Catherine Cookson művei

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

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The Iron Facade

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

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 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...

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This warm-hearted collection of stories are the last unpublished works of fiction written by Catherine Cookson.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

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...

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

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 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...

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 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 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...

The Thursday Friend

On the face of it, Hannah and Humphrey were happily married. But after years of tyranny and loneliness, Hannah could no longer bear the s...

The Long Corridor

T outsiders, Dr Paul Higgins's life appeared to be happy and contented. Everyone had a good world for him, and his home life seemed to be...

THE BLACK VELVET GOWN Her most powerful novel yet

There would be limes when Riah Millican came lo regret that her miner husband had learned lo read and write, and then shared that knowled...

The Blind Years A NOVEL

Bridget Gether's parents were killed in the wartime Blitz so she had lived with the Overmeers at Balderstone, their sprawling property in...

Hannah Massey

Proud and canny, ignorant and intensely ambitious, Hannah Massey is a born ruler. Her kingdom may be only a working-class household in Co...

Justice is a woman

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 th...

THE GOLDEN STRAW HER MAJOR NEW HISTORICAL NOVEL

The Golden Straw,as it would be named, was a large, broad-brimmed hat presented to Emily Pearson by her long-time friend and employer Mab...

The Hamilton Trilogy - Hamilton; Goodbye Hamilton; Harold

Hamilton: First published in 1984, this is the first of a Catherine Cookson trilogy. Maisie had probably first met Hamilton when she star...

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...

The gambling man

The Lady on my Left

Alison Read, orphaned at the age of two, had for some years lived and worked with Paul Aylmer; her appointed guardian. Paul, an experienc...

The Unibated 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...

The Black Candle

Bridget Dean Mordaunt was a woman of consequence in her own part of the world. Inheriting her father's businesses at the age of nineteen,...

The Round Tower

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

The Wingless Bird

Even the approach of Christmas, 1913, fails to excite the restless Agnes Conway, the twenty-two-year-old manager of her feckless father's...

Miss Martha Mary Crawford

At the Habitation, a large and decaying riverside house in wild country twenty miles from Newcastle, the Crawford family eked out an exis...

Roise 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. ...