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  • Published: 9 November 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529190892
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $32.99

Tackle!




The brand-new book from the legendary Jilly Cooper, featuring the iconic Rupert Campbell-Black. Be prepared for scandal, sex and sabotage - this time on the football field...

Jilly Cooper is a true fan favourite:

'Entertaining, witty and a total escape!'
'Unputdownable and addictive as always'
'Rupert is back. Still gorgeous. Still naughty. Still wondrous'
'A delightfully indulgent read . . . twists in the plot and, as always, a charming ending'

Jilly Cooper's legendary hero returns!

Rupert Campbell-Black, undefeated race-horse owner and handsomest man in the world, is in the darkest of places. His adored wife, Taggie, is about to undergo chemotherapy, his beloved horse Love Rat has died, and now his daughter Bianca wants him to buy a languishing local football club - a sport Rupert knows nothing about - so she can return to Rutshire with her football star husband.

Rupert's first impressions of Searston Rovers are distinctly unfavourable. But swayed by Bianca and Taggie, soon Rupert has signed the deal. As Searston's new owner, he won't stand for anything less than victory in the Premier League, despite the odds being stacked against him. With help from the club's ravishing and adorable secretary, Tember West, Rupert sets out to mastermind Searston's rise to the top, starting with taking charge of the players - much to the fury of Searston's manager.

The rival football club and their corrupt dealings aren't going to make it easy for him either - and they have a history of foul play. Let the sabotage and scandal begin...


Praise for Jilly Cooper:
'Fun, sexy and unputdownable - a classic' Marian Keyes
'A combination of drama, sex and good social comedy . . . unputdownable' Sunday Times
'Flawlessly entertaining' Helen Fielding
'Jilly Cooper is the very best . . . elegant, glamorous, wonderful fun' Daily Mail
'Joyful and mischievous' Jojo Moyes

  • Published: 9 November 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529190892
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $32.99

About the author

Jilly Cooper

Jilly Cooper is a journalist, author and media superstar. The author of many number one bestselling novels, she lives in Gloucestershire with her rescue racing greyhound, Bluebell.

She has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of Gloucestershire and Anglia Ruskin, and won the inaugural Comedy Women in Print lifetime achievement award in 2019. She was appointed CBE in 2018 for services to literature and charity.

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Praise for Tackle!

A giddy, sexy, exuberant romp of a story...a total tonic, offering the sort of glorious escapism we're all desperately in need of

Daisy Buchanan

Bursting with fun, puns, and shenanigans

Jill Mansell

If you loved Riders, and binge-watched Ted Lasso, then this is your dream novel. Pitch perfect and utterly swoon-worthy. Jilly is a genius

Clare Pooley

A fabulous feast of fun, frolics and football

Jo Thomas

Won't disappoint her many fans: bonking, balls and Campbell-Black. All present and incorrect

Sir Ian Rankin

Jilly is back on fine form bringing the world of football to brilliant life. A read that was fleet of foot and contained plenty of last minute surprises ... I loved it

Cesca Major

I felt my mood perceptibly improve over the few days of reading ... The only problem with Tackle! is that you have to ration yourself or you'll gobble it up in one go

The Telegraph

A jolly jolt of Jilly on a cold autumn day

The Times

The queen of British bonkbusters

The Economist

With her talent for boisterous plots and dialogue, Cooper delivers feisty fun ... With this novel, Cooper shoots again and scores

Daily Telegraph

clever and enormous fun to read

i

A total treat

Daily Mail

Pure escapism - who could ask for more?

Daily Express

There's still something infectiously joyful and funny about [Cooper's] particular brand of very English writing

The Observer

It's pure escapism - the perfect antidote to the real world, full of warmth, wit and Rupert Campbell-Black

Sunday Express

A breathless plot that [...] sizzles with all the scandal, scheming and saucy shenanigans a reader could hope for

The Mail on Sunday