Yes! It's finally happened! After 5 years and over 150 episodes, we have finally lured Jilly Cooper onto the podcast! Jilly is the author most discussed, swooned over and beatified on the show, so we are beyond delighted to sit down and talk to her. Jilly is the internationally bestselling author of iconic novels such as Riders, Rivals and The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous and her latest release Tackle! We talked to her about poetry, Nancy Mitford, jumpsuits, Penelope Keith, memorable villains, romance and football.

More information about Daisy's Limelight launch at The Yard is HERE! Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: [email protected]. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked

BOOKS

Jilly Cooper - Tackle

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Jilly Cooper - How To Stay Married

Jilly Cooper - Imogen 

Jilly Cooper - Harriet

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Georgette Heyer - Devil's Cub

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

Barbara Pym - Excellent Women

Federico Garcia Lorca - Selected Poems

George Crabbe - Collected Poems

Jilly Cooper - Mount

Richard Osman - Thursday Murder Club

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Walter Emanuel - A Dog Day

Beatrix Potter - Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher

Beatrix Potter - Tailor of Gloucester

Beatrix Potter - Peter Rabbit

Beatrix Potter - Tom Kitten

Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories

Rudyard Kipling - Cat That Walked by Himself

Anna Sewell - Black Beauty

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

Anthony Powell - A Question of Upbringing

Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Marquess of Anglesey - History of the British Cavalry

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Jilly Cooper - Between the Covers

Barbara Pym - Jane and Prudence

Andre Leon Talley - Chiffon Trenches

William Wordsworth - Collected Poems

Thomas Harding - The Maverick

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Mary McCarthy - The Group

Simone De Beauvoir - The Second Sex

Diana Athill - Stet

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight

Jean Rhys - Voyage in the Dark

Katherine May - Electricity of Every Living Thing

Gill Sims - Why Mummy Drinks

Gill Sims - Why Mummy Drinks at Christmas

Jilly Cooper - How To Survive Christmas

Jane Austen - Emma

WH Auden - Rimbaud

Nick Hornby - Fever Pitch

Jilly Cooper - Wicked

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim

Martin Amis - Money

Ian Herbert - Tinseltown

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Jack London - White Fang

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