Horsey authors!

[MizElz]

i need some more BOOKS!!!!

is there anyone other than:

jilly cooper
jenny pitman
dick francis
caroline akrill
the pullein thompsons
ginny elliot
john francome
bonnie bryant
graeme roe
lindon stacey

who writes (reasonably) good horsey fiction????

 

[gloster_image]

Lol you've got all the ones I read on there - the Jenny Pitman series was amazing loved them, and John Francome well all his books (bar 1) have been excellent.
Bonnie Bryant lol used to love those books when i was younger!

Actually have you read the heartland series? They're v good.

 

[ghosthooves]

Patricia Leitch and Ruby Ferguson? Used to love those books

 

[MizElz]

i've read a couple of the heartland books, wasnt sure about them (oh yeah, then there was the half moon ranch ones too! all a bit american for me!)

my long (v v v long) term project is to create a 'saddle club series for brits' lol! watch this space, i've nearly finished the first one and it has me in fits! based on all the mad things iv seen, heard and done at Pony Club over the years!

have you read jenny pitmans The Inheritance? i loved the others but thought this one was crappy in comparison!!!

JILLY COOPER RULES!!

 

[Mid]

Have you read the Jill books? I loved them xD

Eventer's Dream trilogy by Caroline Akril was good too

 

[cobden99]

K M Peyton ! I loved Fly By Night and The Team as a kid, still read them every now and again

 

[Tulsi]

Have you read "Dark Horse" by Tami Hoag and "Brat Farrar" by Josephine Tey? Mysteries with horsey backgrounds but very different (fomer contemporary, US, murder mystery; latter 1940s English, inheritance scam) - both worth a read.

 

[Bess]

Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley is quite good, its a collection of short stories.

 

[stormhorse]

Elynn Mitchell - Silver Brumby
Walter & Steven Farley - Black Stallion
H M Peel (very difficult to get hold of)
Charlotte Bingham The Nightnigale Sings & To Hear a Nightingale
try looking at http://www.ponydom.com/books for more suggestions.

 

[TGM]

K M Peyton and Patricia Leitch are two of my favourites. I find their stories a little more realistic and 'adult' than the Pullein-Thompsons, for example.

 

[htobago]

Barn Blind by Jane Smiley (Adult stuff, not pony-club. Beautifully written, rather chilling story of a dysfunctional horse-obsessed mother and her family...Smiley is a brilliant writer; you'll get hooked and want to read her non-horsey novels as well.)

There's also a series of books by an American writer whose name escapes me, one of which is called 'Death by Dressage'. Unlike Smiley these are not great literature, but quite entertaining murder-mysteries set in the dressage world. I think another one is called 'Death on the Diagonal' or something daft like that. A search on Amazon should find them.