Connor Post continues with its extracts from Sea Changes – http://connorpost.com/exclusive/derek-turner-sea-changes-4.html
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My Spiked review of Dublin Seven, Frankie Gaffney’s novel of inner-city drug-dealing
My Spiked review of Frankie Gaffney’s gritty novel Dublin Seven is now online here: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/dublin-seven-nasty-brutish-and-brilliant/19053#.WEHyhXecZok
Sea Changes part-serialized – Part 3
Connor Post‘s part-serialization of Sea Changes continues with Chapter 3, here: http://connorpost.com/exclusive/derek-turner-sea-changes-3.html
Sea Changes part-serialized – Part 2
Connor Post is now carrying Chapter 2 of Sea Changes here: http://connorpost.com/exclusive/derek-turner-sea-changes-2.html
Sea Changes part-serialized – Part 1
Connor Post is serializing extracts from Sea Changes. Part 1 (and a brief introduction) may be found here: http://connorpost.com/exclusive/derek-turner-sea-changes-1.html
Wayne Allensworth reviews A Modern Journey for Chronicles
Regular Chronicles writer (and soon-to be novelist) Wayne Allensworth reviews A Modern Journey in that journal’s September issue – In his latest book, Derek Turner, author of Sea Changes and Displacement, takes his readers on a seriocomic journey with a latter-day Holy Fool. Along the way, Turner takes aim at the insanity of political correctness,… Continue reading
Me on Dr. Johnson in the Hebrides
Latest article for Chronicles – “An Englishman in his Near Abroad” The August issue of Chronicles has my article on Samuel Johnson’s celebrated trip to the Hebrides – seven pages of Pictish/Celtic legend, Culdees, Vikings, golden eagles, sea-storms, and of course the great man at his most relaxed and clubbable. Not available on line, so you will need… Continue reading
A Modern Journey reviewed by the Connor Post
James Connor has penned a generous and thoughtful review of my Irish novel A Modern Journey. An extract: “Turner is an outstanding wordsmith. The quality of his writing is a pleasure. Maybe he could have dialed back some of the more preposterous pronouncements of Ambrose, but only because they slacken the pace. Then again, I have a… Continue reading
New column for The Connor Post – “Brexit – and Brexistence”
My latest article for The Connor Post is now online – http://connorpost.com/exclusive/derek-turner-brexit-and-brexistence.html
New review of Displacement, by poet Liam Guitar
The June issue of Chronicles contains a top-notch review of Displacement, by the poet Liam Guitar (whose Anhaga is just out, and highly recommended). Liam says, “Turner’s descriptions of London are one of the highlights…The city becomes a character: old, vibrant, curled along its river, evoked in swift effective sentences creating precise and memorable images. The prose… Continue reading