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Peter Kerr

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Born

Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland, The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.peter-kerr.co.uk

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Travel, Humor and Comedy, Historical Fiction

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Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Burns, Laurie Lee, James Thurber, Tom S ...more

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February 2017

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Peter Kerr, the award-winning Scottish author of the 'Snowball Oranges' pentad of humorous Mallorcan travelogues, is a former jazz musician, record producer and farmer. He has also written a range of fiction titles, including the 'Bob Burns Investigates' trilogy of humour-spiked mysteries and 'Song of the Eight Winds', a historical novel set in 13th century Spain. 'Thistle Soup' is a set-in-Scotland prequel to 'Snowball Oranges', while 'Don't Call Me Clyde!' is a memoir of his life as a young jazz musician in early-60s London. A comedy-laced caper called 'The Other Monarch of the Glen' is set in the Scottish Highlands and was published in December 2017, while 'Goblin Hall', a humour-peppered fantasy adventure for a family readership, was pu ...more

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Average rating: 3.68 · 1,594 ratings · 133 reviews · 22 distinct works • Similar authors

	Snowball Oranges: One Mallorcan Winter 3.60 avg rating — 658 ratings — published 2000 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Mallorcan Summer: Mañana Mañana 3.67 avg rating — 255 ratings — published 2001 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Viva Mallorca!: One Mallorcan Autumn (Snowball Oranges) 3.85 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 2004 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Basketful of Snowflakes: One Mallorcan Spring (Snowball Oranges) 3.95 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2005 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Paella to Porridge: A Farewell to Mallorca and a Scottish Adventure (Snowball Oranges) 3.76 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2006 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thistle Soup 3.86 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2002 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mallorca Connection: Bob Burns Investigates 3.66 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2006 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sporran Connection: Bob Burns Investigates 3.60 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2007 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cruise Connection: Bob Burns Investigates 3.18 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gannet has Landed 3.52 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2008 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The sky was blue. So was Ellie, and I knew how she felt. Mario Lanzarote had just died.”
― Peter Kerr, Viva Mallorca!: One Mallorcan Autumn

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“On the wooded hillsides below, an owl hooted, heralding the first liquid trills of a nightingale, while in the air above, tiny bats dashed to and fro like fleeting splashes of shadow. Then, somewhere on a distant mountain farm, a dog barked a warning to imagined marauders skulking by his master's gate. Mallorca was preparing to sleep.”
― Peter Kerr, Song of the Eight Winds: Reconquista

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“The last rays of the setting sun were filtering through the orchard, weaving strange, shadowy patterns on the dusty ochre earth ... Here was one small reminder, if one were needed, that we were a long way from those frosty Scottish autumns that I knew so well. This was, indeed, the island of winter spring.”
― Peter Kerr, Viva Mallorca!: One Mallorcan Autumn

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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

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“But pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed;
Or, like the snow-fall in the river,
A moment white, then melts forever.”
― Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter

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“A line will take us hours may be;
Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought,
Our stitching and unstitching has been nought.”
― W.B. Yeats 1865 - 1939

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“I say, patience and shuffle the cards!”
― Miguel de Cervantes 1547 - 1616

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“When the music changes, so does the dance.”
― (Anon)

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