A MUM who left school at the age of 15 is being hailed as the next Catherine Cookson after her work was picked up by a top publishing house. Emma Hornby, aged 33, is celebrating the publication of her ...

The Bondage of Love is the latest of prolific and popular U.K. novelist Catherine Cookson's books to appear in America since her death in 1998. It concerns the havoc wrought on the lives of Bill and ...

Cookson's 100th book, posthumously published, rounds off her oeuvre, but is more memorable for its landmark status than its content. Set in England's Northumberland countryside in the early 20th ...