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Catherine Cookson
In a house of secrets, can good prevail?
Though Sarah comes from the wrong end of the Fifteen Streets, she's always been determined to make the best of her life…
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Kathleen Jones
Catherine Cookson was one of the most successful novelists of all time. This new, illustrated biography tells the story of her life. and the search for a father who abandoned…
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Born into the bleak industrial heartland of Tyneside in 1906, an illegitimate child, with the courage to escape and discover her true self, denies her people, reaches rock bottom, and…
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As an only child, Annabella LaGrange lived a privileged, secluded existence, and had come to accept that her wealthy parents lived at opposite ends of their magnificent country estate and…
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Mary Ann is a young girl living in poverty in a dockland tenement on Tyneside, from the ages of eight to thirteen. She is determined to bring about a better…
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Growing up amid the strict mores and stultifying traditions of Edwardian England’s Redford Hall, Annabella Lagrange is forced to hide her father’s terrible secret and turns to her beloved cousin…
The year is 1886, and Ward Gibson is a prosperous young farmer who becomes fascinated by Stephanie McQueen, a dancer. His marriage to her divides his home village, as he…
From British publishing phenomenon Catherine Cookson comes two beloved books– Hamilton and Goodbye Hamilton –now available in the United States for the first time and offered in one convenient volume.
In this sequel to Catherine Cookson’s collection of essays and poems, Let Me Make Myself Plain , she offers a further selection of thoughts, recollections and observations on life -…
From Simon & Schuster, The Parson’s Daughter is Catherine Cookson’s novel of one woman’s questions of womanhood, marriage, and tragedy. In nineteenth century Northumberland, Nancy Ann Howard agrees to marry…
Catherine Cookson author of The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award, leading to her readership quickly spread worldwide, with her many bestselling novels establishing her as one of the…
Invalided out of the army at the end of the war, Matthew wonders what place there is in a new social order for a blind man. He has the sympathy…
Originally published: Great Britain: Macdonald, 1952.
Originally published in Great Britain by Bantam Press … as the Gillyvors –T.p. verso.
This is a collection of Catherine Cookson’s first three Bill Bailey novels. Bill Bailey came into the life of young widow Fiona Nelson and her three children as a lodger…
It had never been the best of marriages. There was something potentially explosive just below the surface of life at Wearcill House, but when that explosion came it was in…
Bill and Fiona Bailey are eagerly awaiting the arrival of their first child…
This novel tells the story of a young girl, Lizzie, who was rescued from the streets and given the chance of a new life. Lizzie blossomed into a woman with…
John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife, a son, friends, but he was isolated from all the people and events about him by the tragedy of his…
Maggie Gallacher had all but read the print off the elegant, gold-trimmed card. An invitation from the Duke of Moorshire to an evening at Lea Hall? She could still scarcely…
The events of this novel, set on the Northumbrian coast in the 1960s, take place over one day, a period during which everyone involved discovers that the consequences of an…
This collection is set against the background of places already familiar to Catherine Cookson’s readers - the North-East, the South Coast and London, with a time-scale stretching from the 1920’s…
Although Bridget told herself she had loved Lawrence for years, could she trust him? She decided that there were apt grounds for doubt of his loyalty, so she called off…
At the end of the Second World War, Matthew Wallingham returns to his family home, blinded by his injuries and uncertain about his future.
When Ellen Jebeau’s husband dies in 1926, he leaves behind a legacy of debt and empty dreams. However, Ellen is determined that her son Joseph should have everything in life…
Mary, who lived well, had beautiful clothes - who worked because she wanted to, not because she had to… When John O'Brien fell in love with Mary Llewellyn, he knew…
Even the approach of Christmas 1913 fails to excite the restless Agnes Conway. There are dark secrets in her father’s past, which come to light when her younger sister becomes…
Fanny McBride was a cheerful and indomitable Tyneside widow with a large, cheerful family. Being a woman of resource, Fanny took on a job at the local ‘Ladies’, which was…
Opens with a seventeen-year-old Mary Ann struggling with the painful business of growing up as her first love, Corny Boyle, leaves for America. This work follows her through her eventual…
It is the early 1920s and Kate Hannigan is happily married to Dr Rodney Prince, who has willingly accepted her illegitimate daughter, Annie, as the eldest child of their household…
Fourteen-year-old Marie Anne Lawson, fleeing from something she could not bear to see, fell and broke her ankle. She was discovered by a local man, known as the branded man…
Vanessa Ratcliffe is daughter of one of the town’s richest men and her provocative manner often draws eyes in her direction. Angus Cotton is a rough diamond, living in filthy…
Daniel Stewart wants to be a doctor, but his father won’t pay for studies, spending his money on drink and on making babies with his second wife. When his father…
Rosie finds it hard to cope with her eldest sister’s over-possessive nature. Since the death of their mother Beatrice has been insufferably dominating, taking over the running of the house…
One of the best-loved authors in North America takes a long-term look at a newly wealthy family in turn-of-the-century England and the clashes of will between the upstart head of…
This volume contains two novels by Catherine Cookson, The Long Corridor and Kate Hannigan .
Born into poverty, Katie Mulholland is forced to find work as a maid in the house of a wealthy family. But Katie’s fate changes course when one man offers her…
But when their father dies unexpectedly their security is threatened, and Beatrice must lay plans to protect this most prized possession. How will the sister’s survive now their father is…
Originally published: London: Bantam, 2001.
Dr Rodney Prince cannot fail to be drawn towards Kate Hannigan. Her beauty and intelligence far outshine that of his hard, brittle, calculating wife. But as an unlikely romance blossoms…
From bestselling saga author Catherine Cookson, this gripping historical novel is an epic novel of triumph over adversity. If you like Dilly Court or Katie Flynn, you'll love Catherine Cookson.
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From bestselling saga author Catherine Cookson, this is gripping historical novel about family, secrets and love. Readers of Dilly Court or Katie Flynn will love Catherine Cookson.
Even the approach…
At 21, Jinny’s alone in the world, working with a marked lack of job satisfaction in the typing pool of a big engineering firm in Tyneside. However, things are about…
Originally published: Great Britain: Bantam Press, 1991.
The day Joe Remington brought his new bride to Fell Rise, he had already sensed she might not settle easily into his home just outside the Tyneside town of Fellburn.
Another novel from Catherine Cookson, whose previous books have sold over 80 million copies worldwide. The Harrogate Secret is the story of Frederick Musgrave, a young boy from Tyneside, and…
_______________________ Humour, toughness, resolution and generosity are Cookson virtues .
‘Humour, toughness, resolution and generosity are Cookson virtues . In the specialised world of women’s popular fiction, Cookson has created her own territory.’ - Helen Dunmore, The Times Everyone, including…
