Peter Kerr

Peter Kerr is an author of travel books and fiction. He re-located from Scotland to Mallorca in the 1980s and began his writing career while working as a farmer.

Writing Kerr's books Snowball Oranges, Mañana Mañana, Viva Mallorca! and A Basketful of Snowflakes, his Mallorcan-based travel books, have been translated into fourteen languages.

Thistle Soup, a prequel to Snowball Oranges, was published in 2002 and is an account of his life from boyhood in East Lothian. A new edition was released in 2017. In May 2020 he released Goblin Hall his first fantasy title.

In 2021, he published Jen, the story of a Border Collie.

Awards In 2002, Snowball Oranges won the bronze prize in American Book of the Year, while Manana Manana was shortlisted for the WH Smith British Book of the Year.

Music Prior to taking over the family farm Peter was a musician. His musical career is rooted in jazz and he was the clarinettist-leader of Scotland's premiere jazz band The Clyde Valley Stompers in the 1960s. Recording for Beatles producer George Martin, The Stompers stormed the charts in 1962 with Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.