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Dame Catherine Cookson


DBE (27 June 1906 – 11 June 1998) was an English author. She became the United Kingdom's most widely read novelist, with sales topping 100 million, while retaining a relatively low profile in the world of celebrity writers. Her books were inspired by her deprived youth in South Tyneside, North East England, the setting for her novels.

Books:

I.Written as Catherine Cookson
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 Nice Bloke (1969) aka The Husband (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) aka The Spaniard's Gift (1989)
The Black Velvet Gown (1984)
The Bannaman Legacy (1985) aka A Dinner of Herbs (1985)
The Moth (1986) aka The Thorman Inheritance (1989)
The Parson's Daughter (1987)
The Harrogate Secret (1988) aka The Secret
The Cultured Handmaiden (1988)
The Spaniard's Gift (1989) aka The Whip (1983)
The Black Candle (1989)
The Thorman Inheritance (1989) aka The Moth (1986)
The Gillyvors (1990) aka The Love Child (1991)
My Beloved Son (1991)
The Rag Nymph (1991) aka The Forester Girl (1993)
The House of Women (1992)
The Maltese Angel (1992)
The Golden Straw (1993)
The Forester Girl (1993) aka The Rag Nymph (1991)
The Year of the Virgins (1993)
The Tinker's Girl (1994)
Justice Is a Woman (1994)
A Ruthless Need (1995)
The Bonny Dawn (1996)
The Branded Man (1996)
The Lady on my Left (1997) aka The Mists of Memory (1965) by Catherine Marchant
The Obsession (1997)
The Upstart (1998)
The Blind Years (1998)
Riley (1998)
Solace of Sin (1998)
The Desert Crop (1999)
The Thursday Friend (1999)
A House Divided (2000)
Rosie of the River (2000)
The Simple Soul and Other Stories (2001)
Silent Lady (2002)

B.The Kate Hannigan series
Kate Hannigan (1950)
Kate Hannigan's Girl (2001)
C.The Mary Ann stories
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)
The Mallen Novels[edit]
The Mallen Streak (1973)
The Mallen Girl (1974)
The Mallen Litter (1974)
D.The Tilly Trotter trilogy
Tilly Trotter aka Tilly (1980)
Tilly Trotter Wed aka Tilly Wed (1981)
Tilly Trotter Widowed aka Tilly Alone (1982)
E.The Hamilton series
Hamilton (1983)
Goodbye Hamilton (1984)
Harold (1985)
F.The Bill Bailey trilogy
Bill Bailey (1986)
Bill Bailey's Lot (1987) aka Bill Bailey's Litter
Bill Bailey's Daughter (1988)
The Bondage of Love (1997)
G. Children's stories
Nico huele mal (1965)
Joe and the Gladiator (1968)
The Nipper (1970)
Blue Baccy (1972) aka Rory's Fortune (1988)
Our John Willie (1974)
Mrs Flannagan's Trumpet (1976)
Go Tell It to Mrs Golightly (1977)
Lanky Jones (1981)
Nancy Nutall and the Mongrel (1982)
Rory's Fortune (1988) aka Blue Baccy (1972)
Bill and The Mary Ann Shaughnessy (1991)
H.Autobiographies
Our Kate (1969)
Catherine Cookson Country (1986) aka My Land of the North (1999)
Let Me Make Myself Plain (1988)
Plainer Still (1995)
Just A Saying (2002)

II.Written as Catherine Marchant
Heritage of Folly (1961) aka Heritage of Folly (1961) by Katie McMullen
The Fen Tiger (1963) aka The House on the Fens (1963)
House of Men (1963)
The Mists of Memory (1965) aka The Lady on my Left (1997) by Catherine Cookson
The Iron Facade (1965) aka Evil at Rodgers Cross (1965)
Miss Martha Mary Crawford (1975)
The Slow Awakening (1976)

III.Written as Katie McMullen
Heritage of Folly (1961) aka Heritage of Folly (1961) by Catherine Marchant


Books in film and television

The Fifteen Streets (1989) with Sean Bean and Jane Horrocks
The Black Velvet Gown (1991) with Janet McTeer, Bob Peck, Geraldine Somerville won the International Emmy award for best drama.[10]
The Cinder Path (1994) with Catherine Zeta-Jones
The Dwelling Place (1994) with Tracy Whitwell and Ray Stevenson
The Tide of Life (1996) with Gillian Kearney and future Rome co-star James Purefoy
The Gambling Man (1995) with Robson Green
The Mallens (1979–1980) with John Hallam and Juliet Stevenson
The Black Candle (1991) with Nathaniel Parker and Samantha Bond
The Man Who Cried (1993) with Ciarán Hinds and Amanda Root
The Glass Virgin (1995) with Nigel Havers, Emily Mortimer and Brendan Coyle
The Girl (1996) with Jonathan Cake and Siobhan Flynn
The Moth (1997) with Jack Davenport, Juliet Aubrey and Justine Waddell
The Rag Nymph (1997) with Honeysuckle Weeks, Alec Newman and Val McLane
The Wingless Bird (1997) with Claire Skinner, Anne Reid and Julian Wadham
Colour Blind (1997) with Niamh Cusack, Tony Armatrading, Art Malik, and Carmen Ejogo
The Round Tower (1997) with Emilia Fox, Ben Miles and Denis Lawson
Tilly Trotter (1998) with Carli Norris and Simon Shepherd
The Secret (1999) with Colin Buchanan, Hannah Yelland, Elizabeth Carling, Clare Higgins, and Stephen Moyer
A Dinner of Herbs (2000) with Jonathan Kerrigan, Melanie Clark Pullen, Debra Stephenson, David Threlfall and Billie Whitelaw