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The Cupboard under the Stairs

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 16:51:24 +0300

After spending six years in a progressive psychiatric institution being treated for depression, Harry White returns home to the small town of Treelake. He tries to readjust. But it's the 1960s and it isn't easy. Being a man of his time doesn't make it easier either. Nor does the stigma of his institutionalisation. Or the problem of being married to one woman, but loving another...

The Cupboard Under the Stairs was published in 1962, the same year as the American author Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Critically acclaimed, it won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, sharing it with Thea Astley's The Well-Dressed Explorer, which is also part of the Untapped Collection.

In addition to being a Miles Franklin-award-winning literary author, George Turner (1916–1997), was internationally known for his science fiction writing and criticism. His novel The Sea and the Summer (1987) won both the Arthur C Clarke Award and a...

Beloved Son

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 02:26:17 +0300

The Sea and Summer

Mon, 16 Nov 1987 16:40:38 +0300

Francis Conway is Swill - one of the millions in the year 2041 who must subsist on the inadequate charities of the state. Life, already difficult, is rapidly becoming impossible for Francis and others like him, as government corruption, official blindness and nature have conspired to turn Swill homes into watery tombs. And now the young boy must find a way to escape the approaching tide of disaster.

The Sea and Summer, published in the US as The Drowning Towers, is George Turner's masterful exploration of the effects of climate change in the not-too-distant future.

Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best novel, 1988Nebula Awards Best Novel (nominee)John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel (nominee)Praise"The best didactic novel since The Dispossessed." ~Joe Haldeman"His most powerful novel... George Turner belongs to the world." ~Gene Wolfe

About the Author

George Turner (1916-1997) was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. His mainstream novel The Cupboard Under the Stairs won the Miles Franklin Award.