Category: Horse books for adults
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Walker, Fiona
About the author Fiona Walker (1969 -) narrowly escaped being called Mopsa, after a shepherdess in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. An early rider and Pony Club attendee, she said: ‘From the moment I spotted a fat Thelwell pony through a gateway and screamed “yes please, please, please!” I lived to ride. Throughout early childhood, I…
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Walker, Elaine
About the author Elaine Walker is a writer of fiction, poetry and non fiction. She owns Appaloosas, rides Western and keeps her horses barefoot. And she is also lead singer of a rock band called Two Suns. She writes on and researches equine culture, and her particular interest is William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, about…
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Tey, Josephine
About the author Elizabeth Mackintosh (1896-1952) wrote under the names Gordon Daviot and Josephine Tey. Born in Inverness, she was educated at the Anstey Physical Training College in Birmingham as a physical training instructress. When she had to give up teaching to return to Scotland and look after her father, she began to write. Her…
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Stewart, Mary
About the author Mary Rainbow (1916–2014) was born in Sunderland, the daughter of a vicar. She was educated at the University of Durham, where she graduated with a first in English. She returned to Durham during the Second World War and taught there, meeting her husband, Frederick Stewart, at a VE party in 1945. Frederick…
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Pitman, Jenny
About the author Jenny Pitman is another author from the racing world who has followed the track first blazed by Dick Francis, and followed since with variable success by John Francome. After a very successful career racing (Jenny Pitman was the first woman trainer to win the Grand National – in 1983, with Corbière) she has…
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Pattison, Rikki
About the author Rikki Pattison is a British author of romantic novels. Finding the booksEasy in the UK, but can be a little trickier in America. Bibliography Pride of Blewburton Piatkus, London, 1984, 197 pp.WH Allen (Target Books), London, 1985, pb, 197 pp.Chivers, Bath, 1986, large print, 244 pp. Winner’s Luck Piatkus, London, 1985, 238…
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O’Donoghue, Maureen
About the author I’m struggling to find any biographical information on this author. She’s written other novels with a rural background, and, as far as I’m aware, one that involves horses, Winner. Finding the bookEasy to find. Bibliography Winner Michael Joseph, 1988, 416 pp.Penguin, London, 1989, 439 pp. Macha Sheridan is the orphaned daughter of…
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Nicholls, Derek
About the author Derek Nicholls (b.1937) has written a series of historical novels based on the racing industry. It might well be that more of his stories have some equine content and could be included in this site. If you can help on that, or can provide some definitive biographical information about the author, please get…
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Milner, Mordaunt
About the author Sir Mordaunt Milner lived in South Africa. He was an acknowledged expert on the breeding of the Thoroughbred, and had two books published by equestrian publishers J A Allen on the subject: Thoroughbred Breeding (1987) and The Godolphin Arabian (1990). He bred horses himself. He bought the Natte Valleij Farm in Paarl,…