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London Tide's Bella Maclean on making her National debut, Sex Education and starring in Jilly Cooper's Rivals

The actor on how her family has inspired her ‘feisty and zesty’ character in this stage adaptation of Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend

Evening Standard

Liz Truss resignation honours list branded ‘insult to people in Scotland’

Liz Truss’s long-awaited resignation honours list has been branded an “insult to people in Scotland”...

The National (Scotland)

Jilly Cooper is made a dame in new year honours list

Bestselling author and journalist is ‘incredibly bowled over’ to receive DBE

The Guardian - UK

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New year honours 2024: awards for Shirley Bassey, Mary Earps and Michael Eavis

Author Jilly Cooper and actor Emilia Clarke also honoured

The Guardian - UK

More than 1000 recognised in New Year Honours list

MORE than 1000 people have been recognised in this year’s New Year Honours list, ranging from politicians, musicians and actors to senior…

The National (Scotland)

New Year Honours 2024: All the celebrities being honoured, from Shirley Bassey to Paul Hollywood

Jilly Cooper, Michael Eavis and Ridley Scott are also among those honoured

The Independent UK

The ultimate summer reading list: 15 novels about love, lust and sex to devour

From classic romance to steamy romps to lust and power, your beach reads are sorted courtesy of Guardian Australia’s staff and critics

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2024 TV preview: the best dramas available to stream in the UK soon

Our 2024 preview looks at exciting new dramas on Netflix, Disney Plus, Prime Video, Paramount Plus, ITVX and Apple TV Plus which will get the UK hooked in the year ahead.

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Sunak denies he is ‘tetchy’ under pressure amid Tory infighting over immigration

PM dismisses dissent among his MPs over his Rwanda bill as ‘debating society’ behaviour

The Guardian - UK

Five of the best romance books of 2023

A bittersweet tale of young love, hotly awaited American fantasy, Jilly Cooper’s latest romp and more

The Guardian - UK

The Great Climate Fight review – Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall goes ‘not strictly legal’

Kevin McCloud is undercover, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall does some flyposting and Mary Portas sends a Jilly Cooper book to the PM. This government-baiting show is impressively angry TV

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: why Mary Portas gave Rishi Sunak a Jilly Cooper book

Portas joins Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Kevin McCloud in getting creative to fight the climate crisis. Plus: Joan Collins meets Louis Theroux. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Sweetheart necklines bring all the drama to the festive season

These dresses might seem a bit retro, but the Jilly Cooper heroine vibe makes it the ultimate party outfit

The Guardian - UK

Tackle! review – Jilly Cooper takes on the beautiful game

The octogenarian writer brings her unique brand of sexy silliness to the story of a League One football team, with mixed results

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‘Sex, puns and labradors’: How Olivia Laing fell for Jilly Cooper’s bonkbusters

Sneaking a teenage peak at her stepmother’s copies of Riders and Rivals opened the door to a world of glamour and romance for the author of Crudo and The Lonely City

Evening Standard

Footballers 'deserve every penny' says Jilly Cooper after writing football romp

The novelist entertained the crowd with bawdy jokes at her book launch

The Guardian - UK

Bonk hard and start a business! 10 life lessons I learned from Jilly Cooper

The queen of bonkbusters is taking everyone back to Rutshire with her new book, Tackle! You won’t learn much about football – but you will learn a lot about horses

The Independent UK

Jilly Cooper thinks very little of modern men, including ‘anti-glamour’ Stanley Tucci

Queen of the bonkbuster is known for her preference for stereotypically ‘macho’ men

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Evening Standard

Sexist and silly? Jilly Cooper was pure genius

Bawdy? Trivial? Parochial? On the contrary, the late Jilly Cooper's bonkbusters were full of humanity, says Martha Alexander

The Independent UK

Jilly Cooper explains why modern men are not attractive

Queen of the bonkbuster is known for her preference for stereotypically ‘macho’ men

The Guardian - UK

Jilly Cooper: ‘The secret to a happy marriage is creaking bed springs – from laughter’

The novelist on her first book set in the world of football, having Rishi Sunak as a fan and the secret to writing good sex

The Independent UK

Jilly Cooper, 86, says she’s ‘forgotten’ how to write sex scenes

Novelist is known for her steamy output

The Conversation

Shopping, showjumping and a notorious goldfish sex scene: the bonkers world of the bonkbuster

In May 2023, Conservative British weekly magazine The Spectator ran a piece revealing the “guilty pleasures” of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Allegedly, he likes listening to the music of Michael Bublé, watching Emily in Paris – and reading the novels of Jilly Cooper.

The Independent UK

Aidan Turner on his #MeToo tennis drama, Jilly Cooper, and being a sex symbol: ‘I think people want me to feel objectified – but I don’t’

The ‘Poldark’ star talks to Jessie Thompson about objectification, bringing Rutshire to life, juggling work and family, and playing a tennis coach accused of inappropriate behaviour

The Guardian - UK

‘I have overwhelming impostor syndrome’: TV judge Rob Rinder on empathy, shame and survival

He grew up gay in a working-class community, before becoming a criminal barrister, then moving into television. Now he has written his first novel

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