Keep wondering when - or if - the producer of #BBC #WomansHour will splice in the twenty seconds* of #DeadAir that followed #JennyMurray asking the late #JillyCooper for her reaction to her husband Leo having affairs

*it felt like 20 minutes at the time

Poster von Rivals Season 2 mit Männer- und Frauenfüßen zwischen Laken und den für Jilly Cooper so typischen roten High Heels

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Queen celebrates Jilly Cooper at star-studded London memorial service Memorial service at Southwark Cathedral honours author who saw funerals as the ultimate test of social standing

Check this out! UK Queen + broad retinue gather to celebrate #JillyCooper!
Famous for sex-writing, they invented the literary term "bonkbuster" partly for her sake!
Let your fantasies FLOW down on page, boys & girls, you can make it big (at least in UK; yeah, US too) www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...

Day 17 - My Guilty Pleasure Book.

The man who made husbands jealous by #JillyCooper.
All the usual preposterous poshoes riding horses and each other, but less callousness than usual.

📚💙 #BookSky #Books #30DayBookChallenge #Readers

Notebook: Mark Oakley Mark Oakley on a recent visit to Denver in Colorado, a city that lies one mile above sea level, and officiating at the funeral of Dame Jilly Cooper

Mark Oakley on a recent visit to Denver in Colorado, a city that lies one mile above sea level, and officiating at the funeral of Dame #JillyCooper

Dame Jilly Cooper's heartbreaking cause of death revealed that left family shocked Riders author Jilly Cooper died unexpectedly at the age of 88 after a fall at home with her children

Author Jilly Cooper's Cause of Death Revealed: Accidental Fall Led to Traumatic Injury #JillyCooper #AccidentalDeath

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Dame Jilly Cooper's death caused by head injury, says coroner The popular author suffered the injury during a fall at her rural home, an inquest was told.

BBC News - Dame #JillyCooper 's death caused by head injury, says coroner - BBC News
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Pick up a copy of this week's #OKmagazine and learn about the raunchy writers who inspire Melanie Blake’s #bonkbuster thrillers!

#author #books #publicity #VengefulWomen #RuthlessWomen #GuiltyWomen #FalconBay #JillyCooper #JackieCollins #ShirleyConran #interview #bookpr

Sexual Violence in Rivals: Updating the Bonkbuster for a post-#MeToo Television Audience: PART TWO by Julie Anne Taddeo Warning: This article is divided into two parts, but both have detailed descriptions of sexual violence in the book and TV series, Rivals. Author’s Note: This essay …

Check out Part 2 of my blog post on Hulu's #Rivals, the #bonkbuster & #sexualviolence on TV post-#metoo for @wfthn.bsky.social #1980s #JillyCooper

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Today's doodle prompt is rivals

I had to go with the wonderful recently departed Jilly Cooper

I absolutely loved watching Rivals recently on the telly, and always thought she just seemed like the nicest person

#dailydoodles #,inktober #inktober2025 #rivals #itwasacceptableinthe80s #jillycooper

Angela Tilby: God is in the novels of Jilly Cooper ‘Dame Jilly’s writings seem to me to reflect the Reformation suspicion of self and motive’

"Dame Jilly’s writings seem to me to reflect the Reformation suspicion of self and motive, along with the sober recognition that we are all sinners, however noble our ideals" #jillycooper

Sexual Violence in Rivals: Updating the Bonkbuster for a post-#MeToo Television Audience: PART TWO by Julie Anne Taddeo Warning: This article is divided into two parts, but both have detailed descriptions of sexual violence in the book and TV series, Rivals. Author’s Note: This essay …

Love a good #bonkbuster but not its outdated treatment of sexual violence? Check out Part 2 of my blog post on #JillyCooper & Hulu's #Rivals #metoo for Women's Film & Television Network
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BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, Stolen phones and Jilly Cooper Jeremy discusses stolen phones, Jilly Cooper, crashing into deer, and love locks.

Listen to me paying tribute to the great goddess of sauce, #JillyCooper, on @bbcradio2bot.bsky.social

#Bonkbuster

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Our Next Event - Friends of Redland Library - Researching your Family History Our next Redland Library event is on Thursday 9th October. During 'Banned Books Week' (5-11 Oct), it's a Desert Island Books on Banned Books.

Looking forward to this tonight @redlandlibevents.bsky.social Which banned books? Lady Chatterley’s Lover? (Who else thinks #jillycooper wrote better sex scenes than DH Lawrence #heateddebate friendsofredlandlibrary.org.uk/our-next-eve...

Did market research save Jilly Cooper's career? - AMSR Did market research save Jilly Cooper's career? AMSR Stories - When the Sunday Times was considering letting Jilly Cooper go, market research proved her value and she kept her job, as the AMSR shows.

Farewell then Jilly Cooper and thanks for all the fun.

Head to the #archive to see how Market Research saved Jilly's job at the #SundayTimes. 

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#History #Insights #jillycooper #mrx #marketresearch #careers

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I've read every Jilly Cooper book - these are the seven best Not sure where to start with the beloved author's work? Our superfan picks her favourite Jilly Coopers

I've never read one, but enjoyed Rivals on TV.

Not really into horses or arrogant men (though I appear to be magnetic to one of those categories 🙄), but might be worth it for the plots.

Any thoughts?

#JillyCooper

Just paid tribute to goddess of sauce #JillyCooper with new generation #QueenoftheBonkbusters #MelanieBlake on @bbcradio2bot.bsky.social

#bonkbuster

#News Jilly Cooper has died at 88 after a fall at home. The bestselling author popularized the “bonkbuster,” including 1996’s Appassionata about a wayward orchestra. Friends and fans remember her wit and warmth. Share a favorite Cooper read. #Books #JillyCooper

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Jilly Cooper, Bestselling Author of the Rutshire Chronicles, Dead at 88 - Book Notification Bestselling novelist Jilly Cooper, best known for the Rutshire Chronicles series has passed away unexpectedly. She was 88 years old.

The literary world lost another great yesterday, as #JillyCooper passed away unexpectedly on October 5th. She was 88 years old.

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Best-selling British author Dame #JillyCooper famed for her steamy romps, many that made it to the screen passes away aged 88 after a fall.

Todays news report highlighted Dame Jilly's achievements.

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The world is a duller place without the witty Jilly Cooper, last of the OG bonkbuster queens. So glad she got to bask in the recent success of the excellent TV adaptation of "Rivals".

#jillycooper

‘Are you good in bed?’ Jilly Cooper on horses, lefties and which fictional character she would like to sleep with As her much-loved story Rivals is turned into a lavish Disney+ production, the author answers questions from Observer readers and famous fans including David Tennant, Caitlin Moran and Gillian Anderso...

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Dead at 88. This from Guardian last year, part profile/part Q.s from readers and many well-known fans

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Fun but mentions

⚪ Works influenced her (Proust: "The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost")

⚪ Animals in War Museum

Ah, Jilly, you gave teenage me so much entertainment with your books and their great sense of fun. 💐
RIP #JillyCooper

Farewell #JillyCooper, from one dog lover to another. All my memories of you are kind ones. If you've ever wanted to know where Jilly got the inspiration to name one of her most famous characters, read on..... open.substack.com/pub/lucindah...

Queen leads tributes to 'wonderfully witty friend' Dame Jilly Cooper Rivals author died aged 88 after a fall, with Queen wishing her a

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... so sad to hear the news about #JillyCooper my favorite author, just finished reading-reading Pandora. Wonderful lady once wrote to her and she replied, so kind.

The books with Rannaldini were also wild. I remember him whipping Hermione to make her trot round the stable wearing nothing but a pair of riding boots. And role playing a pervy old priest checking a girl’s virginity

I read all of these at school which explains a lot lmao

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Rupert <swoon>

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