Christopher Isherwood

Christopher Isherwood lived in Berlin between 1929 and 1933. In this book, which fuses fiction and fact, he paints a picture of a time which will never be forgotten. The language and the content give a real sense of place.

This classic work portrays a series of encounters in Berlin in the early 1930s between the narrator, William Bradshaw, and the camp and mildly sinister Mr Norris. It evokes the atmosphere in Berlin up to and after the accession of the Nazis to power.

Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern California. George is a gay middle-aged English professor, adjusting to solitude after the tragic death of his young partner. He is determined to persist in the routines of his former life. A Single Man follows him over the course of an ordinary twenty-four hours. Behind his British reserve, tides of grief, rage, and loneliness surge - but what is revealed is a man who loves being alive despite all the everyday injustices.