The home from which Catherine Cookson penned many of her most popular works has gone on the market for £1.1million. Dame Catherine, one of Britain's best-selling authors, moved into Loreto, in ...

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 ...

For certain readers of a highbrow persuasion, Catherine Cookson is one step up from Mills and Boon. But for the historian Dominic Sandbrook, Cookson might just be the missing link between Charles ...

Catherine Cookson: This is your life! The famous words were uttered in 1982 and the cameras panned to a hospital in South Shields. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Shields Gazette, you can ...

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 ...

A new exhibition has opened marking the 20th anniversary of Catherine Cookson's death. The South Shields author set many of her novels in her hometown and around the north-east of England. At the time ...

Catherine Cookson’s gritty novels depicting life in early 20th Tyneside reflected her own humble origins and captivated millions when they were serialised on television. The best-selling author was ...

I have been asked by regular contributor Beatrice Mill to remind readers that there’s still time to catch the production of Tom & Catherine that is being staged at the Customs House, South Shields, ...

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While not an obvious breeding ground for A-list stars, plenty of famous faces once appeared in Catherine Cookson dramas, as millions tuned in, completely unaware that they were watching people who'd ...