And given its racy storylines, producers of the Disney+ show must have been left in a panic when Dame Jilly Cooper asked them to find roles for her young granddaughters in the adaptation of her ...

It was, of course, Riders by Dame Jilly Cooper, the first in the Rutshire Chronicles, which has sold over one million copies in the UK since its publication in 1985. Now, the second novel in the ...

Eagle-eyed fans have spotted the “perfect moment” Jilly Cooper makes her long-awaited cameo in Rivals. The 87-year-old author wrote the bonkbuster in 1988, which focuses on the cutthroat world ...

Jilly Cooper has defended the casting of Alex Hassell as the leading man in Disney’s Rivals - despite him looking nothing like the “blond and beautiful” man she described in her books.

Above all, it was for admirers of the “Queen of the Bonkbusters”, Jilly Cooper. Crucially, bonking didn’t involve side-helpings of shame and bestselling bonkbusters featured unabashedly ...

Jilly Cooper, 87, has written raunchy novels for decades. Adapting her 1988 book “Rivals” for the streaming age meant tweaking some details. Jilly Cooper at her home near Stroud, England.Credit ...

After years of communication via her agent, Cooper finally said yes. “I was told, ‘Jilly wants to give you the rights and said because your letter was so well-written, you should write the ...

Rivals by Jilly Cooper isn’t just a book to me, it’s home. I’m very excited that Disney+ is taking on my favourite novel and bringing it to new viewers and potential readers. Jilly Cooper and her ...

It’s perhaps the reason we are all so hotly anticipating the release of Rivals by Dame Jilly Cooper on Disney+. If it were published today, I don’t see some of Dame Jilly’s stickier ...

Jilly Cooper’s reputation as the doyenne of “bonkbusters” is utterly deserved – she wears the crown proudly, busting apart the British class system with copious amounts of heavenly ...

In the 1980s, when author Jilly Cooper and her family moved a couple hours outside of London to the upscale rural enclave known as the Cotswolds, she soon learned the local pastime was sex.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The second novel in Jilly Cooper’s legendarily filthy Rutshire Chronicles, Rivals (1988) doesn’t seem ...