This is the second book in Jemma Spark’s Jill Series which is a follow-on from the original Jill books by Ruby Ferguson. Jill Crewe is now living in the Scottish Highlands and is the proud owner of a young horse, Balius. She decides that she would like a second horse, more experienced and ready to begin competing in open classes, as she had had two ponies in her youth, Black Boy and Rapide.She accepts the offer of a full-time job working in Cornwall. Taking Balius with her, she dri...

Rafael is a young man, who grew up as an orphan in a shanty town on the outskirts of Montevideo, the capital city of Uruguay, a South American country. His parents died when he was ten, and he was unofficially adopted by Carina, a British exile who had left England when she was twenty-five years. She has taught Rafael everything she knows about horses. He became a gifted and intuitive horseman. When Carina dies, Rafael goes to work as a stable boy at the Melilla riding school, but he has n...

This is the fifth book in Jemma Spark’s Jill series which is a follow-on from the original Jill books by Ruby Ferguson. Jill Crewe has just returned from spending some time learning dressage in a riding school in Germany. She goes to Chatton where her best friend Ann has been living in Pool Cottage and has been looking after two of her horses. In spite of now owning three horses, Balius, Copperplate and Black Comedy Jill had decided that she wants a dressage horse.Jill’s mother giv...

This is the first book in Jemma Spark's Jill Series which is a follow-on from the original Jill books by Ruby Ferguson. JIll Crewe is about to reluctantly go off to secretarial college to pursue a dismal career in office work when her mother announces that she is re-marrying and her fiance lives in the Scottish highlands in a castle. This is the stuff that dreams are made of and Jill learns that there is not only an ancient castle but stables, an indoor riding arena, and a cross-country co...

The magazine, Riding, has run a competition and six winners have been selected to go to Blainstock Castle for two weeks to compete for the grand prize, a weekend for two at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. The winners include Charles Ravenscroft, Susan Barington-Brown, Lettie Lonsdale, Janet Fawley, Patrick Huntingdon and Rennie Jordan. They take part in a number of competitions and a grand prize winner is selected. While they're still at the castle, a couple from America and their hor...

This is the sixth book in Jemma Spark’s Jill series which is a follow-on from the original Jill books by Ruby Ferguson. Jill Crewe has managed to acquire a fantastic dressage horse, which in the 1960s in England was an almost impossible feat. Never one to stand still and congratulate herself on her own achievements, she is now pursuing a career as a journalist for Horse and Hound.She is given a chance to write an article and with the aid of her best friend Ann they set off to Londo...

This is the ninth book in Jemma Spark’s Jill series which is a follow-on from the original Jill books by Ruby Ferguson. Like the previous book in this series, Jill’s Ponies: Black Boy and Rapide this story is not narrated by Jill herself. It is set in Chatton and focuses on the fate of Black Boy and Rapide, Jill’s childhood ponies.Lavender Ellison-Heath, the present owner of Black Boy, Morgan Pevensy the owner of Rapide and young Ruby Swope continue to have pony adventures. There i...

Jill goes to Australia to go showjumping with the Heyward family. She had been told that her father died when she was a young child, but shortly before she leaves her mother tells her that her father is still alive and living in Australia. Struggling to cope with the idea of having a real father and having been deceived throughout her childhood, she is thrown into the family life of the Heywards. Norah Heyward, a young woman of her own age, has a new boyfriend who is deemed entirely unsuit...

This is the eighth book in Jemma Spark’s Jill series which is a follow-on from the original Jill books by Ruby Ferguson. This book is not narrated by Jill herself and begins with the lives of Black Boy and Rapide, her ponies when she was a child. Black Boy belongs to Lavender Ellison-Heath, whose social climbing mother wants her to win in gymkhanas so that she can gain entry into the county set. Rapide belongs to Morgan Pevensy, the youngest child of the Duke and Duchess of Tolkington. Mor...

This is the third book in Jemma Spark’s Jill series which is a follow-on from the original Jill books by Ruby Ferguson. Jill Crewe is going pony trekking, just as she had done some years previously. She had met a marvellous family called the Merrivales when she stayed at their farm in Dartmoor. Now, she is returning to trek around the moor with them.Before she leaves on this innocent adventure, she becomes entangled with a mysterious young man called Mungo. He insinuates himself in...

This is the fourth book in Jemma Spark’s Jill series which is a follow-on from the original Jill books by Ruby Ferguson. Jill Crewe returns to her childhood home, Pool Cottage in Chatton, Oxfordshire.Her best friend arrives back in the village, woeful and depressed having experienced a doomed romance. They get to meet up with old friends, including Diana and James Bush and Jill’s cousin, Cecilia. Other people from the past pop up, including Susan Pike, Amanda Applewood, and Mercy D...

This is the seventh book in Jemma Spark’s Jill series which is a follow-on from the original Jill books by Ruby Ferguson. Jill Crewe finishes her Horsemasters course at Porlock Vale and takes her new friend Dieter to pick up Copperplate from Tatiana’s stables. Then, back to Pool Cottage and there is a joyous reunion with Ann. Jill has a meeting with her literary agent in London and is upset about the latest development with her pony books.Then they head up to Scotland for Christmas...