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Bio: Peter Kerr was born in Lossiemouth, County Moray, but since his early childhood has lived (on and off) in East Lothian.

Having left school, Peter joined the Civil Service as an Executive Officer - but given his flamboyant and dynamic nature, he found the role inhibiting and far too conventional!

In the early '60s Peter moved to London to pursue a career as a professional jazz musician, touring with the Clyde Valley Stompers and recording for producer George Martin (who also produced for The Beatles). Peter, on the clarinet, was the leader of the band.

The Clyde Valley Stompers produced many a successful hit, one of which was the great 'Peter and the Wolf'. The band appeared on several television programs including The Morecambe and Wise show and Thank Your Lucky Stars. Their music was also featured on Radio 2 in Brian Matthews' Saturday Club Easy Beat Music show.

Back in East Lothian in the 1970s Peter became heavily involved in record production. His 'Amazing Grace', produced for the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, sold approximately 13 million records.

In the early 80s, Peter and his wife turned to farming, and farmed barley and beef cattle. When the recession hit, they took the bit between their teeth and decided to take their farming skills to Mallorca, where they bought an old farmhouse with an orange farm, mucked in with the locals and set to work.

The couple lived in Mallorca with their two sons for three years. Snowball Oranges, written on their return, hilariously recounts the early days.

Peter Kerr and his wife have now retired from farming and live back in East Lothian.

Visit Peter's website at: http://www.peter-kerr.co.uk
Books by this author
Snowball Oranges
Thistle Soup
Manana Manana
Basketful of Snowflakes, A
Viva Mallorca


1. Thistle Soup by Peter Kerr [People/Humor]
2. Fiddler on the Make by Peter Kerr [Mainstream/Humor]
3. Viva Mallorca by Peter Kerr [Travel/Family/Relationships]
  1. The Mallorca Connection [Bob Burns Investigates Series Book 1] by Peter Kerr [Mystery/Crime/Mystery/Crime]

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1 Thistle Soup [Secure Adobe Reader 7]
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  A brimming and lively broth of rural characters, drunken ghosts, bullocks in the bedrooms and country superstitions. East Lothian is 'The Garden of Scotland' and the setting of this delightfully idiosyncratic story of country life. Often hilarious, always heartfelt and at times sad, here is unfolded the ups and downs of four generations of one farming family from the northerly Orkney Isles, who move to the little farm of Cuddy Neuk in the south of Scotland just before the outbreak of the Second ... more info>> 2004
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2 Viva Mallorca [Secure Adobe Reader 7]
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  Autumn has arrived for the Kerrs on their fruit farm on the island of Mallorca--The year's third season, "winter spring," finds Peter under the sharp eye of his long-suffering wife Ellie, struggling to shake off the relaxed Spanish tranquiloness that he has now mastered all too well. Old friendships have been established, and new ones are found as the Kerrs are introduced to Mallorca's champagne-swilling Filthy-Rich-Set and their eyes are opened by just how the other half lives--Mosquito-repelle... more info>> 2004
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3 Snowball Oranges [Secure Adobe Reader 7]
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  'Look! The weather has come from Scotland to welcome you to Mallorca,' beamed Senor Ferrer. To our new neighbour's delight and my dismay, a cold mantle of white was rapidly transforming our newly acquired paradise in the sun into a bizarre winterscape of citrus Christmas trees, cotton wool palms and Snowball Oranges. It's the stuff of dreams. A Scottish family giving up relative sanity and security to go and grow oranges for a living in a secluded valley in the mountains of the Mediterranean isl... more info>> 2004
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4 Manana Manana: One Mallorcan Summer [Secure Adobe Reader 7]
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  Having battled and succumbed to the manana pace of rural Mallorca, spring sees Peter Kerr and family relaxing into a supposedly simpler way of life, growing oranges on their little valley farm, Ca's Mayoral. However, even after the trials, tribulations and triumphs of their initiation, Spain has not yet finished with them. Embarrassing subtleties of the language, brushes with the local police, the unfortunate outcome of a drinking session ... surprises are aplenty to test the resolve, stamina an... more info>> 2004
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5 The Mallorca Connection [Bob Burns Investigates Series Book 1] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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  Bob Burns is an old-fashioned kind of Scottish sleuth, more interested in catching villains than brown-nosing to get promotion. So, when his enquiries into a brutal and bizarre murder are blocked by his bosses, should he risk losing his career by carrying on his investigations? Encouraged by an attractive-though-maverick forensic scientist and assisted by a keener-than-bright young constable, Bob does it his way. The trail leads the trio from Scotland to Mallorca, where intrigue and mayhem mingl... more info>>
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6 From Paella To Porridge: A Farewell to Mallorca and a Scottish Adventure [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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  The Kerr family say goodbye to their orange farm in Mallorca, and put it up for sale after three years of hard work. The Mallorcan experience comes to an end with a farewell fiesta for neighbours and friends, full of comic shenanigans but tinged with sadness. But now begins the return-to-Scotland adventure, and what a cultural shock is in store. Welcomed back by family, the Kerrs make plans to start a deer farm on a remote hillside, the beginning of a period of challenges and change, of buying a... more info>>
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7 A Basketful of Snowflakes: One Mallorcan Spring [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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  It's the peak of orange harvesting season at the Kerrs' little farm in the entrancing Tramuntana Mountains of Mallorca, and the family are trying to relax into their new life on the sunny Spanish island. But it's also crunch time and, after an eventful first year, hard facts have to be faced. Will all the work they've invested in restoring their finca provide them with a decent living, or will their dream turn into a nightmare? Will Peter's new-found aptitude for manananess delay their home impr... more info>>
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8 The Sporran Connection [Bob Burns Investigates Series Book 2] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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  In this, the second humour-laced Bob Burns mystery, the droll Scottish detective is once again aided by his game-for-anything forensic scientist lady friend, Julie Bryson, and abetted by keener-than-smart rookie detective, Andy Green. The investigation of a bizarre murder in a small Scottish town rapidly enmeshes the trio in a complicated web of international intrigue and Caledonian skulduggery, as the action shifts to Sicily, New York and a remote Hebridean island, where the line between the go... more info>>
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9 Fiddler on the Make [Secure Microsoft Reader]
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  When the sleepy Scottish village of Cuddyford is colonised by well-heeled retirees and big-city commuters, Jigger McCloud, a Jack-the-lad local farmer with a talent for playing the fiddle and an eye for the ladies, isn't slow to make a quick buck at their expense. Life seems rosy for Jigger and his oddball-but-loveable family, until he tries his scams on a mysterious foreign millionaire, who arrives on the scene with plans to develop the area in ways that appeal neither to Jigger nor his milch c... more info>>
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