Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group Limited, 1999
ISBN 10: 0316853577 ISBN 13: 9780316853576
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, London, 2004
ISBN 10: 1841198455 ISBN 13: 9781841198453
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. This is a real life detective story, tracking down the missing father of one of Britain's most famous authors - the father she didn't want anyone to know about! Best selling author Catherine Cookson created a profoundly affecting literature out of the personal tragedies of her working class upbringing and early life in the industrial North East. Her biographer gives this account of her search to discover the truth of Cookson's childhood and the mystery of her father's identity. As the story unfolds, the reader is led to a deeper understanding of the demons that drove Cookson to become one of the most popular novelists of her day. It is a story of terrible poverty, of harsh lessons learnt generation after generation, but also of hope and eventual reconciliation. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Time Warner Books Uk, 2000
ISBN 10: 0751530336 ISBN 13: 9780751530339
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.
Verlag: Time Warner Books Uk, 2000
ISBN 10: 0751530336 ISBN 13: 9780751530339
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group Limited, 2000
ISBN 10: 0751530336 ISBN 13: 9780751530339
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group Limited, 2004
ISBN 10: 1841198455 ISBN 13: 9781841198453
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Erstausgabe
Zustand: Very Good. 1St Edition. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Zustand: As New. Like New condition. Very Good dust jacket. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.
Verlag: Time Warner Paperbacks, 2000
ISBN 10: 0751530336 ISBN 13: 9780751530339
Anbieter: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, London, 1999
ISBN 10: 0094793700 ISBN 13: 9780094793705
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Born into one of Western Europe's most deprived areas, Catherine Cookson lived an eventful and fulfilling life. Her life story, as told by Kathleen Jones, is as dramatic as any of her best-selling novels. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Little, Brown & Company, 1999
ISBN 10: 0316853577 ISBN 13: 9780316853576
Anbieter: WeBuyBooks 2, Rossendale, LANCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.
Verlag: Little, Brown & Company, United States, New York, 1999
ISBN 10: 0316853577 ISBN 13: 9780316853576
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. One of the most popular writers of the 20th century, Catherine Cookson's story is as dramatic as any of her novels. Born in 1906, the illegitimate daughter of a domestic servant, she was brought up in Tyneside in one of the poorest communities of the western world. Her mother once begged barefoot from door to door and they lived in constant fear of the workhouse. But Catherine was determined to escape her situation and did so with enormous courage and energy, making her her way out of the slums of her childhood. After a tragic series of stillbirths and miscarriages, she attempted to "write it all out". All of her 97 novels are still in print. But the damage she suffered as a child left Cookson vulnerable and her health precarious. In this biography, Kathleen Jones has delved into early drafts of Cookson's own autobiography, and has also used as background the hours of privately taped conversation in which Cookson discusses much that she chose to keep secret in her own lifetime: her tortured feelings for her mother, her own mental torment and terrors, and her intense and devastating relationship with Nan Smith, who almost succeeded in wrecking Catherine's marriage. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Time Warner Paperbacks, 2000
ISBN 10: 0751530336 ISBN 13: 9780751530339
Anbieter: Reuseabook, Gloucester, GLOS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading. Damaged cover. The cover of is slightly damaged for instance a torn or bent corner.
Verlag: Constable, 1999
ISBN 10: 0094793700 ISBN 13: 9780094793705
Anbieter: Reuseabook, Gloucester, GLOS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Used; Very Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine. Ripped/damaged jacket. The dust jacket of this book is slightly damaged/ripped, however, this does not affect the internal condition.
Verlag: Little, Brown and Company, 1999
ISBN 10: 0316853577 ISBN 13: 9780316853576
Anbieter: Reuseabook, Gloucester, GLOS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading.
Verlag: Time Warner Paperbacks, 2000
ISBN 10: 0751530336 ISBN 13: 9780751530339
Anbieter: Reuseabook, Gloucester, GLOS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Used; Very Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.
Verlag: The Book Mill, 2018
ISBN 10: 0993204597 ISBN 13: 9780993204593
Anbieter: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: VeryGood. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Signed by Author(Unverified).
Verlag: BCA, 1999
ISBN 10: 0094793700 ISBN 13: 9780094793705
Anbieter: Alpha 2 Omega Books BA, Southampton, HANTS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. VGC.BCA edition by arrangement with Constable & Co,1999.Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj(small crease and nick on the Dj cover),both in VGC.Illustrated with b/w photos.Nice and clean pages with a small nick on the edges,inscription written inside the back cover.Nice and clean book.353pp including List of illustrations,notes and sources,bibliography,index.BCA edition. This is another paragraph Review: With a life as inherently dramatic as that of any of her heroines, novelist Catherine Cookson is the perfect subject for a biography. The facts are astonishing, giving substance to the accepted wisdom that life is often stranger than fiction. Born and brought up in domestic service in Tyneside, the young Cookson was shocked to discover that the woman she had accepted as her sister was in fact her mother, the disgrace of illegitimacy necessitating duplicity. Growing up in abject poverty, surrounded by relatives who either drank or simply sunk into despondency, Cookson was starved of any creative outlet but determined to break free of the dismal destiny that seemed to await her. By her early 20s, by dint of sheer industry, she had gained financial independence and within two decades was well on the way to becoming a successful writer. Jones is a sympathetic, eminently fair biographer, and has written a compulsively readable study of a remarkable, contradictory woman; indeed the book carries the same sort of narrative momentum to be found in the best of Cookson's fiction.