• The Fifteen Streets (1989) starring Sean Bean and Jane Horrocks, which became hugely successful.
• The Black Velvet Gown (1991), with Janet McTeer, Bob Peck, Geraldine Somerville won the International Emmy award for best drama. In 1994,
• The Cinder Path with Catherine Zeta-Jones, Tracy Whitwell and Ray Stevenson in The Dwelling Place.
• The Tide of Life (1996) with Gillian Kearney and future Rome co-star James Purefoy.
• The 1995 adaption of The Gambling Man starring Robson Green.
• The Mallens (1979—1980) with John Hallam and Juliet Stevenson;
• The Black Candle (1991) with Nathaniel Parker and Samantha Bond;
• The Man Who Cried (1993) with Ciarán Hinds and Amanda Root;
• The Glass Virgin (1995) with Nigel Havers, Emily Mortimer and Brendan Coyle;
• The Girl (1996) with Jonathan Cake and Siobhan Flynn;
• The Moth (1997) with Jack Davenport, Juliet Aubrey and Justine Waddell;
• The Rag Nymph (1997) with Honeysuckle Weeks, Alec Newman and Val McLane;
• The Wingless Bird (1997) with Claire Skinner, Anne Reid and Julian Wadham;
• Colour Blind (1997) with Niamh Cusack, Tony Armatrading, Art Malik, and Carmen Ejogo;
• The Round Tower (1997) with Emilia Fox, Ben Miles and Denis Lawson;
• Tilly Trotter (1998) with Carli Norris and Simon Shepherd;
• The Secret (1999) with Colin Buchanan, Hannah Yelland, Elizabeth Carling and Clare Higgins;
• A Dinner of Herbs (2000) with Jonathan Kerrigan, Melanie Clark Pullen, Debra Stephenson, David Threlfall and Billie Whitelaw.

• The Fifteen Streets (1952)
• Colour Blind (1953)
• Maggie Rowan (1954)
• Rooney (1957)
• The Menagerie (1958)
• Fanny McBride (1959)
• Fenwick Houses (1960)
• The Garment (1962)
• The Blind Miller (1963)
• The Wingless Bird (1964)
• Hannah Massey (1964)
• The Long Corridor (1965)
• The Unbaited Trap (1966)
• Slinky Jane (1967)
• Katie Mulholland (1967)
• The Round Tower (1968)
• The Nice Bloke (1969) aka The Husband (1969)
• The Glass Virgin (1969)
• The Invitation (1970)
• The Dwelling Place (1971)
• Feathers in the Fire (1971)
• Pure as the Lily (1972)
• The Invisible Cord (1975)
• The Gambling Man (1975)
• The Tide of Life (1976)
• The Girl (1977)
• The Cinder Path (1978)
• The Man Who Cried (1979)
• The Whip (1983) aka The Spaniard's Gift (1989)
• The Black Velvet Gown (1984)
• The Bannaman Legacy (1985) aka A Dinner of Herbs (1985)
• The Moth (1986) aka The Thorman Inheritance (1989)
• The Parson's Daughter (1987)
• The Harrogate Secret (1988) aka The Secret
• The Cultured Handmaiden (1988)
• The Spaniard's Gift (1989) aka The Whip (1983)
• The Black Candle (1989)
• The Thorman Inheritance (1989) aka The Moth (1986)
• The Gillyvors (1990) aka The Love Child (1991)
• My Beloved Son (1991)
• The Rag Nymph (1991) aka The Forester Girl (1993)
• The House of Women (1992)
• The Maltese Angel (1992)
• The Golden Straw (1993)
• The Forester Girl (1993) aka The Rag Nymph (1991)
• The Year of the Virgins (1993)
• The Tinker's Girl (1994)
• Justice Is a Woman (1994)
• A Ruthless Need (1995)
• The Bonny Dawn (1996)
• The Branded Man (1996)
• The Lady on my Left (1997) aka The Mists of Memory (1965) by Catherine Marchant
• The Obsession (1997)
• The Upstart (1998)
• The Blind Years (1998)
• Riley (1998)
• Solace of Sin (1998)
• The Desert Crop (1999)
• The Thursday Friend (1999)
• A House Divided (2000)
• Rosie of the River (2000)
• The Simple Soul and Other Stories (2001)
• Silent Lady (2002)

The Hamilton series

• Hamilton (1983)
• Goodbye Hamilton (1984)
• Harold (1985)

The Kate Hannigan series

• Kate Hannigan (1950)
• Kate Hannigan's Girl (2001)

The Mallen Novels

• The Mallen Streak (1973)
• The Mallen Girl (1974)
• The Mallen Litter (1974)

The Tilly Trotter trilogy

• Tilly Trotter aka Tilly (1980)
• Tilly Trotter Wed aka Tilly Wed (1981)
• Tilly Trotter Widowed aka Tilly Alone (1982)

The Bill Bailey trilogy

• Bill Bailey (1986)
• Bill Bailey's Lot (1987) aka Bill Bailey's Litter
• Bill Bailey's Daughter (1988)
• The Bondage of Love (1997)

The Mary Ann stories

• A Grand Man (1954)
• The Lord and Mary Ann (1956)
• The Devil and Mary Ann (1958)
• Love and Mary Ann (1961)
• Life and Mary Ann (1962)
• Marriage and Mary Ann (1964)
• Mary Ann's Angels (1965)
• Mary Ann and Bill (1967)

Children's stories

• Matty Doolin (1965)
• Joe and the Gladiator (1968)
• The Nipper (1970)
• Blue Baccy (1972) aka Rory's Fortune (1988)
• Our John Willie (1974)
• Mrs Flannagan's Trumpet (1976)
• Go Tell It to Mrs Golightly (1977)
• Lanky Jones (1981)
• Nancy Nutall and the Mongrel (1982)
• Rory's Fortune (1988) aka Blue Baccy (1972)
• Bill and The Mary Ann Shaughnessy (1991)

Written as Catherine Marchant

• Heritage of Folly (1961) aka Heritage of Folly (1961) by Katie McMullen
• The Fen Tiger (1963) aka The House on the Fens (1963)
• House of Men (1963)
• The Mists of Memory (1965) aka The Lady on my Left (1997) by Catherine Cookson
• The Iron Facade (1965) aka Evil at Rodgers Cross (1965)
• Miss Martha Mary Crawford (1975)
• The Slow Awakening (1976)

Written as Katie McMullen

• Heritage of Folly (1961) aka Heritage of Folly (1961) by Catherine Marchant

Autobiographies

• Our Kate (1969)
• Catherine Cookson Country (1986) aka My Land of the North (1999)
• Let Me Make Myself Plain (1988)
• Plainer Still (1995)
• Just A Saying (2002)

• To Be a Lady: Biography of Catherine Cookson by Cliff Goodwin (1994)
• The Girl From Leam Lane: The Life and Writing of Catherine Cookson by Piers Dudgeon (1997)
• Cookson by Kathleen Jones Constable(1999)
• Kate's Daughter: The Real Catherine Cookson by Piers Dudgeon (2003)
• Catherine Cookson's Da by Kathleen Jones Constable (2004)