In line with Isherwood's other works, descriptions are light and airy rather than overdone to the point that they become meaningless, and they allow the story to continue easily. The long-awaited second instalment in Samantha Shannon's Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling series Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. I can smell it whenever I think about it, so it made me laugh to read that it was a special Sunday meal for prisoners in 1930s Berlin.

One of the characters, a German aristocrat, Baron Pregnitz, is quite clearly gay, but Isherwood is much more vague about Bradshaw’s sexuality. So many wonderful books to discover, all vying for our time and attention – if only we had enough time in which to read them. Overall the experience seemed to me like life scene viewed though the eyes of a third person observer, who was there on the spot but detached from it all. 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. The book made him a hero of gay liberation and a national celebrity all over again but now in his true, political and personal identity.The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fifth volume of the Heartstopper series. The novel's last words are drawn from a postcard that Mr Norris sends to William from Rio de Janeiro: " What have I done to deserve all this? As he gets to know Bradshaw, Norris reveals a little of his childhood and the years he spent travelling around Europe with his adoring mother prior to her death.

Mr Norris's specialist interest involves oculoplastic (eyelid), lacrimal (watery eye / tear duct) and orbital (eye socket) surgery. He had just finished his eighth, he told us: it dealt with the amours peculiar to a winter sport hotel. Isherwood evokes the Berlin of the early 1930s as the Nazis are on the rise but are opposed by others, particularly the Communists.After his brusque self-introduction, he proved most affable and treated us, without further request, to a discourse on his career, aims, and methods of work. First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and 7 fine coloured plates (one double-page); patterned brown and yellow cloth, gilt back, brown top, brown endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. It is indeed tragic to see how, even in these days, a clever and unscrupulous liar can deceive millions.