Rutshire Chronicles Books in Order

Back in the world of flat racing, Mount! finds Rupert Campbell Black determined to have his stallion Love Rat crowned leading sire. His quest drags him around the globe, strains his marriage to Taggie and opens the door to fresh temptations, rivalries and family crises on and off the racecourse.

Sweet natured widow Etta Bancroft rescues a battered, one eyed filly she calls Mrs Wilkinson, then joins a village syndicate to race her. The novel follows the horse’s rise through point to points and big jump meetings, and the parallel tangle of love, loyalty and ambition among Etta’s new friends.

In Wicked!, ambitious comprehensive head Janna Curtis reluctantly teams up with arrogant Bagley Hall headmaster Hengist Brett Taylor to save her underfunded school by sharing facilities. As posh and state pupils collide, friendships, romances and feuds erupt on playing fields, in staff rooms and backstage at a joint school play.

Pandora centres on a supposedly lost Raphael painting stolen during the Second World War, then hung for decades in a country house bedroom. When it disappears again, the obsessive Belvedon family, a glamorous impostor and sharp eyed dealers are pulled into a long running battle over art, money and desire.

Part bonkbuster, part whodunnit, Score! brings cast and crew to Rannaldini’s gothic abbey to film Verdi’s Don Carlos. As jealousies, affairs and artistic tantrums mount, the tyrannical conductor is murdered, and it falls to those around him to untangle both the crime and their own messy lives.

Set in the classical music world, Appassionata follows star violinist Abigail Rosen after a suicide attempt forces her to reinvent herself as a conductor with a struggling provincial orchestra, where professional rivalries, backstage affairs and the sinister presence of maestro Roberto Rannaldini complicate every rehearsal.

Lysander Hawkley has looks, charm and no money, until a friend suggests he hire himself out to neglected wives who want to jolt their straying husbands. His new career creates havoc across Rutshire, tangling him with powerful men, vulnerable women and his own feelings.

In Polo, moody, magnetic player Ricky France Lynch tries to rebuild his life and career after tragedy, while difficult teenage horsewoman Perdita MacLeod claws her way into the high stakes world of international polo, tangling with rock stars, tycoons and the Campbell Black clan.

Set in the mid 1980s, Rivals drops Rupert Campbell Black into the ruthless world of a regional television franchise, where charismatic interviewer Declan O’Hara, scheming boss Tony Baddingham and powerhouse producer Cameron Cook battle over ratings, power and each other.

The first Rutshire Chronicle plunges into the international show jumping circuit, following swaggering aristocrat Rupert Campbell Black and self made rider Jake Lovell as their old school feud spills into the ring, their marriages and a bid for Olympic glory.