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I have now posted a new article discussing Greenwood's insufficiently  remarked enthusiasm for writing for the movies throughout his career: Walter Greenwood and Film  - Best Chris.

I have now added this new article. It introduces this important but never reprinted book and gives a synopsis of each if its  fifteen stories. I'm working on getting the collection republished, but in the meantime this will give you a sense of the kinds of story it contains and of some similarities and differences… Continue reading Walter Greenwood and Arthur Wragg’s The Cleft Stick – an Introduction

I've now added a new article on Greenwood's short stories. Walter Greenwood’s Short Stories Most were published in newspapers between the mid-thirties and the nineteen-fifties. I will add a further article devoted to his and Arthur Wragg's 1937 illustrated short story collection The Cleft Stick in due course.

I have just completed and posted a review of Greenwood's 1950 non-fiction book on Lancashire in the Robert Hale County Books Series (see under Walter Greenwood's Other Books). This completes the discussion of all his published fiction and non-fiction books. Chris Hopkins

I was a bit dismissive of Greenwood's only thriller in my book. I have now re-read it and though I still don't think it's a great thriller, I have at least now given it a more detailed review here so readers can get a sense of what kind of story it is and if there… Continue reading Only Mugs Work (1938) now reviewed in Greenwood’s Other Books