AuthorCatherine Cookson
NarratorSusan Jameson
SeriesHamilton, Book 1
Duration10h 12m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Family Sagas
PublisherW.F. Howes
VersionUnabridged
Maisie doesn't understand why her mother can't love her, but she knows that her life is hard and deeply unhappy. When her stepfather George, the only person she trusts, leaves, Maisie has no protector until she begins to escape. She could never be quite sure when she first met up with Hamilton; most likely it was when she started talking to herself. But she didn't call him that then; that came much later when she was fourteen and Doctor Kane had to pay her a professional visit. "Let's use our horse sense," he said, and at that precise moment what did Maisie see but a great horse galloping right over him and all the time looking at her, it's eyes full of knowledge and its lips drawn back as if in laughter. When Maisie saw the name Hamilton on the horse box, she adopted it for her new and secret companion. But if she could not talk to anyone about Hamilton, she could at least write about him. And write she did, with results that would eventually broaden her horizons far beyond the confines of her native Tyneside. But Hamilton continued to live on in her mind and became the one to save her.
Author: Catherine Cookson
Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Susan Jameson
Duration 8h 15m
Bill Bailey, the rugged Liverpudlian, was now a fully-fledged Tyneside building contractor, as staunchly loyal to his squad of workmen as they were to him. He had also met and married Fiona, a young widow with her own loveable family, to which she and Bill shortly added with the adoption of the orphaned Mamie. Life was good, but the economic climat...
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Author: Catherine Cookson
Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Elizabeth Henry
Duration 11h 30m
It is the 1920s and Kate is happily married to Dr Rodney Prince - but spiteful rumours about Kate's past seem to follow her and her illegitimate daughter Annie. Annie faces a choice between two ways of life - the middle-class existence offered by Brian Stannard and the uncertain prospects of Terence McBane, a brilliant mathematician from the under-...
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Author: Catherine Cookson
Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Sophie Roberts
Duration 9h 50m
Hannah and Humphrey Drayton were regarded by all who knew them as the perfect married couple. However, all was not as it appeared on the surface, and after years of tyranny and loneliness, Hannah could no longer bear this stuffy City broker. The only relief she had was from his absence on Thursday evenings, when pleayed bridge with a group of acqua...
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Author: Catherine Cookson
Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Susan Jameson
SeriesHamilton, Book 3
Duration 8h 35m
Catherine Cookson's well-loved novels Hamilton and Goodbye Hamilton tell the story of Maisie, who invented an imaginary horse to keep her company through the long years of an unhappy marriage, and before she became a bestselling author. In this engaging sequel, Hamilton has vanished from Maisie's life and in the days after the death of her second h...
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Author: Catherine Cookson
Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Susan Jameson
Duration 8h
As a young widow left badly off, and with three children to bring up, Fiona Nelson had come to know all the problems of trying to make ends meet. So despite the inevtably disapproving comments of her own mother, she advertised for a lodger to help pay for some of the bills. The result was Bill, somewhat rough around the edges perhaps, but nobody's...
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Author: Catherine Cookson
Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Anne Dover
Duration 1h 30m
This collection of poems draws on many themes familiar to the listeners of Catherine Cookson's novels: love, work, class and the beauty of nature. She also shares more personal thoughts, reflections on her own writing, marriage to her beloved Tom and life in the north of England. From the earliest poem included here, written in 1925 aged nineteen,...
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Author: Catherine Cookson
Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Sophie Roberts
Duration 11h 15m
Catherine Cookson was the original and bestselling saga writer, selling over 100 million copies of her novels. Just before her fifteenth birthday Jinnie Howlett is offered a position as maid-of-all-work at a farm near the Cumbrian border. She hopes this will be a welcome relief from the workhouse she knows too well. But when she meets her brutish e...
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Plainer Still: A New Personal Anthology
Author: Catherine Cookson
Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Patricia Gallimore
Duration 8h
Catherine Cookson has compiled a selection of thoughts, recollections and observations on life - and death - together with another collection of the poems she prefers to describe as 'prose on short lines'.
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Author: Catherine Cookson
Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Elizabeth Henry
Duration 17h 30m
With a harsh childhood behind him, Riley left school with little in the way of knowledge but brimful of optimism, and secure in the understanding that one of his teachers, Fred Beardsley, had faith in his future. While on his honeymoon in Paris, Fred ran into Riley, who said he had been offered a 'position' at The Little Palace Theatre in Fellburn....
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Author: Catherine Cookson
Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Patricia Gallimore
Duration 6h 30m
Alison Read, orphaned when she was two years old, had for some years lived and worked with Paul Aylmer, her appointed guardian. Paul, an experienced antique dealer whose business thrived in the southcoast town of Sealock, had come to rely on Alison, who had quickly learned the trade. But when he asked her to value the contents of Beacon Ride, a cha...
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