We are delighted to announce that lecturer Michael King will be exploring Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin, a world of decadence in Weimar Berlin where hedonism starts to crumble against vibrations of the Nazi rise to power.

Tea and coffee with be provide throughout the event.

To book your place, please click here.

About the book:

1930s Berlin is a realm of glamour and sleaze, excess and repression. Having moved to the city to work on his novel, Christopher finds himself immersed in a world of contradiction. He becomes enamoured with the local denizens and the colourful lives they lead, meeting an English upper-class waif, the delightfully decadent Sally Bowles; a couple – Peter and Otto – who are struggling with their sexual identities; and a distinguished and doomed Jewish family, the Landauers.

With the Nazis rising to power, Christopher’s Berlin is a sparkling city perched on the edge of an abyss