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Philip William Turner is an English author best known for his children's books set in the fictional town of Darnley Mills (1964–1977). Under the pen name Stephen Chance he is known for the Reverend Septimus Treloar mystery fiction series (1971–1979).

For his second novel and second Darnley Mills book, The Grange at High Force, he won the 1965 Carnegie Medal in Literature from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.

Born in British Columbia, Canada on 3 December 1925 to English parents from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, Philip Turner was brought to England in 1926. He was educated at Hinckley Grammar School in Leicestershire and spent many school holidays exploring the East Anglian fens whilst ...more

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	The Grange at High Force by Philip Turner, William Papas (Illustrator) 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1965 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Colonel Sheperton's Clock 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1964 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sea Peril by Philip Turner, Ian Ribbons (Illustrator) 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1966 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Christian Socialism: The Promise of an Almost Forgotten Tradition by Philip Turner, Stanley Hauerwas (Foreword) 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Christian Ethics and the Church: Ecclesial Foundations for Moral Thought and Practice 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bible Story by Philip Turner, Brian Wildsmith (Illustrator) 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1969 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	War on the Darnel 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1969 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dunkirk Summer 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1973	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Steam on the Line by Philip Turner, Gareth Floyd (Illustrator) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1968 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Devil's Nob 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1970 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“In the untidy privacy of the Staff Room he had described Arthur as: 'Surprisingly cunning. Jolly adaptable for such a lump of a boy.' That Mr. Gillespie-Reeve found this surprising only showed his lack of knowledge of moorland sheep farmers, and the cunning and adaptability necessary on a bleak fellside on a dark winter night. But then he had only seen Arthur, large and solid and safe-handed, behind the wicket, or making a cheerful fool of himself over some abstruse problem in mathematics. He had never seen the same Arthur kneeling on an eighteen-inch ledge in a howling sleet-storm, using his inbred cunning and adaptability to coax an expensive and wayward ram back to safety, rather than have it fall to blackness over the edge, his only help his own wits and the unquestioning obedience of a sheep-dog.”
― Philip Turner, Sea Peril

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“David went on through the dark churchyard, over the wooden bridge where the beck chuckled unseen beneath him and an owl hooted loud above him somewhere in the starry darkness beyond the black yew-trees. The moon had not yet risen above the horizon of the high moors. But already, like a herald of its coming, the stark shapes of the Black Rocks were sharply outlined: black cut-outs against a sky clear as a blue diamond.”
― Philip Turner, Sea Peril

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