Derek Turner (journalist)

Derek Turner (born 1964) is a journalist and author of several novels.

Early life
Turner is the son of a ship’s captain of Methodist background and a Church of Ireland mother (the great niece of the Archbishop of Dublin). Before he became a journalist, he worked as a sailor, security guard, builder, advertising salesman for The Daily Telegraph, and production editor for a technical publishing firm.

Journalism
Turner's work has appeared in a large number of magazines and newspapers, including The Times, The Sunday Telegraph, Literary Review, The Salisbury Review, Taki's Magazine, The Economist, European Journal, The Lady, and Kent Life. His articles appeared in the American magazines Chronicles and the Connor Post, the German publications Junge Freiheit and Criticón, and other journals in France, Italy, the Czech Republic and elsewhere.

He was editor of the right-wing magazine Right Now!, published by Taki Theodoracopulos.

He edited the Quarterly Review from 2007 to 2011.

His areas of focus are English letters, British topography, European culture and history, folklore, and current affairs.

Novels
Turner is the author of three novels: Sea Changes, A Modern Journey, and Displacement.

Published works

 * Sea Changes (WSP, 2012) ISBN 9781593680022
 * Displacement (Endeavour Press, 2015) ISBN 9781530119219
 * A Modern Journey (Endeavour Press, 2016) ISBN 9781523676217