The Berlin Novels

Enter the dark, dazzling world of Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin. Mr Norris Changes Trains, the first of Isherwood's classic Berlin novels, begins with a chance encounter. On a train to Berlin in late 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with Arthur Norris. So begins a close friendship – yet there is something sinister about Bradshaw’s new companion. Goodbye to Berlin inspired the musical Cabaret and the play I Am a Camera. Having recently moved to the city, Christopher becomes enamoured with its local denizens and the colourful lives they lead. Yet as Hitler’s shadow grows taller, each of his new acquaintances comes under threat, passing their days in a city, and a world, on the brink of ruin. ‘Brilliant sketches of a society in decay’ George Orwell ‘The Berlin Novels are masterpieces, funny, darkly innocent explorations of a Berlin in the thirties that is now as firmly in the past as Pompeii’ Observer ‘More than any other foreign writer, Isherwood’s fictional autobiography – or autobiographical fiction – has shaped Berlin’ Guardian Cover may vary.