Tackle!
By Jilly Cooper
Bantam £22
When Tackle! with its saucy cover shot of a buff bloke in tightie whities thudded onto my mat, I thought I could predict the plot without even having to gallop through the 424 pages.
For her new book, the first since Mount! in 2016, our greatest living Englishwoman novelist is balls-deep into the beautiful game.
It is set in Rutshire. It stars Rupert Campbell-Black and would include all the traditional tropes – as one of his all-time novels.
