Editorial Turner is the closest thing to a gourmet section or delicatessen in a fine foods supermarket, offering delectable books that have their origin in transgression.

Turner Publishing is the closest thing to a gourmet section or delicatessen in a fine foods supermarket. One knows when one approaches their covers, the aroma of quality books that have their origin in a transgression. And it’s because Turner was founded in 197O, that is, just before the latest stage of Francoism, which still afflicted a severely wounded cultural environment. Turner began as a bookstore, the very one that is now the Librería Pasajes, located at 3 Génova street in Madrid. A few years later it mutated into a publishing house, specializing in offerings that simultaneously confer both prestige and morbid fascination in the cultural sphere, in other words, in prohibited books.  The clandestine nature of publications, provoked by an authoritarian regime on its last legs, gave rise to a catalog chock-a-block with historic literary gems. 

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