Horsey Fiction for Adults (as opposed to kids)

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I read a book on holiday last year called 'Death by Dressage'. It was a murder mystery set in the world of dressage competions and it was a fab read.

Can anyone recommend another such good read for the next holiday?
 
Not really 100% horsey but it has the old favourites.... Rupert Cambell-Black et al Wicked, Jilly Coopers novel kept me occupied on holiday i really enjoyed it.
 
Monty Roberts' 'The Man Who Listens to Horses' - informative and a great read!

Who was 'Death by Dressage' written by?
 
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Monty Roberts' 'The Man Who Listens to Horses' - informative and a great read!

Who was 'Death by Dressage' written by?

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I'm particulary trying to find fiction as I always seem to end up reading non-fiction horsey stuff!
 
Dick Francis/John Francome for racing murder mysteries?
Jenny Pitman also has a series of novels set in the racing world which are worth a read.
 
Two nice books by Charlotte Bingham are To Hear A Nightingale and The Nightingale Sings, set around racing; but be warned, you'll need a few tissues at times!
Airs Above The Ground by Mary Stewart, a thriller set in Austria,with a circus background and the Spanish Riding School, great book which started me being a real fan of MS!
There are some by Lyndon Stacey too, one with showjumping, another with racing.
What about RS Surtees and his books about Jorrocks?
 
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Two nice books by Charlotte Bingham are To Hear A Nightingale and The Nightingale Sings, set around racing; but be warned, you'll need a few tissues at times!


[/ QUOTE ] Could you say a bit about the stories?
 
Couldn't edit but the Jody Jaffe novels seem to have got good reviews on Amazon.. All 4-5 stars. 'In Colt Blood' 'Chestnut Mare, Beware' and 'Horse of a Different Killer'.
 
To Hear A Nightingale:
Brought up in smalltown America by a grandmother who despises her, Cassie McGann's childhood is one of misery and rejection. Fleeing to New York she falls in love with handsome Irish racehorse trainer, Tyrone Rosse and when he marries her and takes her back to Claremore, his tumbledown mansion in Ireland. It looks like she has found happiness at last.
Passionately in love as she is, Cassie finds the all male world of horses and racing rather lonely. There is much for her to learn, not least about the man she has married. Tyrone's success depends heavily on the whims of the rich owners, men and women who can be very demanding. Cassie must learn to endure the enmity of one in particular, who comes out of her buried past determined to destroy her.
When tragedy strikes, it seems that Cassie must once again face rejection and lose her hard-won security. But although the chances of success are slim and the cost in personal happiness considerable, she will not give in and fights against all odds to survive in a world closed to her.

The Nightingale Sings:
When Cassie Rosse becomes the first woman to train an English Derby winner with her home-bred horse The Nightingale, she knows that she shares this success with her dead love, Tyrone.
But life will never be simple for Cassie, a woman who stands alone in what is essentially a man's world. Unable to escape from the long shadows cast by the early death of her husband, yet torn between two extraordinary but very different men, Cassie's integrity and her indomitable will to win trigger a set nightmare. Suddenly it seems that nothing can reverse the downward spiral of events surrounding her famous horse and its future and Cassie is forced to battle hard to keep Claremore, and with it her past with Tyrone and everything that makes her life worthwhile.

Both books read a lot better than that, I ended up really caring about her, sounds soft doesn't it?!

There's also another book, Princess Daisy, it's a bit steamy but does have horses slightly in the background!
 
Fiona Walker's books always have lots of horses and lots of sex....
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MFH - steamy and horses, what more could a girl wish for?
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Thank for the descriptions and to everyone else for suggestions. There will be good reading by the pool me thinks
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Tami Hoag's Dark Horse is a romance/suspense/thriller where the ex-cop heroine finds herself back in the horse world.

Jane Smiley's Horse Heaven is set in the world of racing, and I absolutely adored it.

Isabelle
 
Lyndon Stacey's books usually have an equestrian theme - I've read a few and one was set in a show-jumping background, one eventing and a couple of racing ones.
HH - I think Fiona Walker's books great for hols - the only trouble is I read them too fast and have nothing left for the end of the holiday.
Isabelle - I loved those 2 books too.
 
The Fox in the Cupboard by Jane Shilling - the funniest true account of a London journo who is taught to ride by Gilly Rodgers (sorry if spelt wrong -- a well known horsewoman in Kent) with a mission to go hunting just before the ban. Is hilarious and for anyone who knows Gilly or just fancies some light humour it really is a good read.
 
"In the pink" by Molly Watson is about a woman leaving her city lifestyle for one hunting in the countryside.

Not the greatest but easy holiday type reading
 
Hi If you look up Death by Dressage on Amazon you will also be able to find the other horsey books by the same auther as well as some others.......just off to buy some myself now...LOL
 
Sarah Gruen (American) does a series about showjumping that is quite good where the horses are actually part of the story rather than incidental to it.
 
I have also read "Fox in the cupboard" and "In the pink" and they were both very good.

I am surprised that noone has written a "dramatised" version of that BSJA mother in Jersey and the allegedly modified polos.
 
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