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 ...

Britain's most prolific novelist and best- selling author Catherine Cookson was born 100 years ago tomorrow. Abbie Wightwick looks at her life and legacy BORN illegitimate 100 years ago to a barmaid ...

MUSEUM visitors can now take a look behind the scenes to see how Catherine Cookson's best-selling novels have been adapted for television. Catherine Cookson: Page to Screen will run at South Shields ...

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 ...

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 ...

TRIBUTES have flooded in for Britain's best-selling author, Dame Catherine Cookson, who has died aged 91. Dame Catherine, died peacefully at her home in Jesmond Dene, Newcastle upon Tyne, where she ...

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 ...

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Tilly Trotter is a down to earth young woman who is full of integrity and impassioned with innocent affection for the local farmer. Resilience and self belief carry her through some very dark days.