Shooting the Actor, a highly acclaimed biography of Charles Laughton, a biographical trilogy on Orson Welles (of which the first two parts have now been published), and Love Is Where It Falls, an account of his friendship with the great play agent Peggy Ramsay. His recent books include My Life in Pieces, which won the Sheridan Morley Prize in 2011, and Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World.One of his six best books, as told to the Daily Express:
MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINSRead about another entry on Callow's list.
by Christopher Isherwood
Isherwood went to Berlin in 1929 and lived through the rise of the Nazis. He wrote two novels which depict the agonising death throes of the Weimar Republic.
This one introduces us to one of the great comic characters of 20th century, the shady Norris, against a background of rising political horror.
--Marshal Zeringue
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