Out now:
'Gifts for My Friends and Other Stories' by Hugh Walpole.
(Hugh Walpole Society & Grayswood Press).
A second collection of previously uncollected stories.
Edited by Rod Boroughs, Foreword & Notes by Society Chairman Nicholas Redman, Introduction by Dr John Cameron Hartley
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Sorry to jump on here Patrick, but this is out, with the article about your research into Hugh Walpole's bout with Wee Willie Davis!
DM us, or 'chat', with an address, & we'll send you a free copy.
Thanks again - great research!

The latest issue of 'The Hugh Walpole Review', Vol. 6, Number 2, Autumn 2025.

Coming soon
'Gifts for My Friends and Other Stories'
from those nice people at The Hugh Walpole Society
& Grayswood Press.

Here.

The significance to Hugh Walpole of the places mentioned above is best elucidated in the article, ‘Hugh Walpole at Durham School’, in the Spring 2025 issue of the Hugh Walpole Review.

The original manuscript for Hugh Walpole’s 1936 novel ‘A Prayer for My Son’ has been unearthed in Australia, where it was part of a private collection.

Here are some pictures of the limited signed edition of the novel, as published by Macmillan

Out now, the latest issue of The Hugh Walpole Review.

90 pages of essays and articles on the author, his life and works, plus anecdotes and letters as part of the regular 'Walpoliana' section.

In 1941, in the midst of a #WorldWar, & prior to his own premature death, Hugh Walpole foresaw a Socialist future: an end to vast personal fortunes; a redistribution of wealth; equal access to a public school standard of education; equal access to the arts; & a return to Christian values.

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Joining the Hugh Walpole Society brings two packed review journals a year, with articles covering Walpole’s life and works, his literary milieu, and some forays into the #Gothic

Not only that, In 2025 there are trips to #EpsomCollege in March, & #DurhamSchool in May.

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Writers Frank Swinnerton and Charles Morgan both deplored Hugh Walpole’s literary excursions into the uncanny, complaining of his 'wild excursions into the macabre'.

And yet, it as a writer of stories which chime with an expanded #Gothic aesthetic, that Hugh Walpole has appeared again in print.

Some of the books written about Hugh Walpole.

Rex Whistler's illustrations for the dust-jacket and title-page of Hugh Walpole's 'Four Fantastic Tales' (1932).

In 2023 the Hugh Walpole Society published 'Red Amber and Other Stories', a volume of Hugh Walpole's uncollected short stories.