Female : Best selling novelist. In 1940 married Thomas Henry Cookson, a teacher. In 1994 she was the most borrowed author from UK libraries

Nationality : English Place of Birth : South Shields, Tyneside

Date of Birth : 1906 Date of Death : 1998 Age : 93

Pseudonyms : Real Name = Ann McMullen. Catherine Marchant, Catherine Fawcett

NOVELS
All Macdonald
1950-1960
Kate Hannigan (1950)
The Fifteen Streets (1952)
Colour Blind (1953)
Maggie Rowan (1954)
A Grand Man (1954)
The Lord and Mary Ann (1956)
Rooney (1958)
[Filmed in 1958]
The Menagerie (1958)
The Devil and Mary Ann (1958)
Slinky Jane (1959)
The Hawk's Nest (1959 Wright & Brown) - as Catherine Fawcett
Sapphires for Sally (1959 W & B) - as Catherine Fawcett
Fanny McBride (1959)
Fenwick Houses (1960)

1961-1970
Love and Mary Ann (1962)
The Garment (1962)
Life and Mary Ann (1962)
The Fen Tiger (1963 Macdonald) - as Catherine Merchant
Heritage of Folly (1963 Macdonald) - as Catherine Merchant
Marriage and Mary Ann (1964)
House of Men (1964 Macdonald) - as Catherine Merchant
The Blind Miller (1964)
Mary Ann's Angels (1965)
The Long Corridor (1965)
The Unbaited Trap (1966)
Mary Ann and Bill (1967)
Katie Mulholland (1967 30/-)
The Round Tower (1968)
The Nice Bloke (1969)
The Glass Virgin (1970)
The Invitation (1970)

1971-1980
The Dwelling Place (1971)
Feathers in the Fire (1971)
Pure as the Lily (1972)
Heinemann from here on
The Mallen Streak (1973)
The Mallen Girl (1974)
The Mallen Litter (1974)
The Invisible Cord (1975)
The Gambling Man (1975)
Miss Martha Mary Crawford (1975 Heinemann) - as Catherine Merchant
The Slow Awakening (1976 H) - as Catherine Merchant
The Tide of Life (1976)
The Iron Facade (1977 H) - as Catherine Merchant
The Girl (1977)
The Cinder Path (1978)
The Man Who Cried (1979)
Tilly Trotter (1980)

1981-1985
Tilly Trotter Wed (1982)
Tilly Trotter Widowed (1982)
The Whip (1983)
Hamilton (1983)
The Black Velvet Gown (1984)
Goodbye Hamilton (1984)
A Dinner of Herbs (1985)
Harold (1985)

1986-1990
The Moth (1986)
Bill Bailey (1986)
Bill Bailey's Lot (1987)
The Parson's Daughter (1987)
The Cultured Handmaiden (1988)
Bill Bailey's Daughter (1988)
The Harrogate Secret (1989)
The Black Candle (1989 Bantam)
The Wingless Bird (1990 Bantam £12.95)
The Gillyvors (1990 Bantam £13.99)

After 1991
My Beloved Son (1991 Bantam £13.99)
The House of Women (1992 Bantam £14.99)
The Maltese Angel (1992 Bantam Press £14.99)
The Year of the Virgins (1993 Bantam £14.99)
The Golden Straw (1993 Bantam £14.99)
Justice is a Woman (1994 Bantam £14.99)
The Tinker's Girl (1994 Bantam £14.99)
Ruthless Need (1995 Bantam £15.99)
The Obsession (1995 Bantam)
The Bonny Dawn (1996 Bantam Press £9.99)
Bondage of Love (1997 Bantam £16.99)
The Lady on My Left (1997 Bantam £9.99)
Solace of Sin (1998 Bantam £16.99)
Desert Crop (1998 Bantam £16.99)
The Blind Years (1998 Bantam £9.99)
The Thursday Friend (1999 Bantam Press £16.99)
The Silent Lady (2001 Bantam Press £16.99)

CHILDREN
All Macdonald
Matty Doolin (1965)
Joe and the Gladiator (1968)
The Nipper (1970)
Blue Baccy (1972)
Our John Willie (1974)
Mrs Flanagan's Trumpet (1976)
Go Tell it to Mrs Golightly (1977)
Lanky Jones (1980)
Nancy Nutall and the Mongrel (1982)

BIOGRAPHY
Our Kate (1969 Macdonald) - autobiography
Catherine Cookson Country (1986 Heinemann Pilot)
Let me Make Myself Plain (1988 Bantam)
Cliff Goodwin : To Be a Lady (1994 Century £15.99)

READING
Cliff Goodwin : To Be a Lady - The Story of Catherine Cookson (1994 Century £15.99)
Piers Dudgeon : Katie's Daughter - The Real Catherine Cookson (2003 Bantam £18.99)