Sally Bowles

Description

Author: Christopher Isherwood

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 2 July 2026 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Brief Encounters’ series.

Paperback | 96 pages
197 x 131 x 11 | 84g

Sally Bowles is the dazzling centrepiece of Goodbye to Berlin, distilling Isherwood’s genius into the tale of one baudy, brilliant woman.

1930s Berlin is a realm of glamour and sleaze, repression and excess, threatened by a rising tide of tyranny. There, a lonely young Brit working on a novel is charmed by an English runaway and aspiring star, the delightfully decadent Sally Bowles. The intimate, fleeting connection they share will stay with him long after.

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days.