Connor Post‘s part-serialization of Sea Changes continues with Chapter 3, here: http://connorpost.com/exclusive/derek-turner-sea-changes-3.html
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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
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
Testing for humanity – The Plague Dogs
TESTING FOR HUMANITY The Plague Dogs (book 1977, film 1982) I came across by chance recently a DVD of The Plague Dogs, a 1982 animation of Richard Adams’ bestselling 1977 novel. I was catapulted immediately back to childhood, when I had read the book shortly after publication, with a sense of distress and anger I… Continue reading