It's time for Will to open his wheels shop...

His first customer is Fireman Fred. Do you think he will buy some rollerskates,

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Known as Shaggy to his mates, Greenwood is one of the sport's most engaging, intelligent, outspoken & witty characters. A Lancastrian to the tips of this size 12 boots, the giant centre has been & automatic choice in the England XV since his debut against Australia in 1997.

A few months earlier he looked set to become only the third uncapped Englishman to play for the British Lions when he came within a whisker of losing his life after he was speared to the ground in a heavy tackle, lost consciousness & swallowed his tongue.

After taking several months to recover he quickly made & impact at international level following a widespread clamour in the press for his call-up to the England side. An elegant riposte to the old jibe that England players lack guile & imagination, the Harlequins' & former Leicester centre has brought a shimmering, magical quality to his team's back play, opening up defences with clever angled running, superb distribution & a gravity-defying ability to stay up in the tackle.

Greenwood also featured in England's doomed World Cup campaign in 1999 before playing a central role in the team's dramatic triumph in Australia four years later.

His life off the pitch has been no less eventful, he & his wife Caro having experienced extreme despair & joy in recent years with the loss of one son, Freddie, & the birth of another, Archie.
Greenwood takes time to reflect in this revealing, honest, funny & moving book.








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The son of former England international & coach Dick Greenwood, Lions & England centre Will Greenwood has played club rugby for Waterloo, Preston Grasshoppers, Leicester Tigers & Harlequins. He was the only uncapped player chosen for the 1997 Lions tour, which nearly ended in disaster when he was seriously injured after a tackle left him unconscious in the game against Free State. Fortunately he made a return from his injuries, & made his England debut against Australia in November 1997. Greenwood was named man-of-the-match in England's Six Nations victories over Scotl&, Wales & Italy in 2002. Back to his best & a regular in the England side, his tries were central to England's good run of form in late 2000 & early 2001, & his contribution to the victorious England Rugby world cup winning team only went further to cement what has been a remarkable career. Here, for the first time, Will Greenwood tells his story. From his childhood growing up in his father's shadow, to his determination to overcome huge personal loss to achieve his sporting ambition following the tragic death of his prematurely born son Freddy, Greenwood will reveal all; including of course, what it was like to have been a member of the team that will go down in sporting history, the 2003 England World Cup winning rugby team. He will give us unprecedented insights into how the team coped with the stresses & strains of the competition, & how he himself overcame personal fears after his wife Carol, pregnant with their second child, was rushed to hospital with complications
- he flew home hours after helping England beat South Africa & returned to Australia in time for England's decisive matches, including the final against Australia. Greenwood will tell us what the atmosphere was like in the dressing room, both before & after that incredible final match, & also how he is coping with his new celebrity status, the unparalleled press attention & what it was like receiving his honours from the Queen.
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Known as Shaggy to his mates, Greenwood is one of the sport's most engaging, intelligent, outspoken & witty characters. A Lancastrian to the tips of this size 12 boots, the giant centre has been & automatic choice in the England XV since his debut against Australia in 1997.

A few months earlier he looked set to become only the third uncapped Englishman to play for the British Lions when he came within a whisker of losing his life after he was speared to the ground in a heavy tackle, lost consciousness & swallowed his tongue.

After taking several months to recover he quickly made & impact at international level following a widespread clamour in the press for his call-up to the England side. An elegant riposte to the old jibe that England players lack guile & imagination, the Harlequins' & former Leicester centre has brought a shimmering, magical quality to his team's back play, opening up defences with clever angled running, superb distribution & a gravity-defying ability to stay up in the tackle.

Greenwood also featured in England's doomed World Cup campaign in 1999 before playing a central role in the team's dramatic triumph in Australia four years later.

His life off the pitch has been no less eventful, he & his wife Caro having experienced extreme despair & joy in recent years with the loss of one son, Freddie, & the birth of another, Archie.
Greenwood takes time to reflect in this revealing, honest, funny & moving book.








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William & Harry is a fascinating insight into the lives & loves of two extraordinary young men who have captured not only ...

Iconoclast; visionary; homosexual crusader; drug advocate; teacher & elder statesman to Jack Kracouac, Allen Ginsberg & the Beats; anti-hero guru to each successive counter-culture generation: Willaim Burroughs remains one of the most complex & controversial American writers of the twentieth century.
A longtime heroin addict, Burroughs preferred to live abroad, away from America's Draconian drug laws. After killing his wife in a bizarre shooting accident, he moved to Tangier where he lived in male brothel & wrote his celebrated bestseller Naked Lunch
- in Newsweek's words 'A masterpiece. A cry from Hell'
- as a series of letters to Allen Ginsberg. He lived at the Beat Hotel in Paris & spent a decade in London before returning as prodigal son to New York in 1974 after 25 years of self imposed exile.


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Iconoclast; visionary; homosexual crusader; drug advocate; teacher & elder statesman to Jack Kracouac, Allen Ginsberg & the Beats; anti-hero guru to each successive counter-culture generation: Willaim Burroughs remains one of the most complex & controversial American writers of the twentieth century.
A longtime heroin addict, Burroughs preferred to live abroad, away from America's Draconian drug laws. After killing his wife in a bizarre shooting accident, he moved to Tangier where he lived in male brothel & wrote his celebrated bestseller Naked Lunch
- in Newsweek's words 'A masterpiece. A cry from Hell'
- as a series of letters to Allen Ginsberg. He lived at the Beat Hotel in Paris & spent a decade in London before returning as prodigal son to New York in 1974 after 25 years of self imposed exile.


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William Kent (1685-1748) was great without a hint of gravitas, a con man who became one of the artistic geniuses of his age. He was a high camp Yorkshire bachelor, brought back by Lord Burlington from an artistic apprenticeship in Rome where he had painted for a cardinal & won prizes from a pope. In London he charmed the surly old Hanoverian King George I, redecorated Kensington Palace for him with a clumsy bravura, & survived the subsequent critical storm ...

William Kent (1685-1748) was great without a hint of gravitas, a con man who became one of the artistic geniuses of his ...

Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie is one of history's greatest heroes, but also one of its greatest enigmas
- a shadowy figure
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