After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship with the mildly sinister Arthur Norris. Norris is a man of contradictions; lavish but…

The interviews in this volume stretch over a period of forty years. They address a wide range of topics, including the importance of diary-keeping to Isherwood’s life and work; the…

Jaime Harker shows that Christopher Isherwood refashioned himself as an American writer following his emigration from England by immersing himself in the gay reading, writing, and publishing communities in Cold…

Christopher Isherwood settled in California in 1939 and spent the war years writing for Hollywood, but by 1945 he had all but ceased to write fiction and abandoned his habit…

Four portraits, four settings, four narrators, all known as ‘Christopher Isherwood’. Often regarded as the best of his novels, Down There on a Visit tells the vivid stories of Isherwood’s…

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOW In 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the…

Originally published in 1945, Prater Violet is a stingingly satirical novel about the film industry.

In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood - determined to become a ‘permanent foreigner’ - packed a rucksack and two suitcases and left England on a one-way ticket for Berlin. With incredible…