Ruth Hamilton művei

Matthew and Son

Mark’s mother, Molly, had been sick since he was a small boy. He was 16 when she died and he grieved as heavily as his father, Matthew, a...

Mulligan's Yard

It all began with the turn of a card in a seedy gambling den... In 1920 the Burton-Masseys lost their home, Pendleton Grange, their lands...

A Whisper to the Living

Annie Byrne was born during one of the worst winters Lancashire ever remembered. When the doctor finally got through the nine-foot drifts...

Midnight on Lime Street

What possible connections might exist between an aged man who used to sell shoes, some ladies of the night, three abused schoolboys, two ...

The Bell House

Madeleine Horrocks often alarmed her best friend Amy by expressing doubts – about parents, teachers and, most of all, religion. Amy had a...

A Liverpool Song

Letting go of the past to grasp the future . . . Andrew Sanderson, brilliant surgeon and renowned musician, is still grieving the death o...

A Mersey Mile

In 1955 Scotland Road residents fear for their futures when government plans threaten to demolish their road and tear apart their communi...

Mersey View

At the age of 45, Lucy Henshaw has finally left home. Her decision to go has been reached neither lightly nor suddenly, since her marriag...

The Judge's Daughter

Agnes Makepeace has always been courageous and strong-minded and on the surface, she couldn’t be more unlike the chilly, reserved Helen S...

Saturday's Child

There are three of them - of varying ages and conditions of life - all Saturday's children. Nellie - cruelly called Smelly Nelly by he...

Spinning Jenny

The story of a young orphan girl's struggle to free herself of a tyrannical aunt and escape the poverty of Lancashire's cotton mills. Whe...

With love from ma Maguire

A saga spanning 40 years of life in the Lancashire cotton mills. This book tells of the lives and loves of two families from different ba...

Matthew & Son

When Matthew's beloved wife Moly died, long before her time, her son Mark grieved as much as anyone. He had always known that his parents...

The September Starlings

Laura, now wealthy and successful, had survived a bitter past and endured poverty, fear and pain. Then along had come the older and wiser...

The Corner House

When Bernard Walsh moved his family from Bolton to Liverpool he did not expect the past to pursue him. But then Theresa Nolan, consumptiv...

The Corner House

When, one dark night in 1939, young Theresa was brutally raped by three young men, it was the beginning of a series of tragic and dramati...

The Bells Of Scotland Road

To the Liverpool of the 1930s came Bridget O'Brien, a young widow with two children, about to be forced into marriage with a man she had ...

The Bells Of Scotland Road

Set in Liverpool in the 1930s, Bridget O'Brien, a young widow with two children, arrives from Ireland to start a new life married to a ma...

The Judge's Daughter - The Reading Room

The Dream Sellers

Wealthy mill owner, Edward Shawcross, had been a penniless young man until he married the daughter of the Fishwick family. The Fishwicks ...

Billy London's Girls

The people of Lancashire called him Billy London, although that wasn't his real name. But he came from London's East End and settled in t...

The Reading Room

Leanne Chalmers has made a career for herself presenting her own style of home decorating and design on the nation’s screens. That was he...

A Crooked Mile

In the shadow of the Althorpe mills, the Myrtle Street residents endure cramped and often verminous conditions. Joe Duffy, a Bolton trad...

With love from ma Maguire

This is a saga spanning 40 years of life in the Lancashire cotton mills. It tells of the lives and loves of two families from different b...

Chandlers Green

The Chandlers had been making candles in Bolton for 500 years, and had given their name to the village of Chandlers Green. The dynasty, n...

Nest of sorrows

Kate Murray's father rejected her from birth. Knowing from the start that there could be no more children, and therefore no son and heir,...

The Corner House

Meet Me at the Pier Head

To save a child, they would sacrifice everything . . . Comfortably settled into his expatriate life in post-war Britain, Headmaster Theod...