Riders
- 928 Seiten
- 33 Lesestunden
This steamy book blows the lid off international show jumping, a sport where the brave horses are almost human, and the humans behave like animals.
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Diese Serie spielt vor der Kulisse der prächtigen Cotswold-Landschaft und der glamourösesten Spielplätze der Welt und bietet eine berauschende Mischung aus Schmuggelei, schwärmerischer Romanze und sexuellem Abenteuer. Tauchen Sie ein in eine Welt voller urkomischer Streiche und fesselnder Charaktere, deren Leben sich mit dramatischem Flair verflechten. Jeder Teil bietet einen einzigartigen Einblick in das Leben des Adels und der High Society. Es ist eine fesselnde Mischung aus Gesellschaftskritik und leichter Eskapismus.
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Spieler
- 572 Seiten
- 21 Lesestunden
Jilly Cooper a nagysikerű Lovasok után a Cotswoldi Krónikák második regényében a televízió-csatornák kulisszái mögé kalauzol bennünket. Mi az, ami a néző számára örök titok marad? Sikerül-e Lord Baddinghamnek megtartania a Corinium Televízió jogát, vagy egy másik konzorcium kapja meg? A döntés évében Cotchester városában és környékén felpezsdül az élet – vagy inkább elszabadul a pokol? A Lovasokból már ismert Rupert Campbell-Black újra feltűnik a színen: frissen vált, kicsapongó életén mit sem változtatott és sportminiszteri feladatait igyekszik ellátni. Vajon ezúttal talál-e magának valakit, aki megszelídíti? Új szereplők is felbukkannak Cotswold vidékén: Cameron Cook, a fékezhetetlen „vadmacska” Amerikából érkezik, hogy produceri feladatokat lásson el, míg Decian O'Harát, az ír sztárriportert a BBC-től sikerült elhalásznia a cégnek. Találkozásuk nem zökkenőmentes, pedig a csatorna számára létkérdés, hogy ezt a két markáns személyiséget valahogyan összecsiszolják… A romantikus angol tájak és a brit főrendek bonyodalmas szerelmi viszonyainak leírása most sem hiányzik, számos ágyjelenettel tűzdelve.
Ricky France-Lynch was moody, macho, and magnificent.nbsp;nbsp;He had a large crumbling estate, a nine-goal polo handicap, and a beautiful wife who was fair game for anyone with a chequebook.nbsp;nbsp;He also had the adoration of fourteen-year-old Perdita MacLeod.nbsp;nbsp;Perdita couldn't wait to leave her dreary school and become a polo player.nbsp;nbsp;The polo set were ritzy, wild, and gloriously promiscuous.nbsp;nbsp;Perdita thought she'd get along with them very well. 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...
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 his beautiful mother, he was out of work, drinking too much, and desperately in debt. The solution came from Ferdie, his fat friend: if Lysander was so good at making husbands jealous, why shouldn't he get paid for it? Let loose among the neglected wives of the ritzy county of Rutshire, Lysander causes absolute havoc. But it is only when he meets Rannaldini, Rutshire's King Rat and a temperamental, fiendishly promiscuous international conductor, that the trouble really starts. The only unglamorous woman around Rannaldini was Kitty. Soom Lysander was convinced that Kitty must be rescued from Rannaldini at all costs, even if it means enlisting the help of the old blue-eyed havoc maker; Rupert Campbell-Black. This new Rutshire chronicle continues the high jinks of the rich and famous that have so lavishly entertained the countless readers of RIDERS and POLO.
Appassionata
- 891 Seiten
- 32 Lesestunden
They called her Appassionata, though her real name was Abigail Rosen. She was the sexiest, most flamboyant violinist on the music scene, adored by her fans and lusted after by men. She was also lonely and exploited. When a dramatic suicide attempt destroys her violin career, she sets out to conquer the conductors rostrum. Abigail is given the chance to take over the Rutminster Symphony Orchestra. Abby is ecstatic, not knowing that the RSO is up to its ears in debt, and is composed of the randiest group of musicians ever to bow a violin. Doing her best to pull this rabble into something resembling a real orchestra is going to take all she's got, as is resisting the encroachments of Viking, the fatally glamorous French horn player. Sexy Cooper silliness at its most delightfully entertaining.
Score!
- 800 Seiten
- 28 Lesestunden
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 gather at Rannaldini's haunted abbey for filming, it is inevitable that violent fewuds, abandoned bonking, temperamental screaming, and devious plotting will ensue. But although everyone "wished Rannaldini dead, no one actually thought the Maestro "would be murdered. Or that after the dreadful deed some very bizarre things would continue to occur. "SCORE! is Jilly Cooper's most thrilling novel to date.
Pandora
- 609 Seiten
- 22 Lesestunden
No picture ever came more beautiful than Raphael's Pandora. Discovered by a dashing young lieutenant in 1944, she had cast her spell over the Belvedon family for 50 years. Hanging in a turret of their lovely Cotswold house, Pandora witnessed Raymond's wife Galena both entertaining a string of lovers and giving birth to her four children. During a firework party, the painting was stolen, and the hunt to retrieve it takes the reader on a thrilling journey to Vienna, Geneva, Paris, New York, and London.
Wicked!
- 1120 Seiten
- 40 Lesestunden
Britain’s number one bestselling author turns her brilliant pen to the explosive world of education.Two schools, both in leafy Larkminster, but worlds apart, are turned upside down when the ambitious and fatally attractive headmaster of fashionable Bagley Hall, Hengist Brett-Taylor, hatches a plan to share the highly superior facilities of his school with the students at Larkminster Comprehensive. His reasons for doing so are purely financial but he is also encouraged by the opportunities the scheme gives him for frequent meetings with Janna Curtis, the young, pretty and enthusiastic new principal of the comprehensive school. The determined Janna has been drafted in to save what is a fast-sinking school from closure, and she will do anything to rescue her run-down, demoralized and cash-strapped school.The parents of Bagley Hall’s rich and pampered children are none too keen on this radical move, but the students see it as a great opportunity to get up to even more mayhem than usual. And for the pupils at the comprehensive school, many of them struggling with appalling home backgrounds, violence and lack of any parental support (problems which are not unknown to some of the Bagley Hall pupils) mixing with the posh school up the road is often a mixed blessing.
Jump!
- 600 Seiten
- 21 Lesestunden
Recently widowed Etta Bancroft nurses an injured filly back to health. A village syndicate helps her, putting the filly into training and the horse is eventually entered in the Grand National. Meet the rich capricious owners, obsessive trainers, gallant stable lads and lasses and tough, brave jockeys ... and fall in love with the valiant Mrs Wilkinson as she gallops into your heart. -- Cover.
Mount!
- 744 Seiten
- 27 Lesestunden
The glorious new novel from Jilly Cooper, featuring Rupert Campbell-Black and a raft of characters new and old, human and equine Everybody loves Jilly Cooper: 'Sex and horses: who could ask for more?' Sunday Telegraph 'Joyful and mischeivous' Jojo Moyes 'A delight from start to finish' Daily Mail 'Fun, sexy and unputdownable' Marian Keyes 'Escape into an alternative universe in which all is right with the world' Guardian 'Flawlessly entertaining' Helen Fielding
