What horsey books did/do you read?

Did anyone see that god-awful drama 'Riders' with Michael wotsisname in it? Quite dreadful....and to my shame I know I have the VHS tape lurking somewhere...

Anyway, a non-horsey friend who had watched it, asked me if life was really like that in the horsey world..

'Oh yes, I have a new affair every other month'...I replied, along with a few other 'exaggerated' claims....

Daft girl went and booked a course of riding lessons...

Hahahahahaha!

I will never forget that....
 
I loved Patricia Leitch (all those highlands!) and the Pullein Thompson sisters' books. Never really liked the Jill books.

LOVED The Far distant Oxus / Escape to Persia / Oxus in Summer - though I've never met anyone else who read them :o

Also had a few randoms I loved - Showjumping Secret (boy partially paralysed by polio, learning to sj) and Coco the Gifthorse, which was fab if ridiculous :D

I also liked the horsey famous fives etc - (Mystery Moor, anyone?!) and I'm ashamed to say I liked the Samantha Alexander "Riders" series, which now scare the heck out of me - 14 y/old in a relationship with an adult :eek:


Unrelatedly, today I have been reading "Kottas on dressage" and, in between feeling incompetent as a rider, I have been mostly thinking about how hot he is, for an older guy. Clearly, reading the "Riders" series affected me more than I realised :eek:
 
Have some of the Jilly Cooper books and rather like Fiona Walker who is a very similar style of writer to Jilly Cooper. Am currently reading 'French Relations' by Fiona Walker and have borrowed all of her books from the local library to read. They are definitely an adult read. Not for passing to the children. As a child I was a huge fan of the Jill books. Couldn't stand the Silver Brumby series at all. Even as a child, I liked my books to have some semblance of reality.
 
All the Jill books, Pullen Thompson, The Four Jays, Punchbowl series, if it involved a horse I read it. Sometimes I will dig them out and re-read them - especially my favourites. I remember reading Black Beauty in the early hours of the morning, a Tuesday 2nd February 1960 when dad took my mum to hospital to have my little brother. Kids wern't allowed in those days.
 
The dark horse, a horse by any other name,heartland, a couple of the chestnut hill ones, blind beauty, black beauty and Monty Roberts autobiography :)
 
I use to read The Saddle Club, Jill books, Jinny and Shantih, the Pullien-Thompson books and Fly by Night by KM Peyton.

Read all the Jilly Cooper books, Polo is my fave
 
I read a book called 'Four Rode Home' first pony book I read I was a pony mad kid that had only ever sT on a pony once at London Zoo! I was very excited to discover the genre.
I still want to ride home from the New Forest!
 
Jill books were/are brilliant as were the earlier P-T sisters` ones. Didn`t like them nearly as much when they made them more up-to-date. My favourite more recent book is Jane Shilling`s The Fox in the Cupboard, tremendous reading.
 
Ooh so many! Pullen Thompson, Jill, jackie, jinny and shantith, midnight magic series (does anyone remember these? Set in Wales? Fabulous pencil illustrations now and then) Holywell, phantom horse, saddle club (all thousand of them lol) silver brumby
 
I too used to read all the 'Jill' books. For adult reading a good one is 'Tschiffely's Ride' published in 1933 (still available - I've just checked) about the author crossing South America with two horses (Mancha and Gato If I remember correctly). Also I like horsey autobiographies - have just read Paul Nicholls - very good. Looking through my book shelf I discovered 'Bit by Bit' by Diana Tuke, published in the 70's. I used to pore over that book for ages looking for solutions to my braking problems!
 
Can't believe no one has mentioned Caroline akrill?? Eventers dream trilogy was amazing - re read it the other day and still as good! She also did a couple of adult books to:- 'flying changes', a quite dark book which has always stayed with me, and 'not quite a horsewoman' which is hilarious, I think I'll go and re read it now in fact! X
 
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