26-548: Riders can refer to Arts, entertainment, media [ edit ] Riders (novel) , a book by Jilly Cooper Riders (1993 film) , a British film based on the book Steal (film) , a 2002 American action film also called Riders Videogames [ edit ] Sonic Riders , a 2006 racing video game from the Sonic the Hedgehog series Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity ,
52-626: A 2008 racing video game from the Sonic the Hedgehog series Sonic Free Riders , a 2010 racing video game from the Sonic the Hedgehog series The Riders, collective refers to three of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in NetHack , serving as the game's final bosses. Sports [ edit ] Saskatchewan Roughriders (the 'Riders), a Canadian football team from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Ottawa Rough Riders (the 'Riders),
78-458: A chance meeting at a dinner party. The editor of The Sunday Times Magazine , Godfrey Smith, asked her to write a feature about her experiences. This led to a column in which Cooper wrote about marriage , sex and housework . That column ran from 1969 to 1982, when she moved to The Mail on Sunday , where she worked for another five years. Cooper's first column led to the publication of her first book, How to Stay Married , in 1969, and which
104-882: A defunct Canadian football team from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Leicester Riders , a British basketball team from Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK Frisco RoughRiders , an American Minor League Baseball team from Frisco, Texas, USA Other uses [ edit ] "Riders", a group of police officers involved in misconduct in Oakland, California; see Allen v. City of Oakland See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "Riders" , "Riderses" , "Riderss" , or "Rider's" on Misplaced Pages. All pages with titles beginning with Riders All pages with titles containing Riders Ride (disambiguation) Rider (disambiguation) Ryder (disambiguation) The Ride (disambiguation) The Rider (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
130-715: A minor stroke. Cooper has stated that she is a football fan, and supported Leeds United when she lived in Yorkshire. She is also a supporter of the Conservative Party . Cooper was also in favour of the Iraq War . Cooper is an animal lover and has owned many dogs, in particular, retired greyhounds including Feather and Bluebell. Cooper was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in
156-554: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Riders (novel) Riders is a 1985 novel written by the English author Jilly Cooper . It is the first of a series of romance novels known as the Rutshire Chronicles , which are set in the fictional English county of Rutshire. The story focuses on the lives of a group of top show jumping stars and follows
182-469: Is one of Cooper's "name" books, which each bear a female character's name, and has been made into a television movie. It is set in Britain during the 1970s. The broadcast ITV adaptation was produced with a screenplay which was written by Jonathan Harvey . One character was modelled on George Humphreys, a Welshman with whom Cooper had an affair in the late 1950s. The Times noted that Cooper avoids
208-550: Is the greater horseman and, perhaps more importantly, the greater lover. Along the way, Cooper gives us a peek into the lives of this close-knit community of tops riders, their horses, grooms and families. We see the highs and lows of life in the equestrian world, but who will eventually come out on top in the final showdown at the Los Angeles Olympics . When first published in 1985 the book's cover, somewhat controversially, depicted “a man’s hand resting intimately on
234-473: Is the model for Rupert Campbell-Black 's. Both houses are very old, although his is larger; her house overlooks a valley called Toadsmoor, while his overlooks a valley called the Frogsmore. She also draws on her love of animals: dogs and horses feature heavily in her books. Woods, hills, fields, pastures and rivers feature frequently. In 1975, Cooper published her first work of romantic fiction, Emily . It
260-484: The 2004 Birthday Honours for services to literature, Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to literature and charity, and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to literature and charity. On 13 November 2009 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Gloucestershire at
286-471: The Rutshire Chronicles is set in a glamorous and wealthy milieu , such as show jumping or classical music . These aspects are contrasted with details of the characters' domestic lives, which are often far from glamorous. Her novel Pandora is not one of the Rutshire Chronicles, but does feature a few characters from the series, and is very similar in style and content. Wicked! follows
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#1732765602026312-724: The article's talk page . Jilly Cooper Dame Jilly Cooper , DBE (born Jill Sallitt ; 21 February 1937) is an English author. She began her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non-fiction before writing several romance novels , the first of which appeared in 1975. Cooper is most famous for writing the Rutshire Chronicles . Jill Sallitt was born in Hornchurch , Essex, England on 21 February 1937, to Mary Elaine (née Whincup) and Brigadier W. B. Sallitt, OBE. She grew up in Ilkley and Surrey , and
338-408: The fortunes of a group of fame and money hungry show jumping stars. Jake Lovell, the gypsy-born hero of the novel, is a brilliant horseman desperately seeking revenge for years of bullying at the hands of the glamorous but brutish aristocrat Rupert Campbell-Black . With the help of his rich debutante wife, Tory Maxwell, he is able to set himself up his own yard and begins building a reputation on
364-412: The same approach, including characters from previous novels and introducing new characters who are relatives, friends or rivals of existing characters. It is set in the fictional county of Larkshire, which borders her other fictional county, Rutshire. Her novel Jump! was released in 2010. It features characters from the Rutshire Chronicles in the world of National Hunt steeplechase racing , and tells
390-409: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Riders . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Riders&oldid=1257233742 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
416-453: The seat of a woman’s jodhpurs.” The 2015 30th anniversary edition's toned-down cover artwork moved the male hand from where it was firmly gripping the female rider's bottom to a much higher position nearer to her hip, generating some backlash from fans. This article about a romance novel of the 1980s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See guidelines for writing about novels . Further suggestions might be found on
442-458: The show-jumping circuit. Meanwhile, Rupert is content living the jet-set lifestyle with best friend Billy Lloyd-Foxe, plus a string of beautiful women, horses and dogs. Meeting his beautiful wife, Helen Macaulay, does little to curb his promiscuity and he eventually falls back into a life of parties, alcohol, and casual sex. When Jake and Rupert meet again for the first time since school, old rivalries are reawakened as they fight it out to prove who
468-409: The traditional romantic convention in which the heroine remains a virgin until the last page. Elizabeth Grey found the jokes annoying but still funny, and confessed to falling in love with the character of Octavia. Cooper's best-known works are her Rutshire novels. The first was Riders (1985), an international bestseller, and the first volume of Rutshire Chronicles . The first version of Riders
494-450: The transformation of a mutilated horse (Mrs Wilkinson) into a successful racehorse. After publication, it was revealed that Cooper had named a goat in the book (Chisolm) in order to hit back at the critic Anne Chisholm. Cooper also wrote a series of children's books featuring the heroine Little Mabel. In 1961, she married Leo Cooper , a publisher of military history books. The couple had known each other since 1951 (when Jilly Sallitt
520-529: The ups and downs of both their personal and professional lives. It was turned into a television film , Riders (1993), directed by Gabrielle Beaumont for Anglia Television and broadcast on the ITV Network . On 5 November 2019 BBC News included Riders on its list of the 100 most inspiring novels . Set against the backdrop of the English Cotswolds countryside, Riders follows
546-500: Was a passenger in one of the derailed carriages in the Ladbroke Grove rail crash of 1999, in which 31 people died, and crawled through a window to escape. She later spoke of feeling that her "number was up" and of being absurdly concerned, due to shock, about a manuscript she had been carrying. Leo Cooper was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2002. He died on 29 November 2013, at the age of 79. In 2010, Cooper suffered
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#1732765602026572-562: Was about fourteen), although they did not marry until she was 24 and he was 27. The couple was unable to have children naturally, so adopted two children. They have five grandchildren. The Coopers' marriage was greatly disrupted in 1990 when publisher Sarah Johnson revealed she and Leo had had an affair for several years, though Jilly and Leo eventually reunited. In 1982 the couple left Putney , southwest London, for The Chantry, an old manor house in Gloucestershire . Jilly Cooper
598-427: Was based on a short story she wrote for a teenage magazine, as were the subsequent romances, all titled with female names: Bella , Imogen , Prudence , Harriet and Octavia . In October 1993, seven years after Private Eye had pointed out the similarities, Cooper admitted that sections of Emily and Bella were plagiarised from The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy , but said that it was not deliberate. Octavia
624-782: Was educated at the Moorfield School in Ilkley and the Godolphin School in Salisbury . After unsuccessfully trying to begin a career in the British national press , Cooper became a junior reporter for The Middlesex Independent , based in Brentford . She worked for the paper from 1957 to 1959. Subsequently, she worked as an account executive, copywriter , publisher's reader and receptionist . Her break came with
650-586: Was quickly followed by a guide to working life, How to Survive from Nine to Five , in 1970. Some of her journalism was collected into a single volume, Jolly Super , in 1971. The theme of class dominates much of her writing and her non-fiction (including Class itself), which is written from an explicitly upper-middle-class British perspective, with emphasis on the relationships between men and women, and matters of social class in contemporary Britain. As with her non-fiction works, Cooper draws heavily on her own point of view and experiences. For example, her own house
676-729: Was written by 1970, but shortly after Cooper had finished it, she took it with her into the West End of London and left the manuscript on a bus. The London Evening Standard put out an appeal, but it was never found. She was, she says, "devastated", and it took her more than a decade to start it again. Riders and the following books feature intricate plots, multiple story lines and a large number of characters. The books are linked by recurring characters and sometimes overlap each other. The stories heavily feature sexual infidelity and general betrayal, melodramatic misunderstandings and emotions, money worries and domestic upheavals. Each book of
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