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 ...

Her stories of illicit love and class struggle in her native North East made her one of the country’s best-loved authors. Now previously undiscovered memoirs written by Dame Catherine Cookson towards ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE former Tyneside home of author Catherine Cookson has been put up for sale. The six-bedroom Edwardian home, in Jesmond, Newcastle, has been put on the market for £750,000 more than 30 years after ...

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, ...

Dame Catherine Cookson was born in South Shields in 1906 Visitors to South Tyneside are no longer being advised that they are entering "Catherine Cookson Country". The best-selling author, who died in ...

Visitors to South Tyneside are no longer being advised that they are entering "Catherine Cookson Country". The best-selling author, who died in 1998 shortly before her 92nd birthday, was born in South ...