Bernard Turle Book order (chronological)

The Sunday Times Novel of the Year 'With The Stranger's Child, an already remarkable talent unfurls into something spectacular' Sunday Times In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. Filled with intimacies and confusions, the weekend will link the families for ever, having the most lasting impact on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne. As the decades pass, Daphne and those around her endure startling changes in fortune and circumstance, reputations rise and fall, secrets are revealed and hidden and the events of that long-ago summer become part of a legendary story, told and interpreted in different ways by successive generations. Powerful, absorbing and richly comic, The Stranger's Child is a masterly exploration of English culture, taste and attitudes over a century of change. 'I would compare the novel to Middlemarch . . . a remarkable, unmissable achievement' Independent 'Magnificent . . . universally acclaimed as the best novel of the year' Philip Hensher

It is the seventies, at the height of flower power. Star has just joined Drop City, a hippie commune in sunny California living the simple, natural life. But underneath the drugs, music and transcendent bliss, she slowly discovers tensions and sexual rivalries that threaten to split the community apart. A world away in Boynton, a tiny town in the interior of Alaska, Sess Harder, a pioneer who actually does live off the land, hunting, trapping and fishing, yearns for someone to share the harsh winters with him. When the authorities threaten to close down Drop City, the hippies abandon camp and head up north to Alaska, the last frontier. But neither they nor the inhabitants of Boynton are completely prepared for each other - and as the two communities collide, unexpected friendships and dangerous enmities are born.

Tout va bien ce jour-là à Amsterdam : il fait beau et, lorsqu'il sort entre deux répétitions acheter des cigarettes, le narrateur, danseur comblé, n'imagine pas un instant qu'au détour d'une ruelle déserte sa vie va basculer. Enlevé par trois femmes portant cagoule, il se réveille enchaîné dans une chambre close où ses geôlières lui font subir d'invraisemblables sévices avant de le libérer dix-huit jours plus tard sans la moindre explication. Obsédé, malgré ses efforts de fuite, par le désir de retrouver ses ravisseuses et d'éclaircir le mystère de ce viol surréaliste, le danseur entame une traque surprenante. De victime, il devient à son tour chasseur, bourreau, fétichiste...