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1 July 2018.  I have now completed work on the dust-wrappers and cover designs of Standing Room Only (1936), The Secret Kingdom (1938) and Something in My Heart (1944). See the Dust-wrapper pages - Chris Hopkins  

Liverpool University Press have posted a short interview with me about WG on their blog. It might be of interest: https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/blogs/english-literature/walter-greenwoods-love-on-the-dole-10-minutes-with-chris-Hopkins  

26 April 2018. I have now completed the page which discusses all the dust-wrappers and cover designs of Love on the Dole since 1933 (but do let me know of any others I've missed). 30 April 2018. The section on the  cover designs of his second novel, His Worship the Mayor (1934) is now complete for… Continue reading Latest Walter Greenwood News

Walter Greenwood is well-known for his novel Love on the Dole (1933), which is remembered as the iconic British novel of the Depression. By 1940 it had sold some 46, 290 copies in the UK, and had been seen in a stage adaptation by some 3 million people in Britain. Love on the Dole was… Continue reading The Cleft Stick (1937) by Walter Greenwood and Arthur Wragg

  Having now posted reviews about most of Walter Greenwood’s other fiction, I realise that these pretty much all refer to his first novel, Love on the Dole (1933), and so for the sake of completeness, I ought to add a review for his first novel too, though it is his most famous.  Love on… Continue reading Walter Greenwood, Love on the Dole (1933)