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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

  Much of Walter Greenwood’s other fiction refers back to his first novel, Love on the Dole (1933), and so it should be helpful to start with a review for his first novel too, though it is his most famous.  Love on the Dole established Greenwood’s reputation, was influential at the time and  later, and… Continue reading Walter Greenwood, Love on the Dole (1933)

Book review by Chris Hopkins. Keen as I am on Greenwood’s fiction, I think that  his highly novelistic memoir There Was a Time is one of his best pieces of writing, and perhaps the best in some ways. It was his last published prose work and was written after more than thirty years experience of being… Continue reading There Was a Time (1967)

Walter Greenwood is best remembered for Love on the Dole (1933), but he went on writing until the nineteen sixties and remained a popular author. I recently read his last novel and thought it reflected interestingly on his thoughts about later working-class life (depicted in leisure-mode on the dust-wrapper by Douglas Hall in a style… Continue reading Saturday Night at the Crown (1959) by Walter Greenwood