 During the 1950s, as a now permanent freelance writer, Turner contributed regularly to "Punch Magazine", the leading satirical magazine with the accent on humour and pastiche.This source of income enabled him to concentrate more on writing books.Turner's literary flexibility was illustrated when he wrote a Betjeman-style pastiche for the Royal wedding of The Princess Anne and Mark Phillips on 14 November 1973, subsequently quoted in an obituary by Miles Kington in 2006.