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Rutshire Chronicles Books in Order

by Jilly CooperLiterature & Fiction

10 books from Riders (1985) to Mount! (2016). Rated 4.5 across 440 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. Riders

    Book 1 1985 4.7 (59)

    The brooding hero, gypsy Jake Lovell, under whose magic hands the most difficult horse or woman becomes biddable, is driven to the top by his loathing of the darling of the show ring, Rupert Campbell-Black.

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  2. Rivals

    Book 2 2018 4.6 (160)

    Into the cut-throat world of Corinium television comes mega-star Declan O'Hara. Declan soon realises that the Managing Director, Lord Baddingham, has recruited him merely to help retain the franchise for Corinium.

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  3. Polo

    Book 3 2018 4.7 (50)

    Ricky France-Lynch had a large crumbling estate, a nine-goal polo handicap, and a beautiful wife who was fair game for anyone with a cheque book.

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  4. The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous

    Book 4 2018 4.2 (29)

    Lysander Hawkley combined breathtaking good looks with the kindest of hearts. He couldn't pass a neglected wife without rushing to the rescue which invariably led to ecstatic bonking, which didn't please their erring husbands one bit.

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  5. Appassionata

    Book 5 2018 4.3 (21)

    Effervescent as champagne, Jilly Cooper's novel brings back old favourites like Rupert and Taggie Campbell-Black. Abigail Rosen, nicknamed Appassionata, was the sexiest, most flamboyant violinist in classical music, but she was also the…

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  6. Score!

    Book 6 2018 4.3 (20)

    Sir Robert Rannaldini, the most successful but detested conductor in the world, had two ambitions: to seduce his ravishing nineteen-year-old stepdaughter Tabitha Campbell-Black, and to put his mark on musical history by making the…

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  7. Pandora

    Book 7 2018 4.7 (7)

    Jilly Cooper returns with love, high living, intrigue and a missing painting. No picture ever came more beautiful than Raphael's Pandora.

    Kindle Paperback Audiobook

  8. Wicked

    Book 8 2018 4.2 (18)

    Two schools - both in leafy Larkshire, but worlds apart. The incomparable Jilly Cooper turns her brilliant pen to the explosive world of education.

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  9. Jump!

    Book 9 2010 4.2 (26)

    Following the death of her bullying husband, Etta Bancroft's selfish children move her to a village in the Cotswolds. One night she discovers a filly, left to die in the snow.

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  10. Mount!

    Book 10 2016 by Jilly Cooper OBE 4.5 (50)

    In Jilly Cooper’s latest, raciest novel, Rupert Campbell-Black takes centre stage in the cut-throat world of flat racing. Rupert is consumed by one obsession: that Love Rat, his adored grey horse, be proclaimed champion stallion.

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Adapted for screen

  • Rivals TV series · Disney+ · 2024– · 2 seasons

About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Rutshire Chronicles is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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