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Dame Jilly Cooper, sharp-eyed social observer and author of Riders dubbed ‘Queen of the Bonkbusters’
06 Oct 2025 10:41 GMT
… chaos, then as the author of romantic novellas, and finally as … Joanna Trollope – for the series, of which the last, Tackle!, was published … experienced older men.
The books were fruitily descriptive, full … to reviewers of one book, because those who received …
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Why is everyone reading these hard-to-find British war novels?
25 Aug 2025 22:50 GMT
… oddly embarrassed” about this.
The books, published between 1990 and 2013, follow … long creative lull for their author, who early in her … I would die to publish that author. And she was certainly … vein of Joanna Trollope’s Aga sagas. “Howard’s novels can be …
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Things to do in Longmont Thursday, Aug. 7: First Thursdays Book Group meeting at Longmont Library
07 Aug 2025 14:24 GMT
… Longmont. Longmont Library First Thursday Book Club for adults. Free, … three of Austen’s novels. Each book will be available a … month before the book discussion at the front … This month’s book is “Sense and Sensibility,” by Joanna Trollope. Free, highplains …
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‘Jilly Cooper’s manners were impeccable. Every time I wrote anything about her over the years, a handwritten card arrived days later, thanking me warmly’
11 Oct 2025 15:13 GMT
… a cultured author whose modesty and humour lit up her novels
Portrait … at 16:00
It was Joanna Trollope who pointed out just how …
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Have you read these modern Regency era novels"
02 May 2024 10:52 GMT
… years, Jane Austen's novels have charmed readers with their … .
'Sense & Sensibility'
Joanna Trollope's Sense & Sensibility … heart of this adaptation.
The novel celebrates Indian culture and Bollywood …
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What If Authors Covered Books Like Musicians Cover Songs?
03 Aug 2023 12:17 GMT
… The Count of Monte Cristo, Joanna Trollope reworked Austen’s Sense and … written several excellent sci-fi novels, as well as the … the first season of Bad Author Book Club, I have a mile … , Gentleman, the famously digressive novel by Laurence Sterne. And yes …
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Summer reading 2023: Our pick of the best books for the beach
14 Jul 2023 10:40 GMT
… Sleet, Hannah Rothschild’s second novel about the housing woes of … Jilly Cooper by way of Joanna Trollope with a bit of Nancy …
by Paul A Mendelson
The Book Guild, £8.99
To Kentucky … to ratchet up. As the book races along, it becomes a …
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Should women really hold out for Mr Perfect? As author Joanna Trollope says she's given up on men
14 Oct 2020 21:24 GMT
… ’t exist outside of romantic novels and our fantasies, and by … to overlook other (to quote novelist Joanna Trollope) ‘substandard’ characteristics. Turns out my …
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Why I've finally given up on men: JOANNA TROLLOPE reveals she'll never settle down again
11 Oct 2020 21:55 GMT
… West London. And yet Joanna Trollope, twice married but single for … life women, Trollope published her 22nd contemporary novel this year. …
Their friend and fellow author Jilly Cooper described them … with elderly parents. The book revolves around Monica and …
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David Potter, colourful merchant banker
17 Sep 2025 23:57 GMT
… sight of the future bestselling author Joanna Trollope cycling through the town. They …
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