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North & South
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Margaret Hale moves with her upper-class family to a provincial industrial town in northern England. There she becomes involved in the lives of local factory workers and union members, at one point even participating in a strike. A stormy and difficult romantic relationship with a factory owner, John Thornton, ends happily after Thornton changes ...
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A Cold Treachery
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December, 1919: Deep in England's frozen Lake District, constables discover a scene of unimaginable carnage: the bodies of five family members splayed across a bloodied cottage kitchen. Somewhere amidst the peaks and valleys of this beautiful country lurks a murderer who considers so much spilt blood the least of his revenge.
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Tilly Trotter Widowed
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Catherine Cookson
Reissue of a novel first published in 1982. The author's other novels include "Invisible Cord", "The Mallen Girl", "Tilly Trotter", "The Tide of Life" and "Gambling Man".
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The Forester Girl
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Catherine Cookson
Set in the northern countryside of Victorian-era England, this spellbinding novel of good and evil, wealth and want, and the profound power of love is another major achievement in the career of one of the world's most widely read and beloved authors.
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Justice is a Woman
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Catherine Cookson
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 ...
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The Glass Virgin
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Catherine Cookson
The gently reared Annabella Lagrane is kept far away from the suffering lower classes. But as a young woman, Annabella learns that her blood is less than blue, She is in fact the daughter of one of her wastrel father Edmund's many mistresses, a brothel madam, and no relation to Edmund's puritanical wife Rosina. Shocked by this revelation, ...
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Kate Hannigans Girl
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Catherine Cookson
It is the early 1920s and Kate Hannigan 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 going well for the Prince family, but soon spiteful rumours about Kate's earlier life seem to haunt both her and Annie - an insidious threat that ...
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Parsons Daughter
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Catherine Cookson
Nancy Ann Hazel was the young and high-spirited daughter of a country parson. Her courage and fortitude were soon tested by the challenges of a controversial marriage, when conflict and tragedy alike had to be faced and overcome.
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Wingless Bird
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Catherine Cookson
Even the approach to Christmas fails to excite restless Agnes Conway, the twenty-two-year-old manager of the sweet and tobacconist shops owned by her feckless father. There are dark secrets in Arthur Conway's past, and these come tragically to light when Agnes' younger sister falls pregnant by one of the notorious Felton brothers. And Agnes ...
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Moth
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Catherine Cookson
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.
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Tilly Trotter
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The Iron Facade
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Catherine Cookson
Novelist Prudence Dudley seems to have it all when the news that her husband is a bigamist sends her to the brink of an emotional breakdown. She and a beloved aunt flee to the peace and quiet of a secluded cottage. The landlord comes across as an angry, arrogant, hostile man, but as Pru is drawn into the mystery of his turbulent life, she learns ...
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The Bailey Chronicles
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Catherine Cookson
From the moment Bill Bailey arrives to take up residence at Fiona Nelson's home in the Tyneside town of Fellburn, he makes his presence felt--and brings joy and love back into the young widow's family. A supremely satisfying contemporary romance.
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Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued about
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Mil Millington
When Pel is promoted to head his IT department, he finds that his new job involves some very shady elements, and Pel realizes too late that he's going to take the rap for his predecessor, who has mysteriously disappeared. Meanwhile, Pel and his girlfriend Ursula spend too much of their time arguing about everything from sex to the kids to the car. ...
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The Girl
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Catherine Cookson
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.
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Tilly
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Cinder path
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Catherine Cookson
Was Charlie MacFell just the kind of nice chap who always takes the dirty end of the stick, lacking the inner strength to take a firm stand in either life or love?
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Tilly Alone
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Billy Elliot
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Melvin Burgess
Billy Elliot's tough, funny and heart-warming story is given new depth by best-selling author, Melvin Burgess. Billy's mother is dead, and his father and brother are fiercely involved in a bitter miners' fight that has split the local community. Billy's father wants his son to learn boxing, like he did and his father before him. But Billy is ...
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Year of the virgins
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Catherine Cookson
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 ...
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Miss Martha Mary Crawford
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The Rag Nymph
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Catherine Cookson
When Millie Forester's mother abandons her one late June afternoon in 1854, the girl bursts unexpectedly into Aggie Winkowski's life. Aggie, known locally as 'Raggie Aggie' for her long-established business of trading rags and old clothes, knows the dangers waiting for such a strikingly pretty girl left alone in this rough and vice-ridden quarter, ...
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Black Velvet Gown
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Catherine Cookson
A novel which follows the fortunes of a widow as she returns with her children to her native place, where her new job as a housekeeper leads to many other opportunities for her and her family.
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The Wrong Boy
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Russell
The Dewsbury Desperadoes are on their way to Pontefract for a gig at the Allied Butchers' & Architects' Club. The Girl with the Chestnut Eyes is on her way to somewhere. And Raymond is heading for Gulag Grimshy. Raymond Marks is a normal boy, from a normal family, in a normal northern town. His dad left home after falling in love with a five ...
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The Love Child
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Catherine Cookson
Set in the northern English countryside that Catherine Cookson depicts so beautifully, this 19th-century saga tells of the romance of Nathaniel and Maria, who together have six children. They have never married, however, and their children are scorned and treated as outcasts. A dramatic portrait of a battle to overcome human cruelty and the ...
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