Winner of our Twitter competition to win new Corrie book announced

Many congratulations go to to @Jennthomp79 who has won our social media competition to win one copy of the new Mother's Day on Coronation Street book.  Well done!

There are still FOUR copies of the new ITV book to be won, along with TWO copies of signed Coronation Street scripts!  All details below.

There is a brand new Coronation Street Book!

Full of Coronation Street’s trademark humour and warmth, it’s the perfect gift for Mother’s Day.  

You can find out all about the new book here.

We have four copies of the book Mother's Day on Coronation Street to be won in a special competition here on the Coronation Street Blog!  Not only that, but two lucky winners will also receive a prize of a Coronation Street script signed by members of the cast. 

All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning one of these great prizes is to answer the following question correctly and email your answer to me at glenda.sunderland@gmail.com with MOTHERSDAY in your email subject line. Books can only be sent to addresses in the UK.  Please send your full postal address when you enter the competition. 

Here is your question, good luck!

Q: How much does the hardback copy of the book cost to buy?

Clue: Your answer can be found here.

Deadline for entries is Monday 26th February 2018 at 5pm. Winners will be drawn at random and announced here on the Coronation Street Blog.

Entries from Loquax, moneysavingsexpertforum and all other competition entry websites will not be included. 

IF YOU'D LIKE TO, YOU CAN BUY THE BOOK HERE.

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New Corrie Book: Mother's Day on Coronation Street

There is a brand new Coronation Street Book out !
Full of Coronation Street’s trademark humour and warmth, it’s the perfect gift for Mother’s Day.

It’s 1942 and Annie Walker is the landlady of the Rovers Return on Coronation Street. With her husband Jack away fighting for King and Country, Annie must juggle lone motherhood with keeping the regulars happy.

Gracie Ashton works behind the bar at the Rovers and scoffs at the daft girls who are having their heads turned by the American soldiers flooding into Weatherfield. But when she finds herself thrown together with the handsome GI, Chuck Dawson, Gracie wonders if she has her own head screwed on right.

With rationing, air raids and blackouts, the wives and mothers of Coronation Street are determined to count their blessings, but when an unwelcome face from the past turns up at the Rovers it looks like Annie will have more to worry about than Hitler’s bombs…

Author Maggie Sullivan loves to travel, is an avid reader - never going without her Kindle - and her abiding love is watching football. She is an active member of The Romantic Novelists’ Association and for several years edited their journal. She is also a freelance university lecturer and has a keen interest in drama and theatre. Maggie was born and brought up in Manchester, where she acquired a lifelong passion for Coronation Street and its legendary matriarchs. After living abroad for several years, she settled in London where she still lives.

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New Corrie book out today! Mother's Day on Coronation Street

There is a brand new Coronation Street Book out today!

Full of Coronation Street’s trademark humour and warmth, it’s the perfect gift for Mother’s Day.

It’s 1942 and Annie Walker is the landlady of the Rovers Return on Coronation Street. With her husband Jack away fighting for King and Country, Annie must juggle lone motherhood with keeping the regulars happy.

Gracie Ashton works behind the bar at the Rovers and scoffs at the daft girls who are having their heads turned by the American soldiers flooding into Weatherfield. But when she finds herself thrown together with the handsome GI, Chuck Dawson, Gracie wonders if she has her own head screwed on right.

With rationing, air raids and blackouts, the wives and mothers of Coronation Street are determined to count their blessings, but when an unwelcome face from the past turns up at the Rovers it looks like Annie will have more to worry about than Hitler’s bombs…

Author Maggie Sullivan loves to travel, is an avid reader - never going without her Kindle - and her abiding love is watching football. She is an active member of The Romantic Novelists’ Association and for several years edited their journal. She is also a freelance university lecturer and has a keen interest in drama and theatre. Maggie was born and brought up in Manchester, where she acquired a lifelong passion for Coronation Street and its legendary matriarchs. After living abroad for several years, she settled in London where she still lives.

IF YOU'D LIKE TO, YOU CAN BUY THE BOOK HERE.

And we have a very special competition here on the Coronation Street Blog later today where you can win a SIGNED CORONATION STREET SCRIPT and copies of the Mother's Day on Coronation Street book too!

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Author interview: Christmas on Coronation Street book

It's publication day today of the brand new Christmas on Coronation Street book. And we have a wonderful interview with the author of the book Maggie Sullivan which I hope you will enjoy too.  Our thanks go to Maggie for her wonderful words...

Tell us all about your new book “Christmas on Coronation Street”

"This book delivers exactly what it says on the tin. It features Coronation Street and some of its well-known characters – and a few more characters besides – from Christmas 1937 to the Manchester Blitz just prior to Christmas 1940. Apart from the plumbing, the street itself bears many similarities to the street as we knew it in the 1960s when it first came to our TV screens.

It was enormous fun to write. At times it just seemed to write itself. I particularly enjoyed getting to know the new characters, Elsie’s friends and family who never actually made it to our screens. 

ITV were very supportive throughout the process. It was agreed at the beginning who the main character would be and ultimately ITV approved all the Coronation Street characters that were included in the book. Their involvement and encouragement are invaluable.

Will fans recognise the Coronation Street they know and love from TV when they’re reading the prequel or is it set in a completely different world being so far back in time?

The book is set in a different world, and thankfully nowadays we have a few more mod cons, but apart from the indoor plumbing and the number of cars that are now on all the roads, I think the street is recognisable.  There was none of Vera’s stone cladding of course, and inside the houses have all been modernised since the time the book is set, but the outside appearance is still recognisable.

Is there an Ena Sharples type of battleaxe in the book or any other character types we might recognise? 

Ena Sharples herself appears, and is very recognizable, and Annie Walker can have a sharp word or two to say to Elsie.

When you were writing the book, were you still watching Coronation Street on TV at the same time?  Did that bring any challenges?

Yes, I am still watching, but the current story lines offer no fresh insight into the characters I am writing about.  I just enjoy them for who they are.  But each of the Coronation Street houses has a history of characters who have gone before and it is interesting to think about how the positions of the current occupants have evolved.

There’s a second book coming next year called ‘Mother’s Day on Coronation Street’, can you give us a teaser of that one? 

All I can say is look out for Annie Walker and the fascinating life she had before she came to our screens. This story goes back to the 1920s and ends in 1944 when the end of the Second World War is in sight.

With your passion for writing, do you have any other writing projects on the go at the moment?

I am primarily a writer, so I’ve always got projects on the go, including a third Corrie book to be released some time next year. So watch this space...

Christmas on Coronation Street is out today in hardback, for Kindle and audio book too.

Order it here on Amazon.

The audio book is even narrated by an ex-Corrie actress. Find out who it is!

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New Corrie book out today! Christmas on Coronation Street

New Coronation Street Book out today!

The perfect Christmas gift full of nostalgia and charm for any fan of Coronation Street.

If you'd like to, you can buy the book here.

Elsie Grimshaw lives in one of the worst streets in Weatherfield and is desperate to escape from life at home with a brutal father and the drudgery of working at the local mill. Grabbing at the slim chances that come her way, Elsie marries bad boy Arnold Tanner at only sixteen years old.

Going under her married name of Elsie Tanner, she and Arnold move in to No.11 Coronation Street in 1939 as war breaks out. Her cheeky self-confidence immediately puts her at loggerheads with local busy-body Ena Sharples, and Annie Walker, landlady of the Rovers Return.

As Christmas approaches, the residents of Coronation Street must put their petty squabbles aside if they are to survive the worst that Hitler’s Luftwaffe can throw at them. And as the Manchester Blitz grips their home town of Weatherfield, the residents must pull together to make this a Christmas to remember – for all the right reasons…

This is an exciting new partnership between HarperCollins UK and ITV which heralds the start of an evergreen proposal. Christmas on Coronation Street will be followed up with two more novels in 2018, the first to coincide with Mother’s Day. We’ll be creating innovative new stories from Coronation Street’s rich heritage that will draw on the existing fan-base and recruit a whole new audience.

Elsie Tanner, Annie Walker and Rita Fairclough were the iconic matriarchs at the heart of the early decades of Coronation Street. HarperCollins UK and ITV are creating a brand-new series of novels that revisits and reimagines their early lives, breathing fresh energy into these much-loved and fondly remembered characters.

Author Maggie Sullivan loves to travel, is an avid reader - never going without her Kindle - and her abiding love is watching football. She is an active member of The Romantic Novelists’ Association and for several years edited their journal. She is also a freelance university lecturer and has a keen interest in drama and theatre. Maggie was born and brought up in Manchester, where she acquired a lifelong passion for Coronation Street and its legendary matriarchs. After living abroad for several years, she settled in London where she still lives.

We'll have a very special competition live on the Coronation Street Blog next week where fans can win a copies of this fab new book. Stay tuned!

If you'd like to, you can buy the book here.

See also: Christmas gifts for Coronation Street fans

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