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Without wishing to reveal too much about the plot, there is more to this connection than meets the eye, and the somewhat naïve William Bradshaw is all set to get caught up in it! Mr Norris was awarded a Bronze National Clinical Excellence Award in January 2022 for services to the NHS. By rights, I ought to have read it before the film adaptation came out as it’s going to be hard to wipe those images of Colin Firth and Julianne Moore from my mind.Of course, it wasn’t entirely unexpected that a novel written during and partially about the Nazis’ rise to power should have its share of anti-Semitic sentiment. This is one of Isherwood’s pre-war Berlin novels (this one published in 1935) which capture his experiences of the city at the time leading up to WW2. Turquoise cloth lightly sunned on the spine and rubbed at the extremities, with two small light spots on the front cover; edges lightly marked and discoloured; endpapers lightly foxed; half-title and last page of text offset; small light marks to the margins of about ten leaves; notwithstanding, an excellent copy with the very good unclipped dustwrapper (designed by Jack Banting) a little sunned, marked, rubbed and lightly chipped.

The novel was still titled The Lost when Isherwood mailed the manuscript to Hogarth Press for publication, but the title was eventually changed to Mr Norris Changes Trains. There are strong homosexual overtones and an overpowering combination of the games and deceits of both the spy and gay worlds of the era; the 'honey trap' being a prime example. With the Nazis on the rise, Norris plans one last coup, with the help of Bradshaw, to put his finances on sound footing. I must have been already drunk when I arrived at the Troika, because I remember getting a shock when I looked into the cloakroom mirror and found that I was wearing a false nose.

First published in 1935 and often paired for publication with another of Isherwood's short novels as Berlin Stories, Mr. First published in 1933 Mr Norris Changes Trains piquantly evokes the atmosphere of Berlin during the rise of the Nazis. I had such a good time with this novel, and I really hope you enjoy it too – it strikes me as being right up your street. In part this was to help the average reader identify with the narrator by minimising the differences between the narrator and the reader. Here is a man, oily, dishonest, deceitful, of not particularly pleasant appearance, always out to make some money, even if at the expense of others, including his friends, yet we cannot help but have a soft spot for him.