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.

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...

A Sister's Obsession

Marriage and Mary ann

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

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...

Life and Mary Ann

It is impossible to imagine Mary Ann Shaughnessy as anything but an enchanting, aggravating and utterly natural child, possessed of an ou...

Tilly Trotter

Tha Catherine Cookson Collection.

Det onda arvet - Släkten Mallen (svéd nyelvű)

The Iron Facade

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

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...

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...

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 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 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 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 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...

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 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 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 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 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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 ...

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...

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 ...

Nur eine Frau

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

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...

Riley

There were many who said of Riley (as he was almost always known) that in his early life he appeared to be older than his years. With a h...

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...

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...

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 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 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 Mallen Trilogy

Thomas Mallen of High Banks Hall had many sons, most of them bastards. But to all of them he passed on his mark - a distinctive flash of ...

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...

Zeit ohne Worte

The Maltese Angel

A House Divided

Throughout her life Catherine Cookson was one of the world's most beloved writers. Her books sold millions of copies, and when she died i...

The Solace of Sin

When Connie buys a house on the moors, she has to negotiate with the abrupt Vincent O'Connor. She soon discovers that mystery is a way of...

The Black Velvet Gown

It is the story of a mother and a daughter, often at odds with each other, facing the need to challenge and fight the prejudice of an age...

THE HARROGATE SECRET HER MAJOR NEW NOVEL

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

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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 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 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 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...

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 Girl

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

The Glass Virgin

Annabella Lagrange was the only child of a wealthy family,owern of glass-works in the ....

The Parson's Daughter

The Victorian Sabbath was not without its difficulties for some of those committed to its observance...

Our Kate

The Our Kate of the title is not Catherine Cookson, but her mother, around whom the autobiography revolves. Despite her faults, Kate emer...

The Gillyvors

A century or so ago there lived at Heap Hollow Cottage, situated near Fellburn in County Durham, a man and a woman and their six children...

The Upstart

"The Upstart" is set in 1898 in England and it is a captivating tale of love and betrayal. This is a time when ones economic standing def...

The Unbaited Trap

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 traged...