Christopher Isherwood explores the character of a middle-aged Englishman living in California: a professor alienated from his students by differences in age and nationality and from the rest of society by his homosexuality.

These diary entries are filled with philosophy, gossip, mystical insights, and the period following his emigration to California in 1939. He is one of the great gay icons, and his relationships are discussed frankly in these diaries.

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 November 1929, the author - determined to become a permanent foreigner - packed a rucksack and two suitcases and left England on a one-way ticket for Berlin. In this title, he recalls decadence of Berlin's night scene and his route to sexual liberation. It describes his struggle to save his partner Heinz from persecution the Third Reich.

Interweaving semi-autobiography with fiction, and taking the reader through relationships with 4 very different men, from 1930s Germany and prewar Greece to decadent Hollywood, Isherwood provides a black and witty portrait of the writer abroad.

Two English brothers meet, after a long separation, in India. Oliver prepares to take his final vows as a Hindu monk. Patrick has publicly admired his brother's convictions while privately criticizing his choices.

The First World War is over. Eric Vernon is on the cusp of adulthood. Tall, bony and awkward he finds himself torn between a desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice, and resentment toward his father's roguish friend Edward Blake, who survived the war only to throw himself into gay life in Berlin.

An impatient phone call from the temperamental Austrian director, Friedrich Bergmann, introduces a young Christopher Isherwood to the film industry. Isherwood's job is to rescue the script of a sentimental love story set in nineteenth-century Vienna, a film called "Prater Violet".

Against the backdrop of World War II, this work charts the emotional development of Stephen Monk, an aimless Englishman living in California. The world traveller comes to a gradual understanding of himself and of his newly adopted homeland.

In September 1947, long before mass tourism and with no knowledge of Spanish, the author and William Caskey left for a six-month tour of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. This title offers an account of that journey, during which he bumped into a handful of old acquaintances on a brand-new continent.