Mr Norris Changes Trains

A supreme example of a radiant prose rhythm married to the most delicious dialogue – a portrait of the subtly ruinous Mr Norris. -- Sebastian Barry * Week *
Isherwood sketches with the lightest of touches the last gasp of the decaying demi-monde and the vigorous world of Communists and Nazis, grappling with each other on the edge of the abyss * Sunday Telegraph *
What the Berlin stories retain, to a unique degree, is the ability to tell us what it really felt like then - to feel involved with the Germans and still to find that they retained their mystery; to be in the mode, yes, of a camera, and yet to be furiously, hopelessly involved -- James Fenton
The first literary novel that really switched me on was Christopher Isherwood's Mr Norris Changes Trains -- Chris Pattern * Daily Mail *
He immortalised Berlin in two short, brilliant novels both published in the Thirties, Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye To Berlin, inventing a new form for future generations - intimate, stylised reportage in loosely connected episodes * Daily Express *
Mr Norris Changes Trains brought him recognition as one of the most promising young writers of his generation * The Times *