Novels
Coco and Igor was first published in the UK in 2002 by Headline Review and has since been translated into several languages, including French, Russian, Polish, Greek, and Chinese. The novel is based on the supposed affair between Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky in Paris in 1920.
Greenhalgh’s second novel,
The Cool End of Red, is set in Paris, after the end of the Second World War. Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman and war photographer Robert Capa begin an intense and reckless affair, but the rigours of their work and the risk of exposure threaten to overwhelm the lovers.
Film scripts
Greenhalgh has written a screenplay adapting his novel
Coco and Igor. This has now been filmed as
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, directed by Jan Kounen and starring Anna Mouglalis and Mads Mikkelsen.
The 2009 Cannes Film Festival selected
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky to be shown in its prestigious closing slot, on 24 May 2009.
Poetry
, Greenhalgh has published three volumes of poetry, all with Bloodaxe Books.
- Stealing the Mona Lisa (1994)
- Of Love, Death and the Sea-Squirt (2000)
- The Invention of Zero (2007)