Down There On a VisitBerlin, the Greek Islands, London and California. 1928, 1932, 1938 and 1940. 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 life that, together with The Berlin Novels, were to have comprised his great unfinished epic novel.

the killings finally ceased

'Deliciously creepy

rather as Bohr and Heisenberg do in the play

is threatened by the flesh and blood reality of Anna

a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York

wanted to leave East Berlin to go to the West and "go straight"

thrilling addition for fans of the series and a captivating introduction for new readers of Lawton's work

Her mentor Mercurio is now in the clutches of her enemies

The novel features various generations over the course of 150 years in interconnecting stories

but within itself

As an agent in the Underground

yet they were there