The genius of Jilly Cooper, queen of British bonkbusters

 

Her novels are smutty, sexist and snobbish. Everything about the 86-year-old’s new release suggests it’s the sort of book that literary London will sneer at. It almost certainly will not

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The genius of Jilly Cooper, queen of British bonkbusters
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bonk

/bɒŋk/

INFORMAL

verb

1. 1.

   hit or strike (someone or something).

   "he bonked his head on the plane's low bulkhead"
2. 2.

   BRITISH

   have sex with (someone).

   "I don't think that bonking the boss is a wise career strategy"

noun

1. 1.

   an act or the sound of hitting someone or something.

   "give it a bonk with a hammer"
2. 2.

   BRITISH

   an act or instance of having sex.

Bonkbuster

Description

Bonkbuster is a term coined in 1989 by British writer Sue Limb to describe a subgenre of commercial romance novels in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as their subsequent miniseries adaptations. They have also been referred to as sex 'n' shopping or shopping and fucking novels. Wikipedia