Catherine Cookson

Dame Catherine Ann Cookson DBE (June 27 1906 - June 11 1998) was an English novelist. Cookson became Britain's most widely read novelist, while remaining a relatively low-profile figure in the world of celebrity novelists. Her writing was inspired by her deprived youth in the North East of England, the setting for her novels.

Bibliography

• The Fifteen Streets 1952
• Colour Blind 1953
• Maggie Rowan 1954
• Rooney 1957
• The Menagerie 1958
• Fanny McBride 1959
• Fenwick Houses 1960
• The Garment 1962
• The Blind Miller 1963
• The Wingless Bird 1964
• Hannah Massey 1964
• The Long Corridor 1965
• The Unbaited Trap 1966
• Slinky Jane 1967
• Katie Mulholland 1967
• The Round Tower 1968
• The Husband 1969
• The Nice Bloke 1969
• The Glass Virgin 1969
• The Invitation 1970
• The Dwelling Place 1971
• Feathers in the Fire 1971
• Pure as the Lily 1972
• The Invisible Cord 1975
• The Gambling Man 1975
• The Tide of Life 1976
• The Girl 1977
• The Cinder Path 1978
• The Man Who Cried 1979
• The Whip 1983
• The Black Velvet Gown 1984
• A Dinner of Herbs 1985
• The Bannaman Legacy 1985
• The Moth 1986
• The Parson's Daughter 1987
• The Harrogate Secret 1988
• The Cultured Handmaiden 1988
• The Black Candle 1989
• The Gillyvors 1990
• My Beloved Son 1991
• The Rag Nymph 1991
• The House of Women 1992
• The Maltese Angel 1992
• The Golden Straw 1993
• The Forester Girl 1993
• The Year of the Virgins 1993
• The Tinker's Girl 1995
• Justice Is a Woman 1995
• The Bonnie Dawn 1996
• The Obsession 1997
• The Upstart 1998
• The Blind Years 1998
• Riley 1998
• The Desert Crop 1999
• The Thursday Friend 1999
• My Land of the North 1999
• Desert Crop 1999
• A House Divided 2000
• Rosie of the River 2000
• Silent Lady 2002

The Hamilton series

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• Hamilton 1983
• Goodbye Hamilton 1984
• Harold 1985

The Kate Hannigan series

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• Kate Hannigan 1950
• Kate Hannigan's Girl 2001

The Tilly Trotter trilogy

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• Tilly Trotter 1980
• Tilly Trotter Wed 1981
• Tilly Trotter Widowed 1982

The Mallen trilogy

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• The Mallen Girl 1973
• The Mallen Streak 1973
• The Mallen Litter 1974

The Bill Bailey trilogy

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• Bill Bailey 1986
• Bill Bailey's Lot 1987
• Bill Bailey's Daughter 1988

The Mary Ann stories

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• A Grand Man 1954
• The Lord and Mary Ann 1956
• The Devil and Mary Ann 1958
• Love and Mary Ann 1961
• Life and Mary Ann 1962
• Marriage and Mary Ann 1964
• Mary Ann's Angels 1965
• Mary Ann and Bill 1967

Children's stories

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• Matty Doolin 1965
• Joe and the Gladiator 1968
• The Nipper 1970
• Blue Baccy 1972
• Our John Willy 1974
• Mrs Flannagan's Trumpet 1976
• Go Tell It to Mrs Golightly 1977
• Lanky Jones 1981
• Nancy Nutall and the Mongrel 1982

Autobiographies

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• Our Kate 1969
• Catherine Cookson County 1986
• Let Me Make Myself Plain 1988

Written as Catherine Marchant

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• The Slow Awakening 1976
• Miss Martha Mary Crawford 1975
• The Iron Facade 1965
• The Fen Tiger 1963

Written as Katie McMullen

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• Heritage of Folly 1962
• House of Men 1963

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