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A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
$14.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction
Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, A Single Man is the story of George Falconer, an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover Jim. With devastating clarity and humour, Christopher Isherwood shows George's determination to carry on, evokin ...Show more
All the Conspirators by Christopher Isherwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction
The scene is 1920s Kensington and Philip and Joan are testing the very limits of politeness and restraint as they fight to expunge the oppression of their mother - by whatever means necessary. In his first novel, Christopher Isherwood paints an intimate portrait of the battle between old and young as he ...Show more
Christopher Isherwood Diaries: v. 1 by Christopher Isherwood
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In 1939, Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden emigrated together to the United States. In spare, luminous prose these diaries describe Isherwood's search for a new life in California; his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, his pacifism during World War II and his friendships with such gifted artists a ...Show more
Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction
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 candour and wit, Isherwood recalls the decadence of Berlin's night scene and his route to sexual liberation. As th ...Show more
Down There on a Visit by Christopher Isherwood
$35.00 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction
This title deals with a new introduction by Philip Hensher. "Radiant with observation, never wasting a word, funny and sympathetic". (Stephen Spender). Berlin, the Greek Islands, London and California. 1928, 1932, 1988 and 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators, all known as "Christopher Is ...Show more
Kathleen and Frank by Christopher Isherwood
$12.95 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
This is the story of Christopher Isherwood's parents - their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father's death in an assault on Ypres in 1915, which left his mother a widow until her own death in 1960. As well as a family memoir, it is a social his ...Show more
Liberation: Diaries Vol 3 by Christopher Isherwood
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'A slip of a wild boy: with quick silver eyes,' as Virginia Woolf saw him in the 1930s, Christopher Isherwood journeyed and changed with his century, until, by the 1980s, he was celebrated as the finest prose writer in English and the Grand Old Man of Gay Liberation. In this final volume of his diaries, ...Show more
Liberation: Diaries Vol 3: Vol. 3 by Christopher Isherwood
$79.95 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'A slip of a wild boy: with quicksilver eyes' is how "Virginia Woolf" characterised the young Christopher Isherwood. This final volume of his diaries, capstone of a million-word masterwork, records the golden decades of the life-long adventurer, the boy who never wanted to grow up. He greets advancing a ...Show more
Lions and Shadows by Christopher Isherwood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
This title features with an introduction James Fenton. Subtitled "An education in the twenties", this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in London's Bohemia. It contains thinly veiled port ...Show more
Meeting by the River by Christopher Isherwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction
Breaking a long silence Oliver, a young Englishman, writes to his elder brother, Patrick. Oliver, the idealistic younger brother is living in a Hindu Monastery and has decided to take his final monastic vows. Patrick, a successful publisher and a married man with a skeleton in his cupboard, decides to v ...Show more
My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood
$35.00 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
This title features with an 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 failed Leftism of the thirties. There he meets Swami Prabhavananda, a Hindu monk, who will become his s ...Show more