Between the Covers

What better gift to give for Christmas than this wonderfully irreverent collection of the great Jilly Cooper’s columns from the 60s? * i newspaper *No one else can make me laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time, quite like Jilly Cooper * Gill Sims *Jilly Cooper’s non-fiction is just as entertaining as her novels * Pandora Sykes *This book has given me so much pleasure * Alan Titchmarsh *Britain needs this jolly Jilly Cooper collection…Line after line, anecdote after anecdote is laugh-out-loud funny, the prose bouncing along like a labrador puppy * The Times *There are so many lifestyle columnists today, you forget that Cooper did it first and did it best * The Telegraph *A collection of Jilly Cooper’s vintage newspaper columns is bitchy, sexy, insightful and, most of all, great fun * Observer *She is simply a legend * Daily Mail *This [is an] enjoyable collection of typically candid, irreverent and self-deprecating observations * Choice Magazine *

Jilly Cooper was a journalist, author and media superstar. The author of many number one bestselling books, she lived in Gloucestershire where her groundbreaking Rutshire Chronicles series was set. Awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of Gloucestershire and Anglia Ruskin, she also won the inaugural Comedy Women in Print lifetime achievement award in 2019, and was appointed DBE in 2024 for services to literature and charity. She died in 2025.