British author Jilly Cooper, famous for novels of sex and snobbery, dies at 88

LONDON (Reuters) -Jilly Cooper, the British author of novels such as "Rivals" and "Riders" whose 1980s bestsellers were a blend of sex, satire and British snobbery, has died aged 88, her agent said in a statement on Monday. Cooper sold 11 million copies of her books in Britain alone. From the mid-1980s, her raunchy novels depicting the romantic adventures of an upper-class set of characters in the fictional county of Rutshire gained increasing commercial success.