![]() ![]() ![]() Victoria Hislop, author of The Island, tells the Times that the new cover is “frankly totally unsexy”. ![]() Writers are “up in arms”! Well, sort of (and not Cooper herself, who hasn’t commented). You can also see more of the riding crop – hints of Fifty Shades, perhaps?Īnyway. I had to peer closely at the covers to notice the “controversial” retreat, which I would say is slightly more than an inch. The new edition, for the book’s 30th anniversary, however, moves the hand slightly – it’s now “sat rather conservatively on the rider’s hip”, says the Mail. Just look where his fingers are straying. ![]() And it’s also fair to say that the novel’s cover - which, as the Times puts it, “featured a man’s hand resting intimately on the seat of a woman’s jodhpurs” - was something out of the ordinary for such a mainstream title. But back in the 1980s, it was largely just Jackie Collins, and Jilly. Novels of this length, and containing this much sex, are everywhere these days. Set in the world of showjumping, and centring on the personal and professional life of the devastatingly good-looking but dastardly Rupert Campbell-Black and his rival Jake Lovell, it’s fair to say that Riders marked a step change in publishing. She’d already written a series of much shorter books focusing on one woman and her relationships, but this was her first proper doorstopper, tangling together the lives of a cast list that ran to pages. Published 30 years ago, the novel was Cooper’s first “bonkbuster”. ![]()
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