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Top authors heading to Durham Book Festival - here's who's on the bill
25 Aug 2025 10:25 GMT
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The Durham author has written 16 novels, including the Booker-Prize winning The … Best of Young British Novelists and recent Booker Prize long-listee, Natasha … discussing the legacy of Catherine Cookson.
Rebecca Wilkie, Durham Book Festival Director at …
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Jacqueline Wilson: ‘My mum didn’t like me – she never read a single book of mine’
22 Aug 2025 11:25 GMT
… and wildly successful children’s author, becoming the fourth Children’ … for one of the books in Catherine Cookson’s Mary Ann series … to reinvent myself [as a novelist for adults] feels absolutely … do?”
‘Picture Imperfect’ is published by Bantam on 28 August
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Durham Book Festival unveils 2025 line-up
18 Aug 2025 05:19 GMT
… broadcaster Steph McGovern, who is publishing her debut thriller Deadline.
A … , Natasha Brown with her Booker-longlisted second novel Universality, and journalist John … White on the legacy of Catherine Cookson. Children’s programming returns through …
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PATRICK MARMION reviews Marriage Material at the Lytic Theatre: Catherine Cookson meets The Kumars in a sweet Sikh sitcom
30 May 2025 02:18 GMT
… #39;s epic Wolverhampton-set novel Marriage Material.
But what… 39;s epic Wolverhampton-set novel Marriage Material focuses on two … Hardy
What feels like a Catherine Cookson yarn of hard work and … back to into the good books of the evangelic church, enraged …
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Preston designer turned author’s memoir of love, fashion and survival in 1980s Nairobi
16 Apr 2025 23:47 GMT
… connecting threads.”
Jennifer at her book launch
10 Years of Unpicking … cousin, once removed, of celebrated author Catherine Cookson. She has spent most of … know now?”
Jennifer’s first published work, 10 Years of Unpicking …
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Picture gallery provides chapter and verse on Dundee books and libraries
06 Mar 2025 06:09 GMT
… of newspapers published on the day it opened.
New books then included … of the Scottish People and Catherine Cookson’s The Nice Bloke.
Competition … trip to Dundee
Dundee-born author A.L. Kennedy. Image: …
She wrote a Doctor Who novel in 2015 called The Drosten …
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Our Sweet Violet by Rosie Goodwin: a gripping emotional rollercoaster ride – book review –
25 Feb 2025 15:51 GMT
… for the third and final book in her much-loved … mother, four-million-copy bestselling author Goodwin has penned over forty … the late, great Tyneside writer Catherine Cookson’s trilogies with her own … people – that have made her novels so beloved by readers over …
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Best-selling author to release her latest novel - one rejected 30 years ago
26 Dec 2024 09:02 GMT
A best-selling author whose journey as a … release her latest novel – which was rejected by publishers three decades ago … Hungry Tide won the prestigious Catherine Cookson Prize for Fiction in 1994 … part of being an author.
"Although my novels are set in …
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The A-listers who once starred in Catherine Cookson dramas - from Catherine Zeta Jones to Sean Bean
27 Feb 2024 12:15 GMT
… faces once appeared in Catherine Cookson dramas, as millions tuned … the novels of the much cherished South Tyneside author were … a glittering career. Other Catherine Cookson books to get the ITV … the most popular Cookson novels, The Fifteen Streets gave …
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‘You’re never too old to do anything you want to’ – Beverley author Val Wood turns 90 and is already working on her next book
24 Oct 2024 16:55 GMT
… the page for celebrated Beverley author Val Wood – and they … Catherine Cookson Prize for Fiction in 1994, prepares to launch her latest novel … wasn’t accepted by my publisher because it was contemporary, … November 21, at a book-signing at Waterstones, Jameson …