Catherine Cookson művei

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Dr. Rodney Prince és nagyravágyó felesége, Stella boldogtalan házasságban töltik napjaikat. A doktor egy újszülött világra segítésénél is...

Matty Doolin - Obw 2. - Obw 2.

Matty is fifteen and is leaving school in a few weeks' time. He wants to work with animals, and would like to get a job on a farm. But hi...

Let Me Make Myself Plain - A Personal Anthology

Catherine Cookson has assembled in this work a collection of her essays, poetry and personal reflections which are seen as a distillation...

Katie Mulholland

The Garment

The blind years

The silent lady

Rosie of the river

A Sister's Obsession

Hamilton

Maisie could never be quite sure when she first met Hamilton, but most likely it was when she started talking to herself as a lonely seve...

The Bondage of Love

A House Divided

At the end of the Second World War, Matthew Wallingham returns to his family home, blinded by his injuries and uncertain about his future...

A Dinner of Herbs

A legacy of hatred can be a terrible force in life, over which not even an enduring love and all the fruits of material success may preva...

Kate Hannigan's Girl

In the early 1920s, Kate is happily married to Dr Rodney Prince who has taken into his home her illegitimate daughter Annie. Needless to ...

Heritage of Folly

The Batleys and the Cadwells owned neighbouring farms on the beautiful, wild Northumbrian coast. But there all similarity ended, and enmi...

The Girl from Leam Lane

Born to an impoverished young Tyneside woman in 1906, Catherine Cookson lived a life marked by cruelty and neglect. At the age of 27, she...

The harrogate secret

Young Frederick Musgrave was never more agile than when navigating his sculler across the waters of the Tyne between the busy seaports of...

The Cultured Handmaiden

At twenty-one, Jinny Brownlow's life is not going as well as she had hoped. She's working at a dead-end typing job at an engineering firm...

The Unbaited Trap

Beautiful young widow Cissie Thorpe sensed it was wrong to accept the attentions of her employer, brilliant lawyer John Emmerson. But it ...

The Iron Facade

Prudence Dudley is a woman with everything - looks, brains, a successful career as a novelist. But the emotional disaster which followed ...

The golden sraw

It all began with a straw hat. A large broad-brimmed hat, dyed in an elusive mixture of colors to produce a distinctive shade of pale gol...

The Golden Straw

It all began with a straw hat. A large broad-brimmed hat, dyed in an elusive mixture of colors to produce a distinctive shade of pale gol...

A Ruthless Need

Even in the heat of battle, Geoff Fulton would always carry with him the memory of the night he was on leave, when his timely interventio...

Rosie of the River

When Fred Carpenter suggests to his wife, Sally, that they take a boating holiday on the Norfolk Broads, she is filled with trepidation. ...

The Cinder Path

The cinder path which led from the Northumberland farmhouse would always symbolise defeat for Charlie MacFell. People saw him as a born l...

The Tinker's Girl

Close to her fifteenth birthday, Jinnie Howlett, a reluctant inmate of a northern workhouse, was offered a position as a maid-of-all-work...

The Bonny Dawn

The events of this novel, set on the Northumbrian coast in the 1960s, take place over one day, a period during which everyone involved di...

The Obsession

It is Beatrice Steel's 21st birthday party. Since her mother's death she has run her father's home, Pine Hurst. When he unexpectedly dies...

The Lady on my left

Alison Read, orphaned when she was two years old, had for some years lived and worked with Paul Aylmer, her appointed guardian. Paul, an ...

The Simple Soul and Other Stories

This warm-hearted collection of stories are the last unpublished works of fiction written by Catherine Cookson. This treasure trove of...

The Upstart

The Upstart is a new historical novel from Catherine Cookson set amidst the roiling social currents of rural England at the turn of the c...

The Solace of Sin

From the first moment she saw the house on the moors north of Hexham, Constance Stapleton knew she could live there, despite its isolatio...

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The Unbaited Trap

John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife, a son, and friends, but he was isolated by the tragedy of his past. Then he met Cissie, an...

The Bondage of Love

Years ago Bill Bailey had met and married Fiona, a young widow with her own family. The Baileys made their home in the Tyneside town of F...

Zeit ohne Worte

My Beloved Son

Ellen Jebeau married a man who did little but dream, and who then died with debt his only legacy. Whatever else her marriage had lacked, ...

The Maltese Angel

Ward Gibson knew what was expected of him by the village folk, and especially by the Mason family, whose daughter Daisy he had known all ...

Nur eine Frau

Sarah, ein armes, schönes Mädchen aus dem Arbeiterviertel einer enlischen Hafenstadt, liebt einen Mann aus besseren Kreisen. Allen Warnun...

Tilly Trotter wed

Tilly Trotter has devotedly served Mark Sopwith at Highfield Manor for twelve years. His wife in all but name, theirs is a scandalous yet...

A Grand Man

'Me da's a grand man!' Mary Ann Shaughnessy has spoken; question her who dare. For although Mary Ann may look quite an ordinary small gir...

The first in an engrossing new trilogy

Set in the Tyneside town of Fellburn, a novel in which Fiona Nelson advertises for a lodger to make ends meet, and into her life steps Bi...

The Black Velvet Gown

There would be times when Riah Millican came to regret that her husband had learned to read and write, and then shared his knowledge with...

Just a Saying. A Final Personal Anthology

The gambling man

Marriage and Mary ann

With barely weeks to go to her wedding, Mary Ann Could scarcely give a moment's thought to the plans...

The Girl

The Girl is a book definately worth reading. The characters are very real and believable, and the heroine is absolutely charming. This bo...

Tilly Trotter

Tha Catherine Cookson Collection.

Maggie Rowan

This is the story of the mining folk of County Durham; a story rich in human pathos in the portrayal of the families and homes of the men...

Tilly Trotter: An Omnibus

An epic trilogy set during the reign of Queen Victoria. It follows the fortunes of a young girl from a small village in Tyneside, to a ne...

The Whip

Emma inherited her father's skill with the whips and knives which he used in his act in an early-Victorian travelling show. This strange ...

The Round Tower, Colour Blind

Provocative 16-year-old Vanessa was a member of the powerful and avaricious Ratcliffe family, and Angus Cotton a rough diamond who lived ...

Tilly Trotter widowed

The Menagerie

The Broadhursts were a mining family and, to outsiders, they appeared to be happy, loyal and united. But it was Jinny – wife, mother, sis...

The Thursday Friend

Hannah and Humphrey Drayton seem to be happily married. Yet Hannah has reached the stage where she can't stand her husband. Every Thursda...

Colour Blind

The Dwelling Place

This is the story of orphaned Cissie Brodie who does everything she can to care for her younger siblings. They are forced to live in cave...

The Mallen Girl

Even as a child Barbara was beaufiful. But as her beauty grew, so did the affliction which shadowed it. She was becoming more and more de...

The Gambling Man

Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler's luck. From the day he was born, his mother had known that Rory would be the one to ...

The Silent Lady

The story begins with a shocking revelation, delivered by a disheveled woman who presents herself at the offices of a respectable law fir...