Michael York

Prophesies on the future of mankind, which may perhaps come to pass. The world of Bernard Marx and Lenina Crowne is one where human beings are brewed from test tubes and then conditioned to accept the duties of their predestined castes in society.

In 1944 a talking parrot belonging to a young Jewish refugee is stolen. The boy is bereft and a retired detective starts to search for the bird, but why has it been stolen, and what do the german numbers it keeps repeating mean? After numerous clues and dead ends an elegant solution is finally found.

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.