If ever a decade benefitted from the rosy glow of hindsight, it’s the 1980s. Maligned at the time for “abominations” such as puffball skirts, shoulder pads, double denim and neon ...

A new eight-part drama, based on one of Dame Jilly Cooper's so-called "bonkbusters" and partly filmed in the West, is being streamed. Rivals, released in 1988, has been adapted for a Disney+ ...

A further trip back to 1980s Preston has been revealed as a city photographer raids his archives. Paul Melling’s pictures of life in the city during the early 80s have been attracting lots of ...

I’m talking about the books of the 1980s that spawned the “bonkbuster” genre. It’s perhaps the reason we are all so hotly anticipating the release of Rivals by Dame Jilly Cooper on Disney+.

Your browser does not support the <audio> element. On September 25th the Aotearoa, one of just a handful of ships in the Royal New Zealand Navy, sailed through the ...

In the 1980s, when author Jilly Cooper and her family moved a couple hours outside of London to the upscale rural enclave known as the Cotswolds, she soon learned the local pastime was sex.

Jilly Cooper's 'bonkbusting' novel of the 1980s, Rivals, which followed a group of eccentric 'country set' characters in the fictional UK county of Rutshire, has now been adapted into a television ...

What were you doing in the 1980s? Dancing around your bedroom to Bananarama in a ra-ra skirt perhaps? It's the era in which ITV's new hit series Joan is set. Starring Game Of Thrones' Sophie ...