Glenda Young Books in Order

Glenda Young traces Richard Hillman’s story on Coronation Street from his arrival to the violence that engulfed the Platt family. A continuous account revisits the relationships, deceptions and crimes that made him one of the programme’s notorious figures.

This illustrated account follows Deirdre Barlow through four decades on Coronation Street. Relationships, family conflicts and memorable storylines combine with photographs and quotations to revisit the fictional life of one of the programme’s best-known characters.

Collected posts from the Coronation Street Blog capture fans’ responses to the long-running television soap. Character tributes, favorite moments, criticism, and affectionate arguments bring together several contributors’ perspectives on what keeps the show meaningful to its audience.

Carla Connor’s first decade on Coronation Street unfolds as a continuous account of her changing life. Sieges, disasters, addiction, and complicated relationships trace the character’s personal struggles and the dramatic events that have shaped her place in the television soap.

This collection brings together family stories previously published in The People’s Friend. Young turns her attention to personal relationships and everyday lives, gathering short fiction centered on the warmth and emotional connections within families.

After tragedy leaves her supporting her family, Meg continues her father’s rag-and-bone business through Ryhope’s back streets. A threatening rent collector and two very different men complicate her struggle for independence and a chance at happiness.

Family life supplies the subject of this short-story collection, which gathers fiction first published in The People’s Friend. Young approaches her characters and their relationships with humor, offering a selection of stories grounded in domestic experience.

Young gathers family stories originally published in The People’s Friend magazine. The collection approaches ordinary relationships through humor and affection, bringing together short fiction concerned with the connections that shape life within a family.

Five Christmas stories bring together seasonal short fiction first published in The People’s Friend and My Weekly. Young’s collection approaches the festive period through an affectionate lens, offering brief stories written around the emotions and warmth of Christmas.

Seventeen-year-old Sadie arrives in Ryhope seeking work while secretly searching for the baby taken from her at birth. A tiny birthmark is her only clue, and a figure from her past threatens the fragile life she is building.

Raised by an aunt who supports them through prostitution, Pearl faces pressure to follow the same path when poverty closes in. Refusing that future, she runs away with nothing and struggles to build a life on her own terms.

Young mill worker Ruth supports her ailing parents and sister on meagre wages. When tragedy leaves a baby in her care, a threatening figure jeopardizes the family’s safety, testing the strength she draws from friendship and new love.

After her husband’s death, hotel owner Helen Dexter welcomes a troupe of Elvis impersonators to Scarborough. When one guest is murdered, she and her greyhound Suki investigate before the crime destroys the future of the Seaview Hotel.

Found as a baby with a scarlet ribbon, Jess is raised by a housekeeper under orders to conceal her origins. After her guardian dies, eviction from her childhood home sends her searching for the truth about a powerful family.

Seventeen-year-old Ruby loses her job just as her struggling mining family faces another mouth to feed. Courtship by a charming miner promises happiness, but a painful betrayal tests the love and determination sustaining the Dinsdales.

An acting troupe arrives at Helen Dexter’s hotel hoping to save a local theatre, but its leading lady is murdered. Joining the production gives Helen a chance to investigate while threats and an approaching inspection endanger her business.

A visiting crazy-golf team brings tension to the Seaview Hotel, followed by a murder on the course. With her cook threatening to leave and unwanted birthday plans unfolding, Helen Dexter searches for the killer beside her greyhound Suki.

Orphaned sisters Poppy and Rose are separated after their guardian sells one of them to a stranger. Years later, a letter reveals Rose’s fate, sending Poppy on a determined search to bring her beloved sister home.

Glenda Young revisits Roy and Hayley Cropper’s relationship on Coronation Street, from their first meeting to Hayley’s departure. Written as a companion for viewers, the account follows the events that shaped the couple’s life together on screen.

Three women begin work at a Durham toffee factory during the First World War. As secrets, romance and unexpected opportunities change their lives, Anne, Elsie and Hetty build a friendship that helps them face uncertainty together.

A ballroom troupe’s stay at the Seaview Hotel turns deadly when rivalry among the dancers ends in murder. Hotel owner Helen Dexter, her cook Jean and her greyhound Suki investigate the secrets concealed beneath the sequins.

Wartime sugar rationing threatens the toffee factory where Anne, Elsie and Hetty work. Romantic complications and hidden family histories place each woman under pressure, making their shared trust essential as they fight to protect their futures.

The war has ended, but the toffee factory still faces an uncertain future. Anne pursues a new product, Elsie searches for romance and Hetty faces a difficult choice, while old troubles threaten the hope of peace.

Helen Dexter welcomes a reunited eighties pop band to her hotel for a major comeback performance. Old tensions, concealed histories and a replacement guitarist unsettle the group, and a death during rehearsals gives Helen another mystery to solve.

In Sunderland in 1902, orphan Rose Lumley uses her talent for baking to support her grandmother after family tragedy. Work at the bakery that once employed her mother offers hope and the chance to repay its owners’ kindness.