Ruth Hamilton

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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1992
  • Latest Book:
    September 2019
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Book List in Order: 34 titles

  • Billy London's Girls

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    A gripping and heart-warming saga set in Lancashire from the Sunday Times bestseller Ruth Hamilton, perfect for fans of Catherine Cookson. Guaranteed to keep you turning the page..."Very much the successor to Catherine Cookson. Her books are plot dri...

  • The September Starlings

    This moving and captivating novel will keep you glued to the page and invested from the off. From the SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, Ruth Hamilton, perfect for fans of Catherine Cookson, Dilly Court and Josephine Cox.'Very much the successor to Catherine C...

  • A Crooked Mile

    In the shadow of the Althorpe mills, the Myrtle Street residents endure cramped and often verminous conditions. Joe Duffy, a Bolton tradesman, strives to lift his family out of the 'garden' streets. But as more children are born, Joe's wife Tess s...

  • 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 man she has never met and whose twin sons are older than she is....

  • Mulligan's Yard

    Set in the 1920s in the northwest of England, this novel chronicles the lives of a new landowner and the people who live and work in Mulligan's yard, an area that is a mixture of homes and businesses....

  • Matthew & Son

    When Matthew's beloved wife Molly died, there seemed to be nothing anyone could do to console him. At the age of 16, Mark longed to earn his father's respect by assisting with the family business. Tilly Povey, watching the boy's lonely existence, res...

  • 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, now in decline and ruled by Richard Chandler, is reduced to an unhappy household and a few tenanted properties. An...

  • The Bell House

    This heart-wrenching, moving and emotional saga full of twists and turns and highlighting the importance of love and understanding by the Sunday Times bestselling author Ruth Hamilton is a must - read for fans of Catherine Cookson, Dilly Court and Jo...

  • Dorothy's War

    Dorothy has grown up in the years following the First World War, and during her bleak childhood she has always known that her family is different. Her implacable mother seems incapable of loving her, and the cruelty and deprivation she endures are wa...



  • 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 Spencer. Agnes knows there is a mystery to her own background and is determined to discover the truth about her ...

  • 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 her past life, at least. For now Leanne has been forced to start again as Lily, leaving her name, job and marriag...

  • A Parallel Life

    Eccentricity is the family byword for the Compton-Milnes The Compton-Milnes are eccentric, to say the least. A marriage between Gus, a reclusive but brilliant professor, and Lisa, a promiscuous cosmetic surgery addict, has produced Ben, an OCD-ri...

  • 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 marriage has been broken for some eighteen years. However, as the mother of twin sons and a daughter, Lucy has felt it h...

  • Sugar and Spice

    An absorbing tale of the strength and heartbreak of family ties Winter, 1940. Anna MacRae is only five years old when her mother dies in childbirth and she is left with twin baby sisters. Anna is a gifted child, with a warm personality to match, ...

  • A Whisper To The Living

    An emotional and heart-warming saga set in the Lancashire cotton mills from The Sunday Times bestseller Ruth Hamilton, perfect for fans of Catherine Cookson."Very much the successor to Catherine Cookson. Her books are plot driven, they just rip alon...

  • That Liverpool Girl

    NOT EVEN THE BOMBS THAT DESTROYED THEIR CITY COULD BREAK THEIR SPIRIT ... Three generations of strong, determined women and the war that threatened to tear them apart. In the backstreets of Liverpool, Eileen Watson lives with her mother, Nellie, daug...

  • Lights of Liverpool

    The O'Neils, who have lost brothers and sons into the bowels of London's East End, keep watch over their one remaining young male, a boy named Seamus. Hardworking and good-hearted, they cling together and help each other, and a whole community.Meanwh...

  • A Liverpool Song

    Letting go of the past to grasp the future . . . Andrew Sanderson, brilliant surgeon and renowned musician, is still grieving the death of his beloved wife Mary when his younger daughter turns up on the doorstep having left her wealthy and philanderi...

  • A Mersey Mile

    Scotland Road would never be the same . . . In 1955 the residents of Scotland Road fear for their futures when government plans threaten to demolish their street and tear apart their community. Polly's Parlour cafe is the centre for resistance, where...



  • 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 Theodore's secrets are set to remain deeply buried. Until she breezes in. Tia Bellamy: vivacious, intriguing, a nuisan...

  • Susie Solves the Case

    Susie always wanted to be a detective. She is going to have a mystery game for her birthday, but when she citizen-arrests Kinkaberry Lane's boatman, her parents decide that her obsession with crime is not nice. They cancel her mystery party and arran...

  • 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 nuns, two police officers, a philanthropist, a serial killer, a drugs cartel, Lime Street Station and a mansion i...

  • Diana and Her Crocodiles

    Diana has a problem! Pet day is coming to her school, and she needs a super awesome, amazing pet to win. So she asks her mum if she can get a pony. ‘Certainly not!’ says Mum. ‘We haven’t enough grass on the lawn!’ Then she asks her dad if s...

  • Henry and the Hot-Air Balloon

    Henry Bogwasher has a secret! He’s building a hot-air balloon with his friends to compete in the annual charity race. But can he win against the local bully, Oswald Orrid, and his super-duper store-bought pirate-ship balloon?...

  • Daughters of Penny Lane

    In 1946, Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane, having lost three sisters and her house in Bootle to the bombs that fell over Liverpool. Estranged from her husband Dan, who suffered from two strokes triggered during the Blitz, she...

  • For the Love of Liverpool

    The moving and emotional final novel from bestselling author Ruth Hamilton.In Ruth Hamilton’s For the Love of Liverpool, Kate Owen is a woman fleeing from the past. Leaving a rewarding job in London, she’s uprooted her life and given away her dau...

  • The Corner House

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    If you like Dilly Court and Catherine Cookson, you'll love this emotional and powerful story of revenge and retribution from the Sunday Times bestselling author Ruth Hamilton. "I believe that Ruth Hamilton is very much the successor to Catherine Cook...

  • The Dream Sellers

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    This captivating and moving story of dark secrets, violence and scandal by the Sunday Times bestselling author Ruth Hamilton is perfect for fans of Catherine Cookson and Dilly Court. "I believe that Ruth Hamilton is very much the successor to Catheri...

  • Miss Honoria West

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    Lose yourself in this intelligent and emotional novel with a darker edge and the superb characterisation we've come to expect from Sunday Times bestselling author Ruth Hamilton. Fans of Catherine Cookson, Dilly Court and Josephine Cox won't be disapp...



  • Nest of Sorrows

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    This emotional and uplifting saga full of twists and turns by the Sunday Times bestselling author Ruth Hamilton is a must - read for fans of Catherine Cookson, Dilly Court and Josephine Cox."I believe that Ruth Hamilton is very much the successor to ...

  • Paradise Lane

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    This dramatic, heart-wrenching and emotional saga full of twists and turns, leading up to a violent and terrible climax, by the Sunday Times bestselling author Ruth Hamilton is a must - read for fans of Catherine Cookson, Dilly Court and Josephine Co...

  • Saturday's Child

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  • Spinning Jenny

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    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. When Jenny gets a chance to better herself, she finds a household as dangerous and weird as the one she left behind....

  • With Love from MA Maguire

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    Perfect for fans of Catherine Cookson, a moving and emotional saga of fierce passions set in the Lancashire cotton mills from the Sunday Times bestseller Ruth Hamilton. "Very much the successor to Catherine Cookson. Her books are plot driven, they ju...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ruth Hamilton has published 34 books.

Ruth Hamilton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, For the Love of Liverpool, was published in September 2019.

The first book by Ruth Hamilton, Billy London's Girls, was published in January 1992.

No. Ruth Hamilton does not write books in series.
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