Connor Post is now carrying Chapter 2 of Sea Changes here: http://connorpost.com/exclusive/derek-turner-sea-changes-2.html
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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
Latest article for Chronicles – “Pity Poor Bradford
The June issue of Chronicles contains my article “Pity Poor Bradford” – a travelogue about the West Riding and ideas of the English North, touching on everything from the Normans to Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill and Peter Davidson via Civil War apparitions and the Industrial and Immigration Revolutions. Not available on line, sadly – but then… Continue reading
The Tories and Trump – my first column for The Connor Post
This is my first column for The Connor Post, an impressive news and opinion aggregation site – this one on Tory attitudes to Trump – http://connorpost.com/exclusive/derek-turner-tories-taking-on-and-to-trump.html
John Aubrey – remembrancer and forward-thinker
JOHN AUBREY – REMEMBRANCER AND FORWARD-THINKER John Aubrey, My Own Life Ruth Scurr, London: Chatto & Windus, 2015, hb., 518pp, £25 Just as English painting is renowned for portraiture, so English letters have been illuminated by some of the greatest biographers ever to burnish world literature. After Boswell, the best-known is John Aubrey (1626-1697), whose… Continue reading