The ‘Rivals’ author, whose death was announced yesterday, helped us talk more openly about sex
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The ‘Rivals’ author, whose death was announced yesterday, helped us talk more openly about sex
The ‘Rivals’ author, whose death was announced yesterday, helped us talk more openly about sex
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Jilly Cooper dies aged 88

‘Absolutely divine!’ How Jilly Cooper changed the world – one bonkbuster at a time

Jilly Cooper, author of Rivals and Riders, dies aged 88

Dame Jilly Cooper obituary

In Jilly Cooper Super land, almost all sex was ‘fun fun fun’

Dame Jilly Cooper: Undisputed queen of the joyous British bonkbuster

Jilly Cooper, Widely Popular Romance Novelist, Is Dead at 88

Tributes pour in from Rivals cast in honour of Dame Jilly Cooper

Jilly Cooper, known for her novels filled with sex, snobbery and fun, dies at 88

How Dame Jilly Cooper delighted fans with cameo appearance in Rivals

The Rivals author was famed for her raunchy romance novels, selling more than 12million books in her career.

Her romances were so intelligent, raunchy and outrageously readable that she created her own category, bewitching generations of…

The author was known for her steamy novels, which focused on scandal and adultery in upper class society

The author of 18 ‘bonkbuster’ novels including Riders, Rivals and Bella has died following a fall

Author whose bestselling novels, including Riders and Rivals, were set deep in an English countryside where the natives pursued…

As the former editor of the ‘Erotic Review’, Rowan Pelling explains why Jilly Cooper’s champagne-fuelled, hedonistic spirit and…