Peter Kerr - The official site of the bestselling Scottish Author

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to the colourful and amusing world of Scotland's award-winning
travel writer - author of the bestselling SNOWBALL ORANGES series
of Mallorcan travelogues and a variety of fiction titles. His books, written with warmth, gutsy style and spiky humour, are sold worldwide and have been translated into several languages.
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NEWS

AUTHOR – DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH! – The Life and Times of a Spontaneous Scribbler – Published December 2024.
A humour-spiced though frank and revealing memoir of the joys and headaches of becoming – after many years of trying – a published author at sixty. More...

OTHER RECENT RELEASES

JEN – A Border Collie’s Tale. Published July 2021.
Set in the Scottish countryside and dictated by Jen herself, this heart-warming spin-off from Thistle Soup is the life story of a ‘working’ collie dog with an avowed aversion to work. Often hilarious, occasionally sad, always doggedly down-to-earth. More...

'FOUR SEASONS IN MALLORCA' New CHINESE editions of SNOWBALL ORANGES series published November 2022. More...

GOBLIN HALL – A humour-laced fantasy adventure. Published April 2020, is the story of two young children, lured into the underworld by an evil sorcerer who is using them as bait to ensnare his arch rival, a dippy old wizard called Mungo. Goblins, magic and scary creatures abound as the forces of good and evil lock horns. More...

THE OTHER MONARCH OF THE GLEN – A Comedy-spiced Highland Caper. Out for Christmas 2017. Convoluted conspiracies and amorous anomalies abound as the feckless laird of Strathsporran Castle becomes embroiled in an audacious money-making scam with two unlikely accomplices. But who's conning who? More...

DON’T CALL ME CLYDE!
Jazz Journey of a Sixties Stomper is Peter’s long-awaited memoir of life as a young musician with the Clyde Valley Stompers in Swinging-Sixties London. Revealing, intriguing, always entertaining. Also AUDIO BOOK June 2017. More...

SONG OF THE EIGHT WINDS
Peter's first historical novel, published September 2014, is an epic tale of 13th century Mallorca, a compelling story set during the most pivotal event in the history of this enchanting Spanish island - the Christian Reconquest from the Moors. NEW EDITION and full details Click here...

THE SNOWBALL ORANGES SERIES

Snowball Oranges NEW EDITION Out 12 February 2023
This award-winning book, first published in 2000, launched the best-selling series charting the Kerr family's often-hilarious adventures after leaving Scotland to grow oranges for a living on the Spanish island of Mallorca. More...

'ONE MALLORCAN SUMMER' - NEW EDITION out May 2022.
Previously published as Mañana, Mañana, the second book in this pentad of fun-filled Mallorcan travelogues finds Peter and his family trying to relax into a ‘supposedly’ simpler way of life, growing oranges on their little valley farm in the entrancing Tramuntana Mountains. More...

Viva Mallorca!
In this, the third book in the series, the season of ‘winter spring’ has arrived, and Peter, under the sharp eye of his long-suffering wife, struggles to shake off the relaxed Spanish tranquiloness he has now mastered all too well. More...

A Basketful of Snowflakes
Book four. It’s the peak of the orange harvesting season, and the Kerr family continue to settle into their new ‘laid-back’ lifestyle on the sunny Spanish island. But it’s also crunch time, and some hard facts have to be faced. More...

From Paella to Porridge
The fifth and final book in the series. After three years of hard work, the Kerrs say a reluctant goodbye to their little orange farm with a surprise paella feast. Now begins their return-to-Scotland adventure. There’s never a dull moment, even when there’s porridge for breakfast! More...

Thistle Soup
This is the prequel to Snowball Oranges. East Lothian is ‘The Garden of Scotland’, and the setting for this delightfully idiosyncratic story of country life. Often hilarious, always heartfelt and occasionally sad, here is unfolded the ups and downs of four generations of one farming family. More...

THE BOB BURNS INVESTIGATES MYSTERIES

The Mallorca Connection – Bob Burns Investigates
A rare combination of suspense and comedy – the first in a trilogy of offbeat whodunnits featuring maverick Scots detective, Bob Burns, and his unlikely pair of cohorts, the sexy, game-for-anything forensic scientist, Dr Julie Bryson, and keener-than-smart rookie detective, Andy Green. More...

The Sporran Connection – Bob Burns Investigates
Murder, mayhem, felony and farce are the bywords as Bob Burns and his two sidekicks become enmeshed in a complicated web of international intrigue and Caledonian skulduggery. The whiff of death is masked by an aroma of expensive perfume, and even Bob’s proficient police nostrils are confused. More...

The Cruise Connection – Bob Burns Investigates
The third humour-spiked Bob Burns mystery finds the droll Scots detective and his two intrepid associates drawn into a tangle of chicanery aboard a luxury liner when a severed finger is found in a passenger’s quiche lorraine. High seas hijinks and shipboard shenanigans on a curious cruise to the Canaries. More...

OTHER FICTION BOOKS

Fiddler On The Make
When the sleepy Scottish village of Cuddyford is colonised by well-heeled retirees and big-city commuters, Jigger McCloud, a waggish local farmer with a talent for playing the fiddle, an eye for the ladies and the main chance, isn’t slow to make a quick buck at their expense. More...

The Gannet Has Landed
In this humour-tinged romantic adventure, Doogie O’Mara, a young Scottish veterinary student, applies for a gap-year job as a tour rep in Africa, where he also hopes to find time to study the wildlife. Instead, he finds himself on Mallorca, thrust in at the deep end of the madcap package tour business – a hapless fish out of water, for whom the nearest thing to wildlife appears to be the hordes of rowdy holidaymakers pouring off the gannets (charter planes) from the UK. More...

ANTHOLOGY

Spain In Mind
Published April, 2007, by Random House – Vintage.
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7676-5 or 1-4000-7676-5

An excerpt from Snowball Oranges is included in this collection, which also features examples of the work of such literary luminaries as Hemingway, Byron, Orwell, Dos Passos, Auden
and Trollope. ‘Three generations of great writers entranced
by Spain’.