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 course.
Real life intrudes upon the fairy tale fantasy when Jill meets her step-father's nephew Mark Lansdowne , a well known three-day eventer, who is unimpressed with the arrival of Jill and her mother.

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 drives down south. During the journey she stops over at different places meeting some friends and contacts of her step-father, Richard. She begins her position as a private secretary and gets mixed up in various awkward situations.

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 into her life and somewhat reluctantly she agrees that he tag along on the trip to Dartmoor.

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 Dulbottle. Best of all Jill finds her childhood ponies Black Boy and Rapide. Jill rescues a horse that is being ill-treated and then goes steeplechasing.

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 gives birth to a baby boy with her second husband, and this significantly changes the line of inheritance, cutting out Richard’s nephew, Mark Lansdowne. Aside from this viper’s nest of family politics there is huge anticipation as a film company is coming to the castle to film Macbeth. The character of Banquo is to be played by Jill’s friend, the filmstar Beau Carlisle. Jill is taken on to work with the horses in the film and many devious plots are hatched and executed.

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 London to interview and photograph the Clutterbuck sisters. This leads to the opportunity of going to Porlock Vale, the famous riding centre in Exmoor. Jill is to take part in a short dressage course and write an article. This leads to more exciting opportunities and adventures.

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. There have been some dramatic and unfortunate events at the castle. Big decisions have to be made about the future of Blainstock Castle and the stables. Mark Lansdowne, Jill’s most unfavourite step-relative turns up and she finds herself taunting him and making trouble for everyone.

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. Morgan’s life is blighted by being born into a horsey family and not fitting in. She doesn’t mind ponies and riding, but she is not horse-made like the others.

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 is a pony club rally, a point-to-point at Grassmere, a huge Christmas party at Pevensy Park and Tiddington Hunter Trials.

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 horse trainer arrive, having rented the Dower House for a year. Jill has just returned from Australia, where she was on a showjumping tour. She helps with the organisation of the prize winners' activities, but finds herself caught up in the drama of the new arrivals and has to make some drastic decisions.

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 unsuitable by her family and JIll is drawn into the drama as she struggles in an environment that is totally different to anything that she has experienced before.

She attends a showjumping event at Bowral and then goes to visit her father in the Snowy Mountains. They go deep into the bush to hunt for an escaped mare who has joined the wild bush horses. Riding through the mountains she experiences life far beyond civilisation.

This book includes a comprehensive list of 'Who's Who' in the Jemma Spark series of Jill books. There are also three short stories. The first - ‘Jill and the Mystery of the Missing Horse’ has only previously been available as an e-book. The second - 'The Engagement Party', is the tale of Cecilia, Jill’s cousin’s engagement party held at Blainstock Castle. The guests arrive on Thursday evening. They go trekking in the Highlands, sailing and canoeing on the loch. There is a fancy dress party on Saturday night, and on the following morning, one of the guests cannot be found. A full-scale search ensues. Jill, Ann Derry and Dinah Dean set their minds to discovering the whereabouts of the missing guest and who is responsible for her sinister disappearance. The third, narrated by Susan Barrington-Brown, who was originally a character in Josephine Pullein