Bøger af Jemma Spark

This book includes a comprehensive list of 'Who's Who' in the Jemma Spark series of Jill books, including humans and animals. There are 2 short stories by Jemma Spark. The first, narrated by Jill, is 'The Engagement Party', which is the tale of Cecilia Talbot's engagement party held at Blainstock Castle. The guests arrive on Thursday evening. They go trekking in the Highlands, sailing and canoeing on the loch. There is a fancy dress party on Saturday night and on the following morning, one of the guests cannot be found. A full-scale search ensues. Jill, Ann Derry and Dinah Dean set their minds to discovering the missing guest and who is responsible for her sinister disappearance. The second short story is narrated by Susan Barrington-Brown, featured in 'Jill and the Prizewinners', and introduces Noel, Henry and Christo to the Jill series.

Jill Crewe is a young woman living in rural England during the early 1960s. In previous books her charmed childhood in Chatton with her two ponies Black Boy and Rapide, was described. In her spare time she wrote pony books about her real life. Teetering on the edge of adulthood she moved to the Scottish Highlands to live in a castle when her mother married Richard Micheldever. Moving on from ponies to horses she is now the owner of Balius, a magnificent thoroughbred cross Highland gelding, and a sweet chestnut mare, Copperplate.This is the fourth book in Jemma Spark's Jill series and our heroine goes back to Chatton to live in her original home, Pool Cottage. Her best friend Ann Derry is emotionally wrecked from a love affair gone wrong and goes to stay with her. Their life of horsey adventures, and sometimes misadventures continue. Jill acquires a steeplechaser and enters a point-to-point to try race riding. In order to qualify to enter the race Jill has to foxhunt and after her first enthusiasm she is forced to grapple with a moral dilemma when faced with anti-blood sport protests. A host of original characters parade through the pages including the Cholly-Sawcutt sisters, Jill's old enemy Susan Pyke, Wendy Mead the instructor at Mrs Darcy's riding school, James and Diana Bush, Jill's cousin Cecilia and many more.

This is one of seven books, which comprise the Jill series by Jemma Spark. They''re a follow-on of the original Ruby Ferguson Jill books, which were the most popular pony books of their time and translated into many languages. Ostensibly, they are classified as Young Adult, and contain no explicit adult content. However, they fit more neatly into a developing genre with a devoted following called ''Pony Books for Adults''. They are set in the early 1960s and contain little nuggets of interesting historical context of the post-war years. There is also a strong element of horses and ponies, which appeal to the huge population of pony-lovers and horse-lovers. The series includes ''Jill Rides Cross-Country'', ''Jill Has Two Horses'', ''Jill Goes Pony Trekking'', Jill and the Steeplechaser'', ''Jill Dreams of a Dressage Horse'', ''Jill and the Horsemasters'' and ''All Change at Blainstock Stables''. They have consistently achieved ''best-seller'' status in their genre on Amazon. A French translation, ''Les Aventures de Jill: Des Ponies aux Chevaux'' will be published shortly.  Jill Crewe returns to England after a month of dressage training in Germany and is beset with a burning ambition to buy her own dressage horse and compete at the highest levels. During her childhood she dreamed of jumping in the open jumping at Chatton Show, now she wants to represent England in the dressage competitions at the Olympics. She is scheduled to work as an assistant to the Master of the Horse while the film Macbeth is being shot at her home Blainstock Castle, in the Scottish Highlands. By chance, she finds a dressage horse right under her nose and can think of nothing but how to raise the huge amount of money that she needs to buy it.

This is the sixth book in the Jill Series by Jemma Spark.Jill Crewe has just acquired a fantastic dressage horse, and she is determined that she will compete at the highest levels. It is the early 1960s, and her ambition is to Ride for England. She also wants to become an equestrian journalist and is offered the chance to write dressage articles for Horse and Hound. Until now, Jill has avoided the irksome issue of romance, but at this stage of her life she finds herself in the grip of an infatuation for a dashing and accomplished horseman. Training her dressage horse, pursuing a career as a journalist, and attracting a handsome man lead her into a series of madcap adventures and misadventures.