Catherine Cookson, Author Center Point Large Print $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58547-071-6
First in the Premier Plus! series of large-print books is the late British author Catherine Cookson's Riley, published for the first time in the U.S. Cookson wrote over 70 books during her lifetime, often focusing on the lives of the working...
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Catherine Cookson, Author Simon & Schuster $21.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-86477-4
Veteran Cookson ( The Parson's Daughter ) provides a sweet, though not terribly engaging tale of a precocious young girl in Victorian England. When her mother commits suicide after being arrested for prostitution, seven-year-old Millie Forester is...
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Catherine Cookson, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-684-84241-7
Set in England, this story of a wicked woman's vengeful drive to control her family estate is another in popular romance novelist Cookson's (The Rag Nymph) formulaic but eventful tales. When Doctor John Falconer attends strong-willed Beatrice Steel's
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Catherine Cookson, Author Simon & Schuster $21.5 (269p) ISBN 978-0-671-89650-8
Hatred and duty and their effect on an English family in 1960 are the themes of Cookson's 14th novel (after The Maltese Angel). Ill-matched Daniel and Winifred Coulson have become enemies. Their children--Stephen, the retarded eldest; Joe, the...
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Catherine Cookson, Author Simon & Schuster $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-89649-2
Attempting to compress a sizable chunk of history (1886-1921) into this saga, Cookson (The Rag Nymph) ends up with a lackluster panorama of an inbred English village lumbering slowly and painfully into the 20th century. When honest, hardworking...
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Catherine Cookson, Author Simon & Schuster $21.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-75865-3
The latest from Cookson ( The Love Child ; The Bailey Chronicles ) is a perfunctorily plotted novel of tragedy and romance. After his father's death in 1926, five-year-old Joe Jebeau and his tyrannical mother, Ellen, move to his uncle Arthur's...
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Catherine Cookson, Author Summit Books $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-70176-5
Veteran romancer Cookson ( The Bailey Chronicles ) provides another satisfying drama featuring class tensions and an indomitable woman in 19th- century England. Heiress Bridget Mourdant, manager of her family's factory, squelches her attraction to...
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Catherine Cookson, Author Summit Books $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-62387-6
In her first contemporary romance, Cookson ( The Parson's Daughter ) introduces a thoroughly delightful extended family. Fiona Nelson is a 28-year-old widow with three children when Bill Bailey enters her Tyneside home as a paying guest. Although...
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Catherine Cookson, Author Summit Books $18.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-65941-7
As in her previous romances (The Bannaman Legacy; The Parson's Daughter) Cookson weaves thick gothic strands into the fabric of the Tyneside tales she has made popular. At age 10, Freddie Musgrave is a small, quick-witted runner for the smugglers...
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Catherine Cookson, Author Summit Books $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-63293-9
Veteran storyteller Cookson (The Bannaman Legacy, The Moth once again captures the stratified society of Northumberland in the late 19th century. When the local pastor's daughter, tomboyish Nancy Ann Howard, attracts the master of the manor,...
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Catherine Cookson, Author Summit Books $17.45 (293p) ISBN 978-0-671-44076-3
In the English county of Durham prior to World War I, marrying out of one's class is social suicide. But a remarkable man named Robert Bradley bucks the establishment. A carpenter by trade but self-educated and sensitive, Robert escapes conventional
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Catherine Cookson, Author Center Point Large Print $28.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58547-069-3
A dark family drama that begins in 1968 and spans 15 years, The House of Women is the most recent British import from the late Catherine Cookson (The Bondage of Love; A Ruthless Need; etc.). Emma is the stern, feisty 74-year-old matriarch of...
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Catherine Cookson, Author . Center Point $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58547-066-2
A handful of simple characters touched by tragedy are the protagonists of this moving WWII romance by the ever-popular Cookson, who died in 1998; this is the fourth of her books to be published posthumously in the U.S. by Center Point. On leave from
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Catherine Cookson, Author Center Point Large Print $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58547-068-6
The Bondage of Love is the latest of prolific and popular U.K. novelist Catherine Cookson's books to appear in America since her death in 1998. It concerns the havoc wrought on the lives of Bill and Fiona Bailey when they take in young Sammy Love,
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Catherine Cookson, Author Simon & Schuster $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1252-6
Cookson's 100th book, posthumously published, rounds off her oeuvre, but is more memorable for its landmark status than its content. Set in England's Northumberland countryside in the early 20th century, it takes up the story line from a previous...
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Catherine Cookson, Author Simon & Schuster $24 (366p) ISBN 978-0-684-87121-9
Cookson may have died in 1998, but readers are not yet compelled to bid her a final good-bye. If this posthumous offering, with its repetitive plotting and murky prose, is not up to the writer's usual standards, loyal fans will likely forgive its...
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Catherine Cookson, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (319p) ISBN 978-0-684-85683-4
Prolific author Cookson (The Lady on My Left), who died in June of this year after publishing more than 90 books, left this last novel, again concerned with poverty-stricken Northern Englanders in the late 19th century. Alcoholic widower Hector...
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Catherine Cookson, Author Summit Books $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-66620-0
``Life was unfair to women,'' thinks Agnes Conway, Cookson's latest naive but indomitable and likable turn-of-the-century heroine whose options seem to be a marriage of convenience or bitter spinsterhood. Agnes, the elder and not-so-pretty daughter...
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Catherine Cookson, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-684-80855-0
It's the 1970s, and 21-year-old Jinny Brownlow has just heard her fiancé pronounce her a "cultured handmaiden" —slavishly eager to please—and announce he's leaving her for her roommate. What will obedient Brit...
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Catherine Cookson, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6126-5
What differentiates a true lady from a common woman? Is it blood, environment, education or simply hauteur? The late, prolific Cookson deftly explores these questions in this dizzying upstairs-downstairs "romance of adversity" set in rural...
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Catherine Cookson, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7432-3773-4
In her first historical romance, finally available stateside in hardcover, the late British novelist Cookson (The Fifteen Streets
, etc.) shows her chops and introduces her beloved heroine Kate Hannigan. Intelligent, beautiful and out of place in...
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Catherine Cookson, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7432-3678-2
British readers have been familiar with this early novel by Cookson for five decades, but this reissue will please American fans who crave the late author's sudsy historical novels. John O'Brien, born in the Tyneside area of Northumberland...
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Catherine Cookson, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2761-2
No one gets to die in publishing anymore—instead, the dead just keep pumping out new books. The latest posthumously published novel from Cookson (Kate Hannigan's Girl, etc.) takes place in England between the wars and after. When a woman...
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