Aileen Armitage: 12 books

‘The whole idea is preposterous. One can’t marry a first cousin!’Particularly for cousins whose mothers have ignored each other for the best part of twenty years. Yet Amy Mallinson is bewildered by her deep feelings for her handsome cousin Charles – far above her in the social scale – and...

This sequel to "Chapter of Innocence", which continues the story of Eva Bowe. Away from her beloved from her beloved Yorkshire home, Eva Bower, whom we first met as an outrageous, enchanting nine year old in Chapter of Innocence, has embarked on her university career with a characteristic...

Two lonely children, neglected in their Victorian nursery form a tragic bond on the wild Yorkshire moors. While the dramas of life, death and madness swirl around their family, like smoke from the mill chimneys nearby, Constance and William cling together and swear a pact in blood that they will...

When charismatic Vincent Gregg becomes the valley’s first socialist MP it is the realisation of the Pearson family’s dream. But his philandering ways soon lose him his seat. Given a second chance by the Great War, Gregg enlists as a private, but once again finds himself torn between greed and...

Jericho Farm, high in the Pennines, has been in the Hemingway family for generations. Although life on the farm was hard, the place has a rugged compulsion for those who lived and worked there. But now James Hemingway was thinking of breaking with tradition and selling up. With his wife tragically...

In the far-off 1950s, Irish shop girl Rosa Sheridan is seduced under the arches of Clondarra's village bridge. To escape from the stigma of being a fallen woman, she escapes to England, where she makes a new life for herself in Hawksmoor. But she can never forget the baby which she was persuaded...

In the year 1811, Hawksmoor is a growing town surrounded by all the splendour of the northern moorland. This is the dramatic story of the people who helped it grow. The Hardcastles are the wealthy mill-owners – the landed gentry who rule the town with an iron hand. The Scotts belong to the poor...

May Turnbull had been born and raised in Cedar Street. When the chance came for her to better herself in Rose’s soft furnishing workroom, she seized it with everything she had. At home with her father crippled in a mine accident, a mother who kept the family together by taking in laundry and two...

Maddie Renshaw is 20 and lives a lonely life working with James her harshly domineering father on their crumbling, isolated sheep farm Scapegoat, high on the Yorkshire moors. Maddie’s only joy is Duster her mare and the long, exhilarating rides they both enjoy across the wild and treacherous moors....

Hawksmoor is set amid the brooding splendour of the Yorkshire moors, a prosperous Victorian town, its throbbing mills weaving wealth for the few. Cedric Moorhouse, its new and ambitious mayor, is anxious to impress the town’s most influential families. But his spirited daughter Violet refuses to...

After the funeral of Max and Maddie Bower, twenty-two year old Leah decides the time has come to seek her independence. She refuses to work any longer in her mother’s business and needing both a job and a place to stay she approaches Clay Richards – an old family acquaintance and now arch enemy....

?It was then she became aware that Mrs Blackstock was eyeing her with a thoughtful, faraway look,  Joanna had a weird sensation that was being mentally taken apart and examined, bit by bit?.? Suddenly left alone in the world, Joanna Forrest and her younger sister slowly come to terms...