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Dame Catherine Cookson DBE (27 June 1906 – 11 June 1998) was a British 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 North East England, the setting for her novels.
Born as Catherine Ann McMullen at 5 Leam Lane in Tyne Dock, South Shields, County Durham, she was known as "Kate" as a child. She moved to East Jarrow, County Durham which would become the setting for one of her best-known novels, The Fifteen Streets. The illegitimate child of an alcoholic named Kate Fawcett, she grew up thinking her unmarried mother was her sister, as she was brought up by her grandparents, Rose and John McMullen. Biographer Kathleen Jones tracked down her father, whose name was Alexander Davies, a bigamist and gambler from Lancashire.
She left school at 13 and, after a period of domestic service, took a laundry job at Harton Workhouse in South Shields. In 1929, she moved south to run the laundry at Hastings Workhouse, saving every penny to buy a large Victorian house, and then taking in lodgers to supplement her income.
In June 1940, at the age of 34, she married Tom Cookson, a teacher at Hastings Grammar School. After experiencing four miscarriages late in pregnancy, it was discovered she was suffering from a rare vascular disease, telangiectasia, which causes bleeding from the nose, fingers and stomach and results in anemia. A mental breakdown followed the miscarriages, from which she took a decade to recover.
She took up writing as a form of therapy to tackle her depression, and joined Hastings Writers' Group. Her first novel, Kate Hannigan, was published in 1950. Though it was labelled a romance, she expressed discontent with the stereotype. Her books were, she said, historical novels about people and conditions she knew. Cookson had little connection with the London literary circus. She was always more interested in practising the art of writing. Her research could be uncomfortable — going down a mine, for instance, because her heroine came from a mining area. Catherine Cookson died at the age of 91 (16 days before her 92nd birthday) at her home in Newcastle, although her novels, many written from her sickbed, continued to be published posthumously until 2002. Tom died on 28 June 1998, just 17 days later. He had been hospitalised for a week and the cause of his death was not announced. He was 86 years old.
About author and audiobooks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Cookson
http://s5.postimage.org/m9ddi8otj/Catherine_Cookson.jpg
Written as Catherine Cookson
Catherine Cookson - Colour Blind
Catherine Cookson - Maggie Rowan
Catherine Cookson - Fanny McBride
Catherine Cookson - The Long Corridor
Catherine Cookson - Slinky Jane
Catherine Cookson - Katie Mulholland
Catherine Cookson - The Glass Virgin
Catherine Cookson - The Dwelling Place
Catherine Cookson - Feathers In The Fire
Catherine Cookson - The Invisible Cord
Catherine Cookson - The Gambling Man
Catherine Cookson - The Tide Of Life
Catherine Cookson - The Girl
Catherine Cookson - The Cinder Path
Catherine Cookson - The Man Who Cried
Catherine Cookson - The Whip
Catherine Cookson - The Black Velvet Gown
Catherine Cookson - The Moth
Catherine Cookson - The Parson's Daughter
Catherine Cookson - The Harrogate Secret
Catherine Cookson - The Cultured Handmaiden
Catherine Cookson - The Black Candle
Catherine Cookson - The Gillyvors
Catherine Cookson - The Rag Nymph
Catherine Cookson - The House Of Women
Catherine Cookson - The Maltese Angel
Catherine Cookson - The Golden Straw
Catherine Cookson - The Year Of The Virgins
Catherine Cookson - The Tinker's Girl
Catherine Cookson - The Branded Man
Catherine Cookson - Riley
Catherine Cookson - The Desert Crop
Catherine Cookson - A House Divided
Catherine Cookson - Rosie Of The River
Catherine Cookson - Silent Lady
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539198/Colour_Blind.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1540217/Maggie_Rowan.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539435/Fanny_McBride.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541918/The_Long_Corridor.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1540587/Slinky_Jane.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542656/Katie_Mulholland.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541180/The_Glass_Virgin.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1540963/The_Dwelling_Place.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542209/Feathers_In_The_Fire.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539618/The_Invisible_Cord.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541395/The_Gambling_Man.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541855/The_Tide_Of_Life.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542766/The_Girl.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541109/The_Cinder_Path.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1540441/The_Man_Who_Cried.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541783/The_Whip.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539395/The_Black_Velvet_Gown.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542261/The_Moth.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542036/The_Parson_s_Daughter.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1540465/The_Harrogate_Secret.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539922/The_Cultured_Handmaiden.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542983/The_Black_Candle.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541077/The_Gillyvors.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1540936/The_Rag_Nymph.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539913/The_House_Of_Women.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541556/The_Maltese_Angel.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1540909/The_Golden_Straw.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539313/The_Year_Of_The_Virgins.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542282/The_Tinker_s_Girl.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541440/The_Branded_Man.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542557/Riley.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541168/The_Desert_Crop.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541016/A_House_Divided.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541291/Rosie_Of_The_River.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542016/Silent_Lady.rar.html
The Bill Bailey Trilogy
Catherine Cookson - Bill Bailey
Catherine Cookson - Bill Baileys Lot
Catherine Cookson - Bill Bailey's Daughter
Catherine Cookson - The Bondage Of Love
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541768/Bill_Bailey.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1540106/Bill_Baileys_Lot.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542563/Bill_Baileys_Daughter.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541789/The_Bondage_Of_Love.rar.html
The Tilly Trotter Trilogy
Catherine Cookson - Tilly Trotter
Catherine Cookson - Tilly Trotter Wed
Catherine Cookson - Tilly Trotter Widowed
http://rapidgator.net/file/1540938/Tilly_Trotter.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542422/Tilly_Trotter_Wed.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542555/Tilly_Trotter_Widowed.rar.html
The Hamilton Series
Catherine Cookson - Hamilton
Catherine Cookson - Goodbye Hamilton
Catherine Cookson - Harold
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542347/Hamilton.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542083/Goodbye_Hamilton.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539938/Harold.rar.html
Mary Ann Stories
Catherine Cookson - Mary Ann Stories
http://rapidgator.net/file/1748043/Mary_Ann_Stories.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1751585/Mary_Ann_Stories.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1753518/Mary_Ann_Stories.part3.rar.html
The Mallen Novels
Catherine Cookson - The Mallen Streak
Catherine Cookson - The Mallen Girl
Catherine Cookson - The Mallen Litter
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542404/The_Mallen_Streak.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1540448/The_Mallen_Girl.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539460/The_Mallen_Litter.rar.html
The Kate Hannigan Series
Catherine Cookson - Kate Hannigan
Catherine Cookson - Kate Hannigan's Girl
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542121/Kate_Hanigan.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541286/Kate_Hannigan_s_Girl.rar.html
Others
Catherine Cookson - A Dinner Of Herbs
Catherine Cookson - As Pure As The Lily
Catherine Cookson - Fifteen Streets
Catherine Cookson - Lanky Jones
Catherine Cookson - Let Me Make Myself Plain
Catherine Cookson - Our Kate
Catherine Cookson - The Solace Of Sin
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539852/A_Dinner_Of_Herbs.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539885/As_Pure_As_The_Lily.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539790/Fifteen_Streets.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1540077/Lanky_Jones.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541316/Let_Me_Make_Myself_Plain.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542027/Our_Kate.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539778/The_Solace_Of_Sin.rar.html
Dame Catherine Cookson DBE (27 June 1906 – 11 June 1998) was a British 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 North East England, the setting for her novels.
Born as Catherine Ann McMullen at 5 Leam Lane in Tyne Dock, South Shields, County Durham, she was known as "Kate" as a child. She moved to East Jarrow, County Durham which would become the setting for one of her best-known novels, The Fifteen Streets. The illegitimate child of an alcoholic named Kate Fawcett, she grew up thinking her unmarried mother was her sister, as she was brought up by her grandparents, Rose and John McMullen. Biographer Kathleen Jones tracked down her father, whose name was Alexander Davies, a bigamist and gambler from Lancashire.
She left school at 13 and, after a period of domestic service, took a laundry job at Harton Workhouse in South Shields. In 1929, she moved south to run the laundry at Hastings Workhouse, saving every penny to buy a large Victorian house, and then taking in lodgers to supplement her income.
In June 1940, at the age of 34, she married Tom Cookson, a teacher at Hastings Grammar School. After experiencing four miscarriages late in pregnancy, it was discovered she was suffering from a rare vascular disease, telangiectasia, which causes bleeding from the nose, fingers and stomach and results in anemia. A mental breakdown followed the miscarriages, from which she took a decade to recover.
She took up writing as a form of therapy to tackle her depression, and joined Hastings Writers' Group. Her first novel, Kate Hannigan, was published in 1950. Though it was labelled a romance, she expressed discontent with the stereotype. Her books were, she said, historical novels about people and conditions she knew. Cookson had little connection with the London literary circus. She was always more interested in practising the art of writing. Her research could be uncomfortable — going down a mine, for instance, because her heroine came from a mining area. Catherine Cookson died at the age of 91 (16 days before her 92nd birthday) at her home in Newcastle, although her novels, many written from her sickbed, continued to be published posthumously until 2002. Tom died on 28 June 1998, just 17 days later. He had been hospitalised for a week and the cause of his death was not announced. He was 86 years old.
About author and audiobooks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Cookson
http://s5.postimage.org/m9ddi8otj/Catherine_Cookson.jpg
Written as Catherine Cookson
Catherine Cookson - Colour Blind
Catherine Cookson - Maggie Rowan
Catherine Cookson - Fanny McBride
Catherine Cookson - The Long Corridor
Catherine Cookson - Slinky Jane
Catherine Cookson - Katie Mulholland
Catherine Cookson - The Glass Virgin
Catherine Cookson - The Dwelling Place
Catherine Cookson - Feathers In The Fire
Catherine Cookson - The Invisible Cord
Catherine Cookson - The Gambling Man
Catherine Cookson - The Tide Of Life
Catherine Cookson - The Girl
Catherine Cookson - The Cinder Path
Catherine Cookson - The Man Who Cried
Catherine Cookson - The Whip
Catherine Cookson - The Black Velvet Gown
Catherine Cookson - The Moth
Catherine Cookson - The Parson's Daughter
Catherine Cookson - The Harrogate Secret
Catherine Cookson - The Cultured Handmaiden
Catherine Cookson - The Black Candle
Catherine Cookson - The Gillyvors
Catherine Cookson - The Rag Nymph
Catherine Cookson - The House Of Women
Catherine Cookson - The Maltese Angel
Catherine Cookson - The Golden Straw
Catherine Cookson - The Year Of The Virgins
Catherine Cookson - The Tinker's Girl
Catherine Cookson - The Branded Man
Catherine Cookson - Riley
Catherine Cookson - The Desert Crop
Catherine Cookson - A House Divided
Catherine Cookson - Rosie Of The River
Catherine Cookson - Silent Lady
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539198/Colour_Blind.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1540217/Maggie_Rowan.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539435/Fanny_McBride.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541918/The_Long_Corridor.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1540587/Slinky_Jane.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542656/Katie_Mulholland.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541180/The_Glass_Virgin.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1540963/The_Dwelling_Place.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542209/Feathers_In_The_Fire.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539618/The_Invisible_Cord.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541395/The_Gambling_Man.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541855/The_Tide_Of_Life.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542766/The_Girl.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541109/The_Cinder_Path.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1540441/The_Man_Who_Cried.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541783/The_Whip.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539395/The_Black_Velvet_Gown.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542261/The_Moth.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542036/The_Parson_s_Daughter.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1540465/The_Harrogate_Secret.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539922/The_Cultured_Handmaiden.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542983/The_Black_Candle.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541077/The_Gillyvors.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1540936/The_Rag_Nymph.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539913/The_House_Of_Women.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541556/The_Maltese_Angel.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1540909/The_Golden_Straw.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539313/The_Year_Of_The_Virgins.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542282/The_Tinker_s_Girl.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541440/The_Branded_Man.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542557/Riley.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541168/The_Desert_Crop.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541016/A_House_Divided.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541291/Rosie_Of_The_River.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542016/Silent_Lady.rar.html
The Bill Bailey Trilogy
Catherine Cookson - Bill Bailey
Catherine Cookson - Bill Baileys Lot
Catherine Cookson - Bill Bailey's Daughter
Catherine Cookson - The Bondage Of Love
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541768/Bill_Bailey.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1540106/Bill_Baileys_Lot.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542563/Bill_Baileys_Daughter.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541789/The_Bondage_Of_Love.rar.html
The Tilly Trotter Trilogy
Catherine Cookson - Tilly Trotter
Catherine Cookson - Tilly Trotter Wed
Catherine Cookson - Tilly Trotter Widowed
http://rapidgator.net/file/1540938/Tilly_Trotter.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542422/Tilly_Trotter_Wed.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542555/Tilly_Trotter_Widowed.rar.html
The Hamilton Series
Catherine Cookson - Hamilton
Catherine Cookson - Goodbye Hamilton
Catherine Cookson - Harold
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542347/Hamilton.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542083/Goodbye_Hamilton.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539938/Harold.rar.html
Mary Ann Stories
Catherine Cookson - Mary Ann Stories
http://rapidgator.net/file/1748043/Mary_Ann_Stories.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1751585/Mary_Ann_Stories.part2.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1753518/Mary_Ann_Stories.part3.rar.html
The Mallen Novels
Catherine Cookson - The Mallen Streak
Catherine Cookson - The Mallen Girl
Catherine Cookson - The Mallen Litter
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542404/The_Mallen_Streak.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1540448/The_Mallen_Girl.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539460/The_Mallen_Litter.rar.html
The Kate Hannigan Series
Catherine Cookson - Kate Hannigan
Catherine Cookson - Kate Hannigan's Girl
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542121/Kate_Hanigan.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541286/Kate_Hannigan_s_Girl.rar.html
Others
Catherine Cookson - A Dinner Of Herbs
Catherine Cookson - As Pure As The Lily
Catherine Cookson - Fifteen Streets
Catherine Cookson - Lanky Jones
Catherine Cookson - Let Me Make Myself Plain
Catherine Cookson - Our Kate
Catherine Cookson - The Solace Of Sin
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539852/A_Dinner_Of_Herbs.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539885/As_Pure_As_The_Lily.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539790/Fifteen_Streets.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1540077/Lanky_Jones.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1541316/Let_Me_Make_Myself_Plain.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1542027/Our_Kate.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1539778/The_Solace_Of_Sin.rar.html