Catherine Cookson művei - 3. oldal

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. ...

The Iron Facade & House of Men

This volume contains two novels by Catherine Cookson. In The Iron Facade, a scorned woman attempts to escape her life, but ends up at a c...

Just a Saying. A Final Personal Anthology

Jenwich Houses

High above the river stood the small terrace of miner's cottages known as Fenwick Hoeses...

The invisible cord

It was a white wedding, but it was not a love-match. Annie Cooper married Georgie McCabe for one reason only: she was expecting his child...

The whip

Emma Molinero's dying father ,a circus performer ,had sent his beloved daughter to live with an unknown grandmother,not realizing that he...

The obsession

Rooney

Rooney by Catherine Cookson "You're a lucky man, Rooney," his friends kept telling him. As he watched them struggle to feed a large fami...

Branded Man

14 year-old Marie, youngest daughter of a prosperous Northumbrian family...

The Upstart

Suddenly risen to power and influence ,Samuel Fairbrother ,manufacturer and retailer of boots,shoes and clogs ,decided that his new stati...

The blind years

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...

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 Year of the Virgins

Struggling to maintain a facade of family harmony for the sake of their religious beliefs and three grown children, Winifred and Daniel C...

The Month

The Parson's Daughter - The Cultured Handmaiden - The Black Velvet Gown

The Moth

The Bonny Dawn

The Garment

Plainer Still

In Plainer Still ,she reveals many of the qualities that allow her to draw upon the great inner strength she needs to continue the battle...

Tilly Trotter Wed

Beautiful, bewitching Tilly served Mark devotedly for twelve years -his wife in all but name. But now he is dead...

The rag nymph

The House of Women

Vanessa Ratcliffe was just sixteen - and even though she had a convent education she had a provocative manner that drew envious eyes in h...

The Golden Straw

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

The man who cried

Across the small space of the cottage...

Blue Baccy

A roaring tale of smuggling and hair's breadth escapes...

Wingless Bird

The approach of Christman,1913,with rumours of war beginning to rumble through the land, only serves to increase the dissatisfaction felt...

The Mallen Streak

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 wh...

The Desert Crop

Money was tight in the farming communities around Fellburn in the 1880s, so when Hector Stewart announced to his children that he was to ...

The Devil and Mary Ann

When Mary Ann Shaughnessy was sent from her native to a hiogh-class convent boarding school in the south of England,the idea in her benef...

Katie Mulholland

Some women are destined to arouse in men either fierce hatred, or an equally fierce desire...

Tilly Trotter Widowed

First a rich man's mistres, then a frontier wife, and now a widow... With her two children, half-blind Willy and her adopted daughter, Jo...

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 Glass Virgin

Annabella was the only child of a welthy family, owners of a glass-works in the North-East of England. When she was seven, she thought...

The Tinker's Girl

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 Thursday Friend