 1980s, says Jilly Cooper in Vogue, I found sex as prolific outside of marriage as in it. Everywhere I looked, people seemed to be fornicating and philandering. I met a man who, when he got married for a fourth time, asked all three of his ex-wives to sleep with him as a wedding present.
A Thousand Feasts By Nigel Slater

Sep 30, 2024 | thegoodwebguide.co.uk | Nigel Slater |Jilly Cooper |Evie Wyld |Becky Ladenburg

A book by one of Britain’s greatest cookery writers that doesn’t contain a single recipe. An odd premise? Perhaps. But spare a thought for the writer in question. Maybe this wise and thoughtful man and his wise and thoughtful publishers believe that he has sated our hunger for his recipes. He has penned a weekly food column for The Observer for 30 years, written 10 cookbooks and presented several TV series. Anybody can access the ravishing recipes on his beautiful website any time of night or day.
Jilly Cooper: “Today, There Seems To Be Far Less Bonking”

Sep 25, 2024 | vogue.co.uk | Jilly Cooper

When I moved from London to the West Country in the ’80s with my late husband, Leo, and my children, Felix and Emily, I found sex as prolific outside of marriage as in. Everywhere I looked people seemed to be committing both adultery and fornication – even the animals in the fields seemed to be at it, and not just the rabbits. I was amazed to meet a glamorous peer who, when he got married for a fourth time, asked all of his three ex-wives to sleep with him as a wedding present.
How Friday night running became more popular than going down to the pub

Jun 8, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Boudicca Fox-Leonard |Jilly Cooper

It's even permeating love lives: running is the top pastime listed on Tinder, the original swiping dating app Credit: Getty When Michelle Welling moved to London from California ten years ago she joined a run club to help her make new friends.
‘I’ve read Jilly Cooper’s Riders 60 times’: The people who use repetition to enrich their lives

May 19, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Flora Bowen |Jilly Cooper

Every day, just past noon, Clare Gleave prepares an omelette. It is a simple task: whisking eggs, adding spinach and cheese, with a small salad on the side. An omelette maker ensures perfect delivery – the same lunch, day in, day out. Gleave, 44, is not obsessive, or strange (‘Well, at least, I don’t think so’). In a complicated and busy life – she is a businesswoman and mother of three young boys – she simply wants some order. ‘It’s almost like a tick-box exercise.
10 Romantic Books To Give On Valentine’s Day

May 6, 2024 | thegoodwebguide.co.uk | Jilly Cooper |Nancy Alsop

Pride & Prejudice If you’d like to give something more original than chocolates and flowers this Valentine’s Day (though do note, they will never go amiss), why not treat your beloved to a book that you love? The beauty is, they will last forever, inspire your paramour’s imagination and you will always be indelibly associated with that particular writer in their minds. If, however, a story personal to you doesn’t spring to mind, there are so many books about love to choose from.
The best radio programmes and moments from the last decade

Jan 26, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Charlotte Runcie |Jilly Cooper

The top 12 radio moments from the last decade Credit: Francesco Carta fotografo Here’s a small selection of some of the best radio programmes and moments from the last decade.
Jilly Cooper ‘bowled over’ at damehood in New Year Honours

Dec 29, 2023 | standard.co.uk | Jilly Cooper |Charlotte McLaughlin

Author Jilly Cooper, 86, has been honoured for services to literature and charity (Aaron Chown/PA)PA ArchiveAuthor Jilly Cooper said she is “incredibly bowled over” after being given a damehood in the New Year Honours list. The 86-year-old author and journalist of steamy fiction was honoured for services to literature and to charity.