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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.