Catherine Cookson

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Title: Katie Mulholland: Description:
Set against a Tyneside background, this novel features an illegitimate girl who made a rich and powerful impression on all the men and women around her, forging an empire for herself amidst the coalmines and shipyards, founding a dynasty in defiance of social conventions.

Title: The Bondage Of Love: Description:
Only after returning from his funeral did Fiona Bailey realize how much she would miss Davey. Towards the end of his life she had discovered qualities about him she had previously overlooked. Now Fiona and her husband must look after Davey's son, Sammy, who may not find it easy to settle in.

Title: The Solace Of Sin: Description:
As soon as she saw Shekinah Hall on the wild moorlands near Hexham, Constance Stapleton was attracted to it. With her marriage to Jim on the brink of collapse, Connie sensed that the move would initiate the separation from Jim she knew was inevitable. Connie was told she must negotiate with Vincent O'Connor if she wanted to buy the house, although his abrupt manner took her by surprise. She was to discover that mystery was a way of life for Vincent and began to rely on him increasingly as she settled into her new routine. However, when shocking revelations about her husband came to light, she realised that her life at Shekinah could be under threat...

Title: The Mallen Litter: Description:
reasonable

Title: Pure As The Lily: Description:
reasonable

Title: The Tide Of Life: Description:
poor condition but readable

Title: The Round Tower: Description:
poor condition but readable

Title: Feathers In The Fire: Description:
poor condition but readable

Title: The Cinder Path: Description:
The cinder path which led from the Northumberland farmhouse would always symbolise defeat for Charlie MacFell; the boyhood humiliations from his brutal father, and the weaknessess that made Charlie a born loser - a nice chap who always got the thick end of the stick. But when the First World War swept him into the holocaust of the Western Front, a new Charlie emerged - a man in search of inner strength and integrity, with a woman who would stand by him...

Title: Slinky Jane: Description:
reasonable

Title: The Golden Straw: Description:
The Golden Straw,as it would be named,was a large,broad-brimmed hat presented to Emily Pearson by her long time friend abd emplyer Mabel Arkwright,milliner and modiste.And before long it was to her emplyer that Emily owed the gift of the business itself,for Mabel was in poor health and had come to rely more and more on Emily before her untimely death in 1880. While on holiday in France,Emily and the Golden Straw attracted the eye of Paul steerman,a guest at the hotel,and throughout his stay he paid her unceasing attention.But Paul Steerman was not all he seemed to be and he was to bring nothing but disgrace and tragedy to Emily,precipitating a series of events that would influence the destiny of not only her children but her grandchildren too. The Golden Straw conceived on a panoramic scale,brilliantly portrays a whole rich vein of English life from the heyday of the Victorian era to the stormy middle years of the present century.It represents a fresh triumph for this great storyteller whose work is deservedly loved and enjoyed throughout the world

Title: The Obsession: Description:
Beatrice Steel,always over-possessive abouther family home,Pine Hurst,has become insufferably dominating since the death of her mother,ruling her father,her sisters and the servants with an iron hand.Of course,she constantly has to remind herself,it is her father who actually owns the house,but it is the thought that he might remarry,thus making another woman mistress of Pine Hurst,that fills her with dread. Then,unexpectedly,her father dies and,when the family gather for the reading of the wil,nothing she hears matches her expectations.It is then she realises that her security is threatened and that she must begin to lay plans to protect her position and allow her to enjoy her most prized possession.

Title: Colour Blind: Description:
When Bridget McQueen announces she is getting married to a sailor, her family are delighted - until they see him and realise he is coloured. Her marriage fires a family feud that was to extend into the next generation

Title: The Upstart: Description:
Suddenly risen to power and influence, Samuel Fairbrother, manufacturer and retailer of boots, shoes and clogs, decided that his new station in life deserved a more imposing residence, so when a thirty-four-roomed mansion, situated on the outskirts of Fellburn, became available, he made an offer, take it or leave it, and found himself the owner of a property he saw as a fitting display of his wealth and a suitable reward for his newly gained position in the business community. And that was not all, for together with the house came a clutch of servants, headed by the butler, Maitland, who at once made plain his belief that Samuel, far from being the gentleman his predecessor had been, was no more than an upstart. So began a clash of will between master and man, at which Samuel Fairbrother discovered he was at a disadvantage, for Maitland, urbane and apparently well educated, was well skilled in the art of maintaining a position of indispensability. Fairbrother, for his part, was only too aware that he dare not dispense with Maitland's services and was forced to conclude that it was a conflict he could not easily win. And so an uneasy truce was declared between them. As the years went by and the century turned, Samuel Fairbrother saw his children, one by one, leave the big house to make lives of their own - all except his eldest daughter, Janet, who, by means of a legacy, was enabled to shape the destiny of her father's scattered family and effect the reconciliation that he thought was impossible. The Upstart is yet another example of Catherine Cookson's supreme ability to capture the conflict of class in the society of the late nineteenth century in a brilliant novel of page-turning readability. For more than forty years, she has enjoyed a popularity matched by few writers of her time. The Upstart will surely enhance that popularity and be enjoyed by her millions of readers throughout the world.

Title: My Beloved Son: Description:
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, however, she had her son Joseph. She resolved he should have all in life she had missed and to achieve that end, she would stop at nothing. It was Sir Arthur Jebeau, her late husband's brother, who came to her aid, and soon Ellen and Joseph were living at the old family seat at Screehaugh. It was a convenient arrangement, one which Ellen was not slow to recognise could work to her advantage, for Sir Arthur was a widower and Screehaugh had no mistress... That was in 1926, but the working out of so many increasingly intertwined destinies would continue for twenty more years and only come to final resolution with Joseph Jebeau's escape from the traumatic heritage of his mother's ruthless ambition and his emergence as his own true self. My Beloved Son will rank among Catherine Cookson's most compelling and deeply moving novels and her portrayal of Joseph Jebeau is as sensitive and percipient as any this well-loved author has achieved.

Title: The Tinker's Girl: Description:
When young Jinnie Howlett's widowed father, a tinker man, died a pauper, she was indeed fortunate already to be an inmate of a northern workhouse, for with no other relatives, she might otherwise have ended up on the streets, a fate for children of her age that was, in the latter years of the nineteenth century, all too common. When, close to her fifteenth birthday and after years of toil and drudgery and an unfortunate experience at a previous workplace, she was at last offered a position as a maid-of-all-work, she was left in no doubt that this second chance was also her last. Jinnie's employers were to be the Shalemans and her place of work Tollet's Ridge Farm, a bleakly isolated and run-down sheep farm way out beyond Allendale and towards the Cumbrian border. It was only a matter of weeks before she discovered that she had exchanged one kind of drudgery for another, for the Shaleman family - Rose, invalid wife of Pug and mother to Bruce and Hal - demanded so much of her that she almost became nostalgic about her years at the house, as she called it. Fortunately for Jinnie, however, Bruce soon recognised that there was more to this seemingly vulnerable girl than the other members of his family realised, and it was he who would defend her against the taunts and harassment of the brutish Pug and Hal. It was when, by accident, she became acquainted with Richard Baxton-Powell, who owed his life to Bruce, that Jinnie realised how different and tempting life was beyond her place of work; although later, when the persistent attention Richard paid her became too obtrusive, she was to understand that her growing confidence and maturity owed more to her life with the Shalemans than to any outside influence. It was then that Jinnie Howlett was suddenly thrust into womanhood, and the path to her own destiny became clear. Catherine Cookson's latest novel is a magnificent example of this most popular author's incomparable talent for characterisation, exploring as it does the life and fortunes of a spirited girl who lived in an age when it was customary for servant girls to do the bidding of their masters and remember their place. With its brilliant evocation of the period, it will be hugely enjoyed by her millions of readers all over the world.

Title: A Ruthless Need: Description:
Excellent story from one of the most famous authors

Title: The Solace Of Sin: Description:
As soon as she saw Shekinah Hall on the wild moorlands near Hexham, Consrance Stapleton was attracted to it.With her marraige to Jim now on the brink of collapse, Connie sensed that the move would initiate the separation from Jim she knew was inevitable. Connie was told she must negotiate with Vincent O'Connor if she wantd to buy the house, although his abrupt manner took him by surprise. She was to discover that mystery was a way of life for Vincent and began to rely on him increasingly as she settles onto her new routine. However, when shocking revelations about her husband came to light, she realised that her life at Shennikah could be under threat...

Title: A Ruthless Need: Description:
A Ruthless Need tells with power and perception the story of a girl who, given the chance of a new life, burgeons into a talented woman of ideals and expectations, and who comes to realise that she no longer needs the support of a man she once regarded as her saviour.

Title: The Bonny Dawn: Description:
Brid looked to the horizon, now entirely taken up with the haze of colour erupting over the line of the sea. She had not especially wanted to see the dawn, but she had wanted to be here with Joe. But now the dawn was showing her its worth, and she became still under the wonder of it. So beautiful was it, it was almost painful.

Title: A Ruthless Need: Description:
The story of a girl with poor beginnings, who, given the chance of a new life and siezing the opportunities it brought her, burgeoned into a talented woman of ideals and expectations

Title: The Rag Nymph: Description:
Millie Forester's advance through the years to womanhood is as gripping and socially concerned a historical novel as Catherine Cookson has ever written.

Title: The Harrogate Secret: Description:
Young Frederick Musgrave was never more agile than when navigating his sculler across the waters of the Tyne between the busy seaports of north and South Shields in 1843. Already his services were in demand as a carrier of messages and certain small packages for those whose activities made them the target of the Customs and Excise men. As well as agile, Freddie was also reckoned to be lucky, but on such a night as brought him to The Towers, the home of Mr Roderick Gallagher, both luck and courage were to be tested to the limit. From that night on, things really began to happen to Freddie, and the best of them came when he gained the friendship and patronage of Miss Maggie Hewett, who was to play a major role in shaping his life and fortunes. But he would still need all his luck and resoucefulness to esape the long shadow cast by Roderick Gallagher, whose power and influence threatened all who crossed his path...

Title: Tilly Trotter Wed: Description:
Romance

Title: The Thursday Friend: Description:
Romance

Title: Riley: Description:
There were many who said that Riley appeared to be older than his years. He finished school at an early age, leaving a harsh childhood behind him, brimful of optimism and secure in the knowledge that his teacher, Fred Beardsley, had faith in him. Neither of them could have envisaged at the time how their lives would be intertwined. Fred encouraged Riley, a gifted mimic, when he was offered a position at The Little Palace Theatre in Fellburn. And then Riley surprised Fred by forming a close friendship with leading lady, Nyrene Forbes-Mason, who was nurturing his burgeoning talent as an actor. What Riley hadn't told him was that he had hopes of the relationship developing into something more. Over the subsequent years, Fred observed with amazement Riley's rise to fame and fortune. As for his relationship with Nyrene, that did indeed change although not in the way that Riley had envisaged.

Title: The Lady On My Left: Description:
Alison Read, orphaned at the age of two, had for some years lived and worked with Paul Aylmer, her appointed guardian. Paul, an experienced antiques dealer whose business thrived in the south-coast town of Sealock, had come to rely on Alison, who had quickly learned the trade. But when he asked her to value the contents of Beacon Ride, a chain of events was set off that led to the exposure of a secret he had for years managed to conceal. As a result, Alison's relationship with Paul came under threat and she knew that only by confronting the situation head-on would her ambitions be realised. Part mystery, part love story, The Lady on my Left displays yet another facet of Catherine Cookson's remarkable talent.

Title: The Bonny Dawn: Description:
For seventeen year old Brid Stevens the day began at four o'clock on a summer morning, when her alarm clock roused her from a dream--filled sleep. She had an appointment to keep with Joe Lloyd, whom she had met at the weeky dance. On the cliff-top at Stockwell Hill, overlooking the sea, they were to watch the sun come up. What was to occur after that was to bring a day of such promise to a tragic end. The events of this powerful 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 innocent meeting between two young people are far more significant than the event itself.

Title: The Black Velvet Gown: Description:
Corgi, 1985

Title: Hamilton: Description:
This is one of Cooksons most unusual and beguiling novels.

Title: Harold: Description:
This is a sequel to Cooksons Hamilton stories

Title: Bill Bailey's Lot: Description:
The sequel to Bill Bailey

Title: Bill Bailey's Daughter: Description:
Completing the Bill Bailey trilogy

Title: The Man Who Cried: Description:
the traumatic journey of abel mason to find happiness with his son and escape the secrets and misery of his past life.

Title: Tilly Trotter: Description:
tilly trotter is the compelling story of a young girl living with her grandparents but hard time lie ahead

Title: Tilly Trotter Widowed: Description:
conclusion to the trilogy

Title: The Round Tower: Description:
the story of class struggle between angus cotton and vanessa ratcliffe

Title: The Whip: Description:
this is one of cooksons most powerful novels rich in character and incident and featuring emma as one of her most endearing heroines

Title: The Parson's Daughter: Description:
novel spanning the last qurter of the 19th century

Title: The Branded Man: Description:
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"" because of a disfigurement. This is the story of two women and the mysterious man who was to influence both their lives.

Title: Mary Ann Omnibus: V. 2: Description:
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 marriage to Corny, and the joys and trials of being a wife, and a mother to six-year-old twins, Rose Mary and David. From the Back Cover The Mary Ann Novels VOLUME 2 The eight novels featuring the popular, irrepressible Mary Ann Shaughnessy are for the first time collected into two volumes. Volume 2 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. It follows her eventual marriage to Corny, and the joys and trials of being a wife, and a mother to six-year-old twins, Rose Mary and David. Also available The MARY ANN novels Volume 1: A GRAND MAN THE LORD AND MARY ANN THE DEVIL AND MARY ANN LOVE AND MARY ANN

Title: The Black Candle: Description:
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, by the time she was twenty-three in 1880, she was running them as confidently as any man. Yet the path destiny required her to follow was not an easy one. Her feckless cousin Victoria became infatuated with Lionel Filmore, the fortune-hunting elder son of an old but impoverished family living in the decayed grandeur of Grove House. Bridget had no illusions about Lionel, but Victoria's happiness was paramount to her. So a pattern began to form that would shape the lives of generations to come, a pattern of some good and some great evil, but all of it inexorably linking Bridget ever more closely with the Filmores and their house. "The Black Candle" displays all of Catherine Cookson's narrative skills and shrewd perception of human strengths and frailties which have established her as our most widely-read and best-loved novelist. About the Author Catherine CooksonCatherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer - her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 - her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many best-selling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998.

Title: Bondage Of Love: Description:
years ago bill bailey had met and married fiona ,a young widow with her own family ,the baileys made thier home in the tyneside townof fellburn, ,where bills business prospered.fiona;s son will became friends with wayward sammy love and his father ,were various in able to enchance the lives and fortunes of the baileys.

Title: Tilly Trotter Wed: Description:
For 12 years until his death, Tilly Trotter has devotedly served Mark Sopwith as a wife in all but name. Then, four months pregnant, she leaves her native Tyneside for the pioneer life in 1850s Texas. Complete in itself and second in a trilogy of novels, this one explores her destiny. About the Author Catherine CooksonCatherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer - her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 - her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many best-selling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Title: The House Of Women: Description:
Emma Funnell is the matriarch of Bramble House, built for her as a wedding gift. Now, in 1968, she is in her seventies, with the avowed intent of living to be a hundred. And, as she has always done, she continues to rule the roost, for apart from herself three generations of the Funnell family live in the house - all of them women. There is widowed daughter Victoria, increasingly a hypochondriac; granddaughter Lizzie, who bears the brunt of running the house, as well as enduring a loveless marriage to Len Hammond; and Peggy, her sixteen-year-old daughter, now trying to find the courage to drop the bomb-shell of her pregnancy into their midst. This explosive situation provides the springboard for a powerful and absorbing novel that explores, over a period of fifteen years, all that fate holds in store for the dwellers in the house of women, reaching its climax with a frank confrontation of a major social issue of today. From the Back Cover Emma Funnell is the matriarch of Bramble House, built for her as a wedding gift. Now, in 1968, she is in her seventies, with the avowed intent of living to be a hundred. And, as she has always done, she continues to rule the roost, for apart from herself three generations of the Funnell family live in the house - all of them women. There is widowed daughter Victoria, increasingly a hypochondriac; granddaughter Lizzie, who bears the brunt of running the house, as well as enduring a loveless marriage to Len Hammond; and Peggy, her sixteen-year-old daughter, now trying to find the courage to drop the bombshell of her pregnancy into their midst. This explosive situation provides the springboard for a powerful and absorbing novel that explores, over a period of fifteen years, all that fate holds in store for the dwellers in The House of Women, reaching its climax with a frank confrontation of a major social issue of today. About the Author Catherine CooksonCatherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer - her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 - her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many best-selling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998.

Title: The Gillyvors: Description:
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. By all appearances they were a close and loving family. Yet across the happy facade lay a shadow that had lengthened and darkened with the passing years. For the father and mother were not husband and wife, which meant that, to the narrow and bigoted minds of the Victorian rural community, the offspring of Natheniel Martell and Maria Dagshaw were base-born gillyvors - in country parlance, bastards. Anna, the elder daughter, was entering womanhood resolved to face the legacy of her birth and the challenges it must continue to bring her. Her journey through life would not be an easy one and only her inborn courage and zest for life would sustain her quest for fulfilment and happiness. From the Back Cover 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. By all appearances they were a close and loving family. Yet across the happy façade lay a shadow that had lengthened and darkened with the passing years. For the mother and father were not husband and wife, which meant that, to the narrow and bigoted minds of the Victorian rural community, the offspring of Nathaniel Martell and Maria Dagshaw were base-born gillyvors - in country parlance, bastards. Anna, the elder daughter, was entering womanhood resolved to face the legacy of her birth and the challenges it must continue to bring her. Her journey through life would not be an easy one and only her inborn courage and zest for life would sustain her quest for fulfilment and happiness.

Title: The Silent Lady: Description:
The woman who presented herself at the offices of the respectable firm of London solicitors was, the receptionist decided, clearly a vagrant who had been sleeping on the streets. The clothes that hung on her frail body were filthy, and she seemed unable to speak. When she asked to see the firm's senior partner, Alexander Armstrong, she was at first shown the door - but when Mr Armstrong learned the name of his visitor, all the office staff were amazed at his reaction. For Irene Baindor was a woman with a past, and her emergence from obscurity was to signal the unravelling of a mystery that had baffled the lawyer for twenty-six years. What Irene - the silent lady of the title - had been doing, and where she had been, gradually emerged over the following weeks as Armstrong met the unlikely benefactors who had befriended her and helped her to build a useful and satisfying life in a sheltered environment. Now, at last, she was able to confront her tortured and violent past and find great happiness and contentment with the help of old friends and some newer ones. Displaying all the skills in plotting, scene-setting and characterization that made Catherine Cookson Britain's best-loved storyteller, and drawing on her own first-hand experience of working-class life between two world wars and in the 1950s, The Silent Lady is a fitting tribute to an author who wrote more than a hundred books, many of which have remained in print since their first publication. From the Back Cover The woman who presented herself at the offices of a respectable firm of London solicitors was, the receptionist decided, clearly a vagrant. The clothes that hung on her frail body were filthy, and she seemed unable to speak. When she asked to see the firm's senior partner, Alexander Armstrong, she was at first shown the door - but when Mr Armstrong learned the name of his visitor, all the office staff were amazed at his reaction. For Irene Baindor was a woman with a past, and her emergence from obscurity was to signal the unravelling of a mystery that had baffled the lawyer for twenty-six years. Catherine Cookson's final novel brings to a triumphant close a career which has spanned fifty years and over a hundred books. Displaying all the qualities which have made Catherine Cookson Britain's best loved storyteller, The Silent Lady is a fitting epitaph to a writer who has brought pleasure to tens of millions of readers across the globe through her wisdom, courage and humanity. About the Author Catherine CooksonCatherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer - her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 - her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many best-selling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998.

Title: A Grand Man: Description:
One in the Mary Ann series.

Title: Rosie Of The River: Description:
Sally and Fred's Norfolk Broads boating holiday lurches from one mishap to another, until they befriend 15-year old Rosie. After she has a fight with her violent mother, it is Sally and Fred she runs to. She goes to live with her grandmother, but through the years she relies on Sally and Fred. From the Back Cover Sally Carpenter can't swim and doesn't like boats, so when her husband Fred announces that he has booked them a boating holiday on the Norfolk Broads she's far from enthusiastic. Together with their beloved bull-terrier Bill they set off, only to lurch from one mishap to another. Drowning their sorrows in a local pub one evening they meet Rosie, whose family is also boating on the Broads. The Carpenters befriend fifteen-year-old Rosie and when she has a fight with her violent mother it is to Fred and Sally that she runs. After the holiday, Rosie goes to live with her grandmother, but through the years that follow she relies on Fred and Sally whenever she is in trouble. They help her sort out the many and varied difficulties facing her in her new life, and come to look upon her as the daughter they never had. About the Author Catherine CooksonCatherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer - her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 - her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many best-selling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998.

Title: Bill Bailey: Description:
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 Bill Bailey. It is not long before she wonders how she ever managed without him. About the Author Catherine CooksonCatherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer - her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 - her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many best-selling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Title: Kate Hannigan's Girl: Description:
It is the early 1920s and Kate is happily married to Dr Rodney Prince, who has willingly accepted her illegitimate daughter Annie as the eldest child of their family. Everything seems to be fair set for the Prince family - but spiteful rumours about Kate's earlier life dog her's and Annie's steps. From the Publisher Sequel to Catherine Cookson's first published novel.When Catherine Cookson submitted Kate Hannigan's Girl to her original hardcover publisher, Macdonald, after they had published Kate Hannigan, she was told it could not be published without alterations because of its 'controversial' theme. So incensed was she by this verdict that she put it away in a cupboard and vowed it would never be published. Many years later, however, after she had written her final novel, she changed her mind and asked this writer, her editor for many years, to read it and advise her about its potentisl. My advice was that it was not only eminently publishable but would be an ideal candidate for her hundredth published book. From the Back Cover Kate Hannigan, Catherine Cookson's first published novel, has been in print since it first appeared in 1950. Now fifty years later, here is its sequel, Kate Hannigan's Girl. It is the early 1920s and Kate is happily married to Dr Rodney Prince, who has willingly accepted her illegitimate daughter Annie as the eldest child of their household. Everything seems to be set fair for the Prince family - but there is a serpent in every Eden, and spiteful rumours about Kate's past seem to dog her steps, and those of Annie, an insidious threat that revives memories of the poverty and narrowness of life in the Fifteen Streets district they have so recently left behind them. Annie will be faced with some of the problems that earlier beset her mother: religious prejudice and a choice between two different ways of life - the comfortable middle-class existence offered by Brian Stannard and the uncertain prospects of Terence Macbane, a brilliant mathematician, a man who springs from the underprivileged world that Annie knew as a child. As Kate Hannigan did, her daughter Annie must find the strength and eventual maturity that will enable her to overcome the troubles that threaten to engulf her. In this, Catherine Cookson's one hundredth published book, set in her beloved north-east, she reveals all her talents as a storyteller to capture the conflicts of class and religion and of growing up in a rapidly changing society. About the Author Catherine CooksonCatherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer - her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 - her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many best-selling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998.

Title: The Blind Years: Description:
Bridget Gether's parents were killed in the Blitz and she is brought up with the Overmeers in Northumbria. Unaware that she had been manipulated into marrying their son, Laurence, an encounter with the son of a farmer opens her eyes. When she calls off the wedding, Laurence seeks his revenge. About the Author Catherine CooksonCatherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer - her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 - her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many best-selling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998.

Title: The Branded Man: Description:
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" because of a disfigurement. This is the story of two women and the mysterious man who was to influence both their lives. From the Back Cover Fourteen-year-old Marie Anne Lawson, youngest daughter of a prosperous Northumbrian family, fleeing from something she couldn't bear to see, fell and broke her ankle. She was discovered by a local man who, because of a disfigurement, was known thereabouts as 'the branded man'. Her mother impatiently awaited her recovery, for she had already planned to send her wayward daughter to London, where her Aunt Martha could encourage the child's natural talent for the piano. But Aunt Martha's regime was so harsh that only the friendship of her aunt's companion, Sarah Foggerty, stopped Marie Anne from plunging into despair - that and the encouragement she received from her music tutor. Why, then, did his sudden disappearance make it necessary for her to return to Northumberland, this time into the care of her grandfather? Set at the turn of the century in Northumberland and London, The Branded Man is the gripping story of Marie Anne, Sarah Foggerty - and of the mysterious 'branded' man, who was to influence both their lives to an extent that neither of them could have imagined. This, Catherine Cookson's eighty-fifth novel, is yet another example of her extraordinary talent for compulsive storytelling. About the Author Catherine CooksonCatherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer - her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 - her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many best-selling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998.

Title: The Blind Years: Description:
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 their marriage. Lawrence could not forgive Bridget for the humiliation of rejection, so he made his own plans to punish her. About the Author Catherine CooksonCatherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer - her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 - her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many best-selling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998.

Title: Rooney: Description:
Rooney values his independence and has managed to avoid four widows and two spinsters. But once he moved to Ma Howell's place, life became very complicated. Harry is the "nice bloke" who succumbs to the office vamp at the Christmas party, and sets off a scandal that changes everything.

Title: Kate Hannigan's Girl: Description:
"Kate Hannigan", Catherine Cookson's first published novel, has been in print since it first appeared in 1950. Now, over fifty years later, here is its sequel, "Kate Hannigan's Girl". It is the early 1920s and Kate is happily married to Dr Rodney Prince, who has willingly accepted her illegitimate daughter, Annie, as the eldest child of their household. Everything seems to be fair set for the Prince family - but there is a serpent in every Eden, and spiteful rumours about Kate's earlier life seem to dog her steps, and those of Annie, an insidious threat that revives memories of the poverty and narrowness of life in the Fifteen Streets district that they have so recently left behind them. Annie will be faced with some of the problems that earlier beset her mother: religious prejudice and a choice between two different ways of life - the comfortable middle-class existence offered by Brian Stannard and the uncertain prospects of Terence McBane, a brilliant mathematician but springing from the underprivileged world that Annie knew as a child. As Kate Hannigan did, her daughter Annie must find the strength and eventual maturity to overcome the troubles that threaten to engulf her. From the Publisher Sequel to Catherine Cookson's first published novel.When Catherine Cookson submitted Kate Hannigan's Girl to her original hardcover publisher, Macdonald, after they had published Kate Hannigan, she was told it could not be published without alterations because of its 'controversial' theme. So incensed was she by this verdict that she put it away in a cupboard and vowed it would never be published. Many years later, however, after she had written her final novel, she changed her mind and asked this writer, her editor for many years, to read it and advise her about its potentisl. My advice was that it was not only eminently publishable but would be an ideal candidate for her hundredth published book. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From the Back Cover Kate Hannigan, Catherine Cookson's first published novel, has been in print since it first appeared in 1950. Now, over fifty years later, here is its sequel, Kate Hannigan's Girl. It is the early 1920s and Kate is happily married to Dr Rodney Prince, who has willingly accepted her illegitimate daughter Annie as the eldest child of their household. But there is a serpent in every Eden, and spiteful rumours about Kate and Annie's past abound - reviving memories of the poverty and indignities they have suffered in the Fifteen Streets district they have so recently left behind them. Annie is torn between the comfortable middle-class existence offered by Brian Stannard and the uncertain prospects of Terence Macbane, a brilliant mathematician, who comes from the underprivileged world that Annie knew as a child. Like Kate Hannigan, Annie must find the strength and maturity that will enable her to overcome the troubles that threaten to engulf her... About the Author Catherine CooksonCatherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer - her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 - her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many best-selling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998.

Title: The Moth: Description:
As a diversion from his job in his uncle's carpentry shop, newly arrived Robert Bradley began to explore the Durham countryside. It was on one of these walks that he met Millie, the ethereal girl-child whose odd ways and nocturnal wanderings had led her to be known locally as Thorman's Moth.

Title: Kate Hannigan (catherine Cookson Ominbuses): Description:
This volume contains two novels by Catherine Cookson, "The Long Corridor" and "Kate Hannigan". From the Back Cover Kate Hannigan Dr Rodney Prince's desire for a family had been frozen out by a wife who'd wanted Harley Street, not a Tyneside slum. By contrast, Kate Hannigan glowed with a warmth that was out of place in the grime and squalor of the Fifteen Streets. And so, between Rodney Prince, a wealthy man locked in an unhappy marriage, and Kate Hannigan, a bastard child of the slums, grew a love that opposed all the concepts of an Edwardian society... The Long Corridor To outsiders, Dr Paul Higgin's life appeared to be happy and contented. But the façade that Paul and his wife Bett presented to the world concealed a welter of hate that had grown worse with the passing years. They led their separate lives - until Bett decided to allow her spite and resentment to culminate in revenge on the husband she did not love... About the Author Catherine CooksonCatherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer - her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 - her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many best-selling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998.

Title: Goodbye Hamilton: Description:
The second volume of a Catherine Cookson trilogy, following "Hamilton". Freed at last from a disastrous marriage, Maisie had also become a bestselling author with her first book - about Hamilton, the remarkable horse who existed only in her imagination, and was her guide, philosopher and friend.

Title: The Dwelling Place: Description:
Cholera had taken her parents and left Cissie Brodie with the upbringing of a family of nine. She was barely fifteen herself when they were evicted from their cottage and forced out on to the fells. But even though they'd barely a shilling between them, Cissie set to building a home for the Brodies with a will that would have shamed an adult. It was only a rough stone shelter, thatched as best they could, but to Cissie and her family it would enough to keep them from the workhouse. They had friends, such as Matthew Turnbull the wheelwright and Watson the miller. But charity could not always spare them the harsh reality of their struggle and the bitterness of those who bore them ill. Only love - when it came for Cissie Brodie - could ever teach her not to fear the world beyond the dwelling place... About the Author Catherine CooksonCatherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer - her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 - her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many best-selling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998.

Title: Justice Is A Woman By Catherine Cookson: Description:
another story of Fellburn and Tyneside

Title: The Gillyvors: Description:
A tale of Fellburn in County Durham

Title: The Iron Facade: Description:
Prudence Dudley is a women with everything. But the emotional disaster which followed her sad, rejected childhood and her failed marriage had almost caused a breakdown. So along with her aunt, she flees to a rented cottage. The owner has as many secrets in his past as Prudence ....

Title: The Long Corridor: Description:
a book of revenge on a husband a wife did not love...

Title: The Unbaited Trap: Description:
John Emmerson was a lonely man.He had a wife,a son,friends,but he was isolated from all the peopl and events about him by the tradgedy of his past.Then he met Cissie,and for the first time in his life his loneliness eased a little.

Title: The Tinker's Girl: Description:
Explores the life and fortunes of a spirited girl who lived in an age when it was customary for servants to know thier place.With its brilliantevocation of the period,it will be hugely enjoyed by readers throughout the world

Title: Marriage And Mary Ann: Description:
Mary Ann is now engaged to be married and the wedding is to take place in a few week's time. But Mary Ann still manages to become involved in the knotty problems of those dear to her and sets out to solve them in her own inimitable manner.

Title: The Black Candle: Description:
After inheriting her father's businesses at the age of 19 Bridget Dene Mordaunt, by the time she was 23 she was running them with as firm a hand as any man, yet the path of destinywas not an easy one.The story spans nearly half a century and follows Bridget through the ups and downs of life.

Title: The Branded Man: Description:
14 Year Old Marie Anne Lawson had always run when she might have walked, and whilst running from a sight she would rather not have seen, she fell and hurt herself and was found by a local man, who because of a disfigurement, was known as the 'Branded Man' The story follows her recovery and subsequent removal to London.

Title: The Maltese Angel: Description:
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 was expected to marry a local girl, and there follows a series of attacks on his farm, culminating in Stephanie's murder. From the Back Cover 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 his life. But then, in a single week, his whole world had been turned upside down by a dancer, Stephanie McQueen, who seemed to float across the stage of the Empire Music Hall where she was appearing as The Maltese Angel. To his amazement, the attraction was mutual, and after a whirlwind courtship she agreed to marry him. But a scorpion had already begun to emerge from beneath the stone of the local community, who considered that Ward had betrayed their expectations, and had led on and cruelly deserted Daisy. There followed a series of reprisals on his family, one of them serious enough to cause him to exact a terrible revenge; and these events would twist and turn the course of many lives through Ward's own and succeeding generations. The Maltese Angel displays Catherine Cookson at her towering best in this immensely powerful novel which spans more than three decades, from the 1880s through to the First World War, and reaffirms yet again the author's standing as the best-loved and most widely read of today's storytellers. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. About the Author Catherine CooksonCatherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer - her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 - her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many best-selling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Title: Bill Bailey: Description:
Bill Bailey arrived in fellburn and made a difference to the life of young widow Fiona Nelson. Ahumorous and warm-hearted novel.

Title: Bill Bailey's Daughter: Description:
The newly married Fiona and Bill Bailey excitedly await the imminent birth of their first baby together. Following the story of how child number 4 fits into the family.

Title: My Beloved Son: Description:
The newly widowed Ellen Jerbau is faced with bringing up her 4 year old son, and her late husbands debts, but help comes in the shape of his older brother, who is the complete opposite of his late brother. The story follows the life of Ellen and her son Joseph, and his struggle to escape his mother's ruthless ambition and find his own way in the world.

Title: The Wingless Bird: Description:
With Christmas 1913 approaching and the rumblings of War, 22 year old Agnes Conway is dissatisfied with her life, and her job in her Father's shop. A chance meeting with Charles Farrier and his brother Reginald changes all that.

Title: The House Of Women: Description:
Bramble House is a Matriarchal Empire. It is the Crowning Glory of Bramble Lane, not only because of it's size and Grandeur, but because of its residents. There are 4 generations of Funnell Women, and this story is about them and those whose lives they touch.

Title: The Silent Lady: Description:
romantic

Title: The Unbaited Trap: Description:
romantic

Title: A House Divided: Description:
romantic

Title: Riley: Description:
There were many who said of Riley that in his early life he appeared to be older than his years. He left school with little knowledge but is appointed assistant stage manager at The Little Palace Theatre. Here he forms a close friendship with the thirty-something leading lady.

Title: The Desert Crop: Description:
Money was tight in the farming communities around Fellburn in the 1880s. Hector decides to marry a wealthy distant relative. Moira on the other hand wants to marry into the landed gentry. Each thinking the other is wealthy they embark on married life.

Title: The Wingless Bird: Description:
Even the approach to Christmas, 1913, fails to excite restless Agnes Conway, the twenty-two-year-old manager of her feckless father's adjoining sweet and tobacconist shops. There are dark secrets in Arthur Conway's past, and these come tragically to light when Agnes's younger sister becomes pregnant by one of the notorious Felton brothers. And Agnes herself has a secret, which she knows she must keep from her father: an attachment to Charles Farrier, son of a local landowner, who outrages his own pious family by proposing marriage. But Charles is not the only man who shapes Agnes's future, for his brother Reginald makes no secret of his admiration for her; although she could not have foreseen how significant a part he was to play in her destiny... From the Back Cover Even the approach of Christmas, 1913, fails to excite the restless Agnes Conway, the twenty-two-year-old manager of her feckless father's adjoining sweet and tobacconist shops. There are dark secrets in Arthur Conway's past, and these come tragically to light when Agnes's younger sister becomes pregnant by one of the notorious Felton brothers. And Agnes herself has a secret, which she knows she must keep from her father: an attachment to Charles Farrier, son of a local landowner, who outrages his own pious family by proposing marriage... But Charles is not the only man who shapes Agnes's future, for his brother Reginald makes no secret of his admiration for her; although she could not have foreseen how significant a part he was to play in her destiny... --This text refers to the Paperback edition. About the Author Catherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer - her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 - her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many best-selling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Title: The Mallen Litter: Description:
From generation to generation bad luck and misfortune had befallen each and every member of the Mallen family. It seemed as though the ghost of old Thomas Mallen himself lived on in his unfortunate descendants, and Barbara had spent her life trying to forget he was her father... Then, when her triplets - the Mallen litter - were born, there in one of her sons was the unmistakeable sign of the Mallen breed. How long would she have to wait and see if history would repeat itself?

Title: The Dwelling Place: Description:
The story of Cissie Brodie who decides to try and keep her family together when the parents die of fever in 1832. She finds a shanty on the fells but soon encounters enmity from the landowner's daughter and his sons.

Title: Justice Is A Woman: Description:
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. Making plain her disapproval of Joe's familiarity with the servants, questioning the donation of food to striking miners' families - these objections and more soon rubbed Joe and the local people up the wrong way, a problem he could easily have done without, for this was 1926, the year of the General Strike, the effects of which woujld nowhere be felt more acutely than in this heartland of the North East. Then when Elaine became pregnant, she saw it as a disaster and only the willingness of her unmarried sister Betty to come and see her through the confinement made it bearable. But in the long run would Betty's presence only serve to widen the rift between husband and wife, or would she help to bring about a reconciliation?

Title: Justice Is A Woman: Description:
The day the bride came to Fell Rise, the bridegroom had already begun to fear she might not settle easilyin the big house on the hill just outside the Tyneside town of Fellburn.

Title: A House Divided: Description:
Invalided out of the Army at the end of the second world war, Matthew Wallingham can't even look forward to his new future. As he lies in a hospital bed, he wonders what place there is in a new social order for a blind man - even if he is a decorated war hero. He has the sympathy of his family and his friends but it seems the only person who is a able to help him in his depression is his nurse Liz...

Title: Nice Bloke: Description:
Catherine Cookson in another story of Tyneside which she knows so well, treats with compassion the situation which Harry and those closest to him find themselves. Gradually he and his daughter Gail surmount the obstacles which face them, with the kind and increasing help of Janet Dunn, a childhood friend of Harry's, and her son Robbie; and thus finally, this is a story of success.

Title: Tilly Trotter: Description:
Part of Catherine cookson collection of 100 (NEW)

Title: The Girl: Description:
She appeared in Ned Riley's stable yard like some wraith of the morning mist to seek Ned's help. Her name was Hannah Boyle, she was eight years old, and she had walked many miles from Newcastle with her mother, who was seriously ill. From the Back Cover Her name was Hannah Boyle, but to the people of the village she would always be 'The Girl' - Matthew Thornton's bastard. Savagely treated by Matthew's wife Anne, she fled for protection to the devil-may-care horse-dealer, Ned Ridley, who had earlier befriended her. But, as the waif grew to beautiful womanhood, she became an object of desire to the local young men, even to her half-brother. Married off to a gross, sensual man, Hannah kept on fighting for the man she wanted: Ned Ridley, who adored her and taught her the meaning of love and passion... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Title: Kate Hannigan: Description:
1983 edition of classic romatic novel. Between Rodney Prince, a wealthy man locked in an unhappy marriage, and Kate Hannigan, a bastard child of the slums, grew a love that opposed all the concepts of Edwardia society.

Title: The Nice Bloke: Description:
It all began at the office party......

Title: The Menagerie: Description:
Classic Catherine Cookson

Title: The Simple Soul And Other Stories: Description:
A collection of stories set against the background of places already familiar to Catherine Cookson's readers. The timescale stretches from the 1920's to the present day, and the stories look at some of the changes that have come into people's lives in that period

Title: The Glass Virgin: Description:
Home isn't where the heart is when a devastating secret is uncovered.

Title: The Year Of The Virgins: Description:
It had never been the best of marriages, yet in the autumn of 1960, Winifred and Daniel Coulson still presented an acceptable family facade to the outside world. There was something potentially explosive just below the surface of life at Wearcill House. It came in an unforeseeable form.

Title: The Thursday Friend: Description:
The only relief Hannah has from her husband's tyranical company is his absence on a Thursday evening. Then she meets David, a man she begins to think of as her Thursday friend. Then an event occurs that destroys, at a stroke, all her husband's prospects, and he plans a bitter retaliation.

Title: The Upstart: Description:
Suddenly risen to power and influence, Samuel Fairbrother finds himself owner of a property and master of a clutch of servants, headed by the butler, Maitland, who makes it plain that he believes Samuel to be nothing more than an upstart. So begins a clash of wills between master and man.

Title: The Bonny Dawn: Description:
Brid Stevens had an appointment to keep with Joe Lloyd on the cliff-top to watch the sun come up. But on her return home, they were accused of spending the night together. Family and friends of all concerned displayed their prejudices and made judgements.

Title: The Golden Straw: Description:
A historical novel following YEAR OF THE VIRGINS and spanning the years from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. It tells the story of a milliner who falls in love with a hotel guest whilst on holiday in Nice. The relationship is to bring nothing but trouble to her and will affect the whole family for generations to come.

Title: The Rag Nymph: Description:
Aggie Winkowski had endured the Industrial Revolution that brought with it the factories and the slums, and turned her talents to a thriving business, trading rags and old clothes. Then, in the summer of 1854, seven-year-old Millie exploded into her life and gave it new meaning.

Title: The Obsession: Description:
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, she realizes her security is threatened and she must lay plans to protect it.

Title: The Bondage Of Love: Description:
Only after returning from his funeral did Fiona Bailey realize how much she would miss Davey. Towards the end of his life she had discovered qualities about him she had previously overlooked. Now Fiona and her husband must look after Davey's son, Sammy, who may not find it easy to settle in.

Title: The Tinker's Girl: Description:
A Catherine Cookson novel which explores the life and fortunes of a spirited girl who lived in an age when it was customary for servant-girls to do the bidding of their masters, and remember their place. Late in the 19th century, orphaned 14-year-old Jinnie Howlett leaves a northern workhouse.

Title: The Solace Of Sin: Description:
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 life for Vincent, who has an increasing influence on her life. Then the shocking truth about the man with whom she shared many years of her life comes to light.

Title: Rosie Of The River: Description:
Sally and Fred's Norfolk Broads boating holiday lurches from one mishap to another, until they befriend 15-year old Rosie. After she has a fight with her violent mother, it is Sally and Fred she runs to. She goes to live with her grandmother, but through the years she relies on Sally and Fred. From the Back Cover Sally Carpenter can't swim and doesn't like boats, so w...

Title: The Gillyvors: Description:
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. By all appearances they were a close and loving family. Yet across the happy facade lay a shadow that had lengthened and darkened with the passing years. For the father and mother were not husband and wife, which meant that, to the...

Title: The Wingless Bird: Description:
Even the approach to Christmas, 1913, fails to excite restless Agnes Conway, the twenty-two-year-old manager of her feckless father's adjoining sweet and tobacconist shops. There are dark secrets in Arthur Conway's past, and these come tragically to light when Agnes's younger sister becomes pregnant by one of the notorious Felton brothers.

Title: A Ruthless Need: Description:
A Ruthless Need tells with power and perception the story of a girl who, given the chance of a new life, burgeons into a talented woman of ideals and expectations, and who comes to realise that she no longer needs the support of a man she once regarded as her saviour

Title: The Silent Lady: Description:
The woman who presented herself at the offices of the respectable firm of London solicitors was, the receptionist decided, clearly a vagrant who had been sleeping on the streets. The clothes that hung on her frail body were filthy, and she seemed unable to speak. When she asked to see the firm's senior partner, Alexander Armstrong, she was at first shown the door........

Title: My Beloved Son: Description:
The newly widowed Ellen Jerbau is faced with bringing up her 4 year old son, and her late husbands debts, but help comes in the shape of his older brother, who is the complete opposite of his late brother. The story follows the life of Ellen and her son Joseph, and his struggle to escape his mother's ruthless ambition and find his own way in the world.

Title: The House Of Women: Description:
Bramble House is a Matriarchal Empire. It is the Crowning Glory of Bramble Lane, not only because of it's size and Grandeur, but because of its residents. There are 4 generations of Funnell Women, and this story is about them and those whose lives they touch.

Title: The Mallen Girl, The Mallen Litter, The Tide Of Life And The Man Who Cried.: Description:
This is the complete and unabridged Book Club edition of the following books; The Mallen Girl, The Mallen Litter, The Tide of Life and the Man Who Cried.

Title: Black Velvet Gown: Description:
The story of a mother and daughter, often at odds with each other, facing the need to challenge and fight the predudice of an age.

Title: Rooney And The Nice Bloke: Description:
Two Catherine Cookson Novels in a collectors edition Hardback cover, a joy to read.

Title: The Year Of The Virgins: Description:
It had never been the best of marriages and over recent years, it had become effectively a marriage in name and outward appearance only. Yet, in the autumn of 1960, Winifred and Daniel Coulson presented an acceptable facade to the outside world, for Daniel had prospered sufficiently to allow them to live at Wearcill House, a mansion situated in the most favoured outskirt of the Tyneside town of Fellburn. Of their children, it was Donald on whom Winifred doted to the point of obsession, and now he was to be married, Winifred's prime concern was whether Donald was entering wedlock with an unbesmirched purity of body and spirit, for amidst the strange workings of her mind much earlier conceptions of morality and the teachings of the Church held sway. There was something potentially explosive just below the surface of life at Wearcill House, but when that explosion came it was in a totally unforeseeable and devastating form, plunging the Coulsons into an excoriating series of crises out of which would come both good and evil, as well as the true significance of "The Year of the Virgins"...

Title: The Blind Years: Description:
Bridget Gether's parents were killed in the blitz so she had lived with the Overmeers since she was a child. She was manipulated into agreeing to marry their son Lawrence but Bruce Dickenson,the son of a local farmer,opened her eyes to the possibility that she might be making a mistake......

Title: Hannah Massey: Description:
Proud,canny and ignorant Hannah Massey is a born ruler.Her kingdom maybe only a working class household but,within its walls,her iron will governs a male family and her word is law....

Title: Great Historical Romances : The Talisman Ring The Gambling Man The King's Pleasure: Description:
Three historical romances in one complete and unabridged volume.

Title: Catherine Cookson Omnibus: Description:
A COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED VOLUME OF 5 CATHERINE COOKSON NOVELS: THE MALLEN STREAK THE GIRL THE GAMBLING MAN THE CINDER PATH THE INVISIBLE CORD

Title: The Cultured Handmaiden: Description:
good reading condition

Title: Mary Ann's Angels: Description:
Mary Ann has twins, one of whom is talkative and the other not. Her husband decides a separation is needed but Mary Ann will not hear of it. This seemingly small quarrel leads to an explosive situation when Rose Mary disappears

Title: Kate Hannigan: Description:
Dr Rodney Prince had never seen a girl so out of place in the grime and squalor of the fifteen Streets than did Kate Hannigan.

Title: The Gillyvors: Description:
A century or so ago there lived at Heap Hollow Cottage, situated near Fellburn in County Durham, a man and a women and their six children. By all appearances they were a close and loving family. Yet across the happy facade lay a shadow that had lengthened and darkened with the passing years.

Title: The Tinker's Girl: Description:
Close to her fifteenth birthday, Jinnie Howlett, a reluctant inmate of a northern workhouse, was offered a position as a maid-of-all-work by the Shalemans at Tollet's Ridge Farm, a bleakly isolated farm near the Cumbrian border. Before long, however, she was to discover she had exchanged one kind of drudgery for another, for the Shalemans - Rose, invalid wife of Pug and mother to Bruce and Hal - demanded much of her. If it had not been for Bruce's willingness to defend her against the brutish Pub and Hal, she would have gladly returned to the workhouse. Then she became acquainted with Richard Baxton-Powell, but eventually his over-familiarity made her realise that despite everything her future would owe more to the Shalemans than any outside influence.

Title: The Bonny Dawn: Description:
Powerful novel set on the Northumbrian coast in the 1960s.