"final showdown at the Los Angeles Olympics, and will success ultimately lead to disaster for Jake? Riders (novel) Riders is an international best-selling 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 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"
"hopes John had of battling in the trenches in Ypres with his regiment – the 4th Battalion Leicestershire (the Tigers)."" Author Catherine Bailey, who wrote the book ""The Secret Rooms"" about the Duke, stated that Rutland ""did all he could to fight with the men of the 4th Leicesters. But it was his mother's meddling and constant undermining that finally got him returned home. He spent the rest of life ashamed and his final years locked away trying to erase his past."" On 27 January 1916, he married Kathleen Tennant (1895–1989), whom he knew from his mother's circle ""The Souls."""
"well as his gentle courtship of his second wife Agatha 'Taggie' O'Hara. He has five children: Marcus and Tabitha from his marriage with Helen Macaulay, adopted children Xavier and Bianca with Taggie, and the illegitimate Perdita. Cooper has acknowledged that the character of Campbell-Black is based upon David Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort, and Andrew Parker Bowles, the former husband of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. In September 2016, Bantam Press published Mount! with the strap line 'Rupert Campbell-Black is back...'. Rupert Campbell-Black Rupert Edward Algernon Campbell-Black is a fictional character in the Rutshire Chronicles series of romance novels written by"
"Robert Knights and executive produced by Sarah Lawson, under her company Lawson Productions, and Neil Zeiger for Blue Heaven Productions. The producer was Irving Teitelbaum. It was adapted by Harvey Bamberg and Andrew MacLear. The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous (1993) is a novel written by Jilly Cooper as part of the Rutshire Chronicles, about a womanizer who gets embroiled in a scheme to punish wayward husbands. The book was first published in hardback in 1993 and then in paperback in April 1994, and was later adapted into a television miniseries. It is generally"
"Duchovney and Christopher Reeve. His biography of the late singer-songwriter John Martyn, ""Solid Air"", published in 2006 was published as an ebook and as a paperback in June 2011. In 2010, Nickson published his first novel, ""The Broken Token"", set in Leeds in 1731. The next novel in the series, ""Cold Cruel Winter"" was published in the UK in May 2011 (September in the US), with the third, ""The Constant Lovers"", published in 2012. All are part of the now longer Richard Nottingham series in the historical fiction/mystery genre. In May 2018, the Richard Nottingham series consisted of eight books,"
"linked by recurring characters (chiefly Rupert Campbell-Black, Roberto Rannaldini, and their families) and later books make reference to events of previous books. The stories heavily feature adultery/(sexual) infidelity and general betrayal, melodramatic misunderstandings and emotions, money worries and domestic upheavals. Each book of the ""Rutshire Chronicles"" is set in a milieu that can be considered glamorous and wealthy, 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"
"Earl of Rutland (circa 1492 - 1543) in 1563. Sir George supposedly disapproved of the union, possibly because the Manners were Protestants and the Vernons were Catholics. According to legend, 18-year-old Dorothy eloped with Manners. In the novel, neither Dorothy Vernon nor John Manners has any siblings. Also, John Manners' father is alive. In the novel, the elopement takes place in 1568 (an adjustment needed to make it line up with Queen Mary's flight to England, which is a plot point in the novel). The story is narrated by Sir George Vernon's 35-year-old cousin, Malcolm François de Lorraine Vernon. Raised"
"science fiction writer Andre Norton first reached success with a 1934 Ruritanian novel, ""The Prince Commands"". Although ""Ruritania"" originally referred to a ""contemporary"" country, the idea has been adapted for use in historical fiction. A subgenre of this is historical romance, such as Jennifer Blake's ""Royal Seduction"" and its sequel ""Royal Passion""; both are set in the nineteenth century and feature Prince Rolfe (later King) and his son Prince Roderic respectively, of the fictional Balkan country of Ruthenia. (Ruthenia is a genuine geographic name, identifying an area of eastern Europe somewhat to the north of the Balkan peninsula, in the"
"Chronicles of Barsetshire The Chronicles of Barsetshire is a series of six novels by the English author Anthony Trollope, set in the fictitious English county of Barsetshire and its cathedral town of Barchester. The novels concern the dealings of the clergy and the gentry, and the political, amatory, and social manœuvrings that go on among and between them. Of the six novels, the second in the series, ""Barchester Towers"", is generally the best known, while the last was Trollope's own favourite. Together, the series is regarded by many as Trollope's finest work. The novels in the series are: Nathaniel Hawthorne"
"novels including ""To Hear a Nightingale"", ""The Business"" and ""In Sunshine or in Shadow"". Most of her books are set in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1996, she won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association. Charlotte Bingham The Hon. Charlotte Bingham (born 29 June 1942) is an English novelist who has written over 30 mainly historical romance novels and has also written for many television programmes including ""Upstairs, Downstairs""; ""Play for Today""; and ""Robin's Nest"". In her television work, she often worked with her husband, Terence Brady. The Honourable Charlotte Mary Thérèse Bingham"
"The Great Lover (novel) The Great Lover is a 2009 biographical novel by Jill Dawson. The novel follows the fictional Nell Golightly as she encounters the eccentric poet Rupert Brooke in Grantchester, Cambridgeshire. Set from 1909 until 1914, in the novel Dawson examines Brooke's relationship with Nell, and his growth as a poet and individual. The novel is based on the biography of Brooke during that period, incorporating opinions, ideas, and excerpts from Brooke's letters and other primary sources documenting his life. Much of the novel emphasises Brooke's sexuality and his understanding of love. Additionally, the novel contrasts the various"
"series was inspired by James Runcie's father, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie. In 2014, some of ""The Grantchester Mysteries"" short stories were turned into an ITV drama titled ""Grantchester"". Filmed on location in Grantchester, Cambridge, and London, the initial six-part series was shown in the UK in Autumn 2014. A second series was released in 2016. The Grantchester Mysteries The Grantchester Mysteries is a series of crime fiction books of short stories by the British author James Runcie, beginning during the 1950s in Grantchester, a village near Cambridge in England. The books feature the clergyman-detective Canon Sidney Chambers,"
"2014 and in its French edition in 2016. He has written an e-thriller, 'Paradise Island', and an e-novella, ""The Belgian and The Beekeeper"", set on the Sussex Downs in 1916, in which Sherlock Holmes is asked by a celebrated foreign detective to investigate Dr Watson. Peter Guttridge Peter Guttridge (born in Burnley, Lancashire) is an English novelist and critic. He was educated at Burnley Grammar School, the University of Oxford and the University of Nottingham. He is a former Director of the Brighton Literature Festival and remains a regular chairperson at major UK book festivals. In 2014 he established Books"
"writing Jessica Stirling novels, when ""The Wind from the Hills"" was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association Romantic Novel of the Year prize. Hugh C. Rae Hugh Crauford Rae (22 November 1935 – 24 September 2014) was a Scottish author of romantic historical fiction novels and thrillers. He wrote fiction using several pseudonyms, including Jessica Stirling, and Robert Crawford. Rae was born in Knightswood, outside Glasgow, in 1935, the son of a riveter. He lectured in creative writing at Glasgow University adult education classes. Rae was known for writing fiction, such as the thriller ""The Marksman"" later televised by the"
"22 March 1703). On 29 March 1703, his long support of Whig government was rewarded by his creation as Duke of Rutland and Marquess of Granby. Rutland was reappointed to the lord lieutenancy in 1706, which he retained until his death on 10 January 1711. He married, firstly, Lady Anne Pierrepont, daughter of Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, and Cecilia Bayning, on 15 July 1658. The failure of their marriage attracted considerable public attention, as divorce was not generally available at the time. He obtained a ""separation from bed and board"" in 1663 on grounds of her adultery, and"
"Jane Routley Jane Routley is an Australian writer of fantasy fiction. Jane Routley was born in Melbourne, Australia. Her first book ""Mage Heart"" was released in the U.S. in 1996. It is the first book in the ""Mage Heart"" series. She has since released two more novels in the series. In 2000 all three novels were published in Australia. Dutch and German editions have also appeared. Jane had also published a novel ""The Three Sisters"" in the U.S. under the pseudonym Rebecca Locksley. She has written a number of short stories including a contribution to Paul Collins' Fantastic Worlds anthology"
"Rita Bradshaw Rita Bradshaw (born 1950 in Northampton, England) is a British romance novelist, she wrote historical romances as her real name and under the pseudonym Helen Brooks contemporary romances at Mills & Boon since 1992. Rita Bradshaw born in 1950 in Northampton, England. She met her husband Clive at the age of 16. They have three children: Cara, Faye, and Benjamin. A former secretary, she began writing in 1990 at the age of 40, and published her first novel in 1992 at Mills & Boon under the pseudonym Helen Brooks. Since 1998, she also signs historical romances under her"
"Barbara Cartland Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland, (9 July 1901 – 21 May 2000) was an English novelist who wrote romance novels, one of the best-selling authors as well as one of the most prolific and commercially successful worldwide of the 20th century. Her 723 novels were translated into 38 languages and she continues to be referenced in the ""Guinness World Records"" for the most novels published in a single year in 1976. As Barbara Cartland she is known for writing numerous romantic novels but she had also written books under her married name of Barbara McCorquodale and briefly under"
"Claire Robyns Claire Robyns (born 1968, Port Elizabeth, South Africa) is an author of historical and contemporary romances. Robyns grew up in Pretoria, South Africa, and then moved to Cape Town. She now resides in Berkshire, England with her family. Robyns has twin sons, born in Cape Town, South Africa. Her Scottish medieval romances are published by Carina Press, an imprint of Harlequin Enterprises. These include ""Betrayed"" and ""The Devil of Jedburgh"". Robyns has also written a steampunk adventure/romance series called ""Dark Matters"" set in Victorian England. Contemporary romance works include the ""Corkscrew Bay"" series and the ""How to Love"""
"her other novels are set in Victorian era Yorkshire, like her popular ""Barforth Trilogy"". Brenda Jagger died in 1986. Brenda Jagger Brenda Jagger (born 7 September 1936 in Yorkshire, England – d. 1986) was a British writer of 9 historical romance novels. In 1986, her last novel ""A Song Twice Over"" won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Brenda Jagger was born on 7 September 1936 in Yorkshire, England, UK. She married, and had three daughters. Before writing, she worked in Paris, France, and as a probation officer in the north of England. She"
"in that estate until his death in 1999. A lifelong Conservative, the Duke served on Leicestershire County Council as the County Councillor for the Vale of Belvoir Division from 1945 until 1985. He was Chairman of Leicestershire County Council from 1974 until 1977. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1962 New Year Honours ""for political and public services in the East Midlands"". Rutland married Anne Bairstow Cumming-Bell on 27 April 1946. They had one child together: Following a divorce in 1956, Rutland was married on 15 May 1958 to Frances Helen Sweeny,"
"of 1810, ""The Cunning House"" (2015). He writes a blog on topics related to Romantic literature. In 2013, he was one of the three English-panel judges for the Wales Book of the Year. Richard Marggraf Turley Richard Marggraf Turley (born 2 August 1970) is a British literary critic, poet and novelist. He specialises in Romanticism and the poetry of John Keats, surveillance studies and ecocriticism. He is professor of English Literature at Aberystwyth University, and is that institution's Professor of Engagement with the Public Imagination. Marggraf Turley was born in the Forest of Dean. He moved to Wales at the"
"Charlie Resnick Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick is the protagonist of a series of eleven police procedural novels by British writer John Harvey, based in the city of Nottingham. Resnick is of Polish descent and loves sandwiches and jazz. The first novel in the series, ""Lonely Hearts"" was published in 1989, and was named by The Times as one of the """"100 Greatest Crime Novels of the Century"""". What was believed to be the final novel in the series, ""Last Rites"", was published in 1998. However, in an interview on BBC Four on 7 November 2006 John Harvey mentioned that he"
"third novel, ""A Promise of Love."" Approximately three years after she had begun writing the first novel, Kensington agreed to purchase both of Ranney's completed works as well as the novel in progress. Most of Ranney's novels are set in Scotland and feature ""believable characters, careful plotting, and simmering sexual tension."" She has been nominated nine times for a ""Romantic Times"" Reviewers' Choice Award and won a ""Romantic Times"" Career Achievement Award in 2002 for British-set Historical Romance. In 2014 Ranney began writing the paranormal romance series ""The Montgomery Chronicles"", which center on a newly and unwillingly turned female vampire,"
"first novel. Sarah is the author of numerous short-stories, many of which were published in 19 magazine in the 1970s, and 9 novels, published between 1984 and 2000. Sarah Woodhouse Sarah Woodhouse (born 1950 in Birmingham, England) is a British writer. In 1989, her novel ""The Peacock's Feather"" was awarded the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Sarah Woodhouse was born in 1950 in Birmingham, England, UK. She grew up in Cambridgeshire and attended St Mary's convent school, before studying for a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature at Reading University. In the"
"Alison Uttley Alison Uttley (17 December 1884 – 7 May 1976), ""née"" Alice Jane Taylor, was an English writer of over 100 books. She is best known for a children's series about Little Grey Rabbit and Sam Pig. She is also remembered for a pioneering time slip novel for children, ""A Traveller in Time"", about the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots. Born in Cromford and brought up in rural Derbyshire, she was educated at the Lea School in Holloway and the Lady Manners School in Bakewell, where she developed a love for science which led to a scholarship to Manchester"
"professor of environmental journalism and writing at Huxley College of the Environment at Western Washington University, where he advises Planet magazine. He currently lives in Washington state with his wife Holly. He has two grown daughters. William Dietrich (novelist) William Dietrich (born September 29, 1951) is an American novelist, non-fiction writer, journalist, and college professor. His historical novels and thrillers have made bestseller lists and his Ethan Gage series, set during the Napoleonic wars, have sold in 28 languages. He has also written novels set in the Roman Empire, Antarctica, and Australia. His non-fiction works are natural history and environmental"
"the rotation on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Charlie Resnick Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick is the protagonist of a series of eleven police procedural novels by British writer John Harvey, based in the city of Nottingham. Resnick is of Polish descent and loves sandwiches and jazz. The first novel in the series, ""Lonely Hearts"" was published in 1989, and was named by The Times as one of the """"100 Greatest Crime Novels of the Century"""". What was believed to be the final novel in the series, ""Last Rites"", was published in 1998. However, in an interview on BBC Four on 7"
"Anne Easter Smith Anne Easter Smith is an English-American historical novelist. She is the aunt of England rugby No. 8, Nick Easter. Her novels are set during the Wars of the Roses, the period during which two branches of the House of Plantagenet, the Houses of York and Lancaster, were in contention for the throne of England. Easter Smith's first novel, ""A Rose for the Crown"", has as its central theme the love story between Richard, while he was Duke of Gloucester during the reign of his brother Edward IV, and the woman who gave birth to Richard's pre-marriage illegitimate"
"Rosemary Rogers Rosemary Rogers, née Rosemary Jansz (born 7 December 1932 in Panadura, Ceylon, now Sri Lanka) is a best-selling author of historical romance novels. Her first book, ""Sweet Savage Love"", was published in 1974. She was the second romance author, after Kathleen Woodiwiss, to have her novels published in trade paperback format. Both writers found their initial success working with editor Nancy Coffey who was then with Avon Books. Rogers is considered to be one of the founders of the modern historical romance, and many of today's writers cite her writing as one of their biggest influences. She lives"
"war hero and poet, whose romantic letters to his fiancée, the poet May Wedderburn Cannan, were published in ""Tears of War"". Kenneth Grahame inscribed a first edition of his ""The Wind in the Willows"" to Arthur's daughter, Foy Felicia, attributing Quiller-Couch as the inspiration for the character Ratty. He was educated at Newton Abbot Proprietary College, at Clifton College, and Trinity College, Oxford, where he took a First in Classical Moderations (1884) and a Second in Greats (1886). From 1886 he was for a brief time a classical lecturer at Trinity. After some journalistic experience in London, mainly as a"
"Based on the Babington Plot of Anthony Babington at Dethick, near her family home, this romance mixes dream and historical fact in a story about a 20th-century girl who is transported to the 16th century, becoming involved in a plot to free Mary, Queen of Scots from nearby Wingfield Manor. Uttley later settled in Beaconsfield, in a house named Thackers after the house in the book. In January 1978 BBC TV showed the five-part series ""A Traveller in Time"" based on Uttley's story. It starred 15-year-old newcomer Sophie Thompson and then rising star Simon Gipps-Kent. In 1970 the University of"
"Marion Chesney Marion Gibbons (née McChesney; born 1936) is a Scottish writer of romance and mystery novels since 1979. She has written numerous successful historical romance novels under a form of her maiden name, Marion Chesney, including the Travelling Matchmaker and Daughters of Mannerling series. Using the pseudonym M. C. Beaton, she has also written many popular mystery novels, most notably the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth mystery series. Both of these book series have been adapted for TV. She has also written romance novels under the pseudonyms Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Charlotte Ward, and Sarah Chester. Writing"