Philip Kerr

Philip Ballantyne Kerr (22 February 1956 – 23 March 2018) was a Scottish author, best known for his Bernie Gunther series of historical detective thrillers.

Early life Kerr was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, where his father was an engineer and his mother worked as a secretary. He was educated at a grammar school in Northampton. He studied at the University of Birmingham from 1974 to 1980, gaining a master's degree in law and philosophy. before becoming a full-time writer in 1989. In a 2012 interview, Kerr noted that he began his literary career at the age of twelve by writing pornographic stories and lending them to classmates for a fee. and had three children. While fighting cancer, he completed the fourteenth Bernie Gunther novel, Metropolis, which was published after his death, in 2019.

Awards and honours In 1993, Kerr was named in Granta's list of Best Young British Novelists. The book also won the British Crime Writers' Association's Ellis Peters Historic Crime Award that same year. His novel, Prussian Blue, was longlisted for the 2018 Walter Scott Prize.

Death Kerr died at age 62 from bladder cancer on 23 March 2018.

Publications Novels Bernie Gunther series "Berlin Noir" trilogy, republished 1993 by Penguin Books in one volume. . March Violets. London: Viking, 1989. , set in 1936 The Pale Criminal. London: Viking, 1990. , set in 1938 A German Requiem. London: Viking, 1991. , set in 1947–48 Later "Bernie Gunther" novels The One from the Other. New York: Putnam, 2006. , set in 1949 (intro set in 1937) A Quiet Flame. London: Quercus, 2008. , set in 1950 and 1932–33 If the Dead Rise Not. London: Quercus, 2009. , set in 1934 and 1954 Field Grey. (Field Gray in USA) London: Quercus, 2010. , set in 1954 with flashbacks from 1941, 1931, 1940, & 1945/46.

Prague Fatale. London: Quercus, 2011 , set in 1941 A Man Without Breath. London: Quercus, 2013. , set in 1943 The Lady from Zagreb. London: Quercus, 2015. , set in 1942–3, with framing scenes in 1956. The Other Side of Silence. London: Quercus, 2016. , set in 1956 Prussian Blue. London: Quercus, 2017. , set in 1939, with framing scenes in 1956 Greeks Bearing Gifts. London: Quercus, 2018. , set in 1957 Metropolis. London: Quercus, 2019. , set in 1928

Scott Manson novels January Window. London: Head of Zeus, 23 October 2014. Hand of God. London: Head of Zeus, 4 June 2015. False Nine. London: Head of Zeus, 5 November 2015. London: Chatto & Windus, 1993. Gridiron (variant title, US: The Grid). London: Chatto & Windus, 1995. Esau. London: Chatto & Windus, 1996. A Five Year Plan. London: Hutchinson, 1997. The Second Angel. London: Orion, 1998. The Shot. London: Orion, 1999. Dark Matter: The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton. New York: Crown, 2002. Hitler's Peace. New York: Marian Wood, 2005. Prayer. London: Quercus, 2013. The Winter Horses. New York: Knopf, 2014. Research. London: Quercus, 2014. 1984.4. Hamburg: Rowohlt Verlag, 2021.

Non fiction The Penguin Book of Lies. 1991;1996 The Penguin Book of Fights, Feuds and Heartfelt Hatreds: An Anthology of Antipathy. 1992;1993

Children's fiction (as P. B. Kerr) Children of the Lamp The Akhenaten Adventure. London: Scholastic Press, 2004. The Blue Djinn of Babylon. London: Scholastic Press, 2005. The Cobra King of Kathmandu. London: Scholastic Press, 2006. The Day of the Djinn Warriors. London: Scholastic Press, 2007. The Eye of the Forest. London: Scholastic Press, 2009. The Five Fakirs of Faizabad. London: Scholastic Press, 2010. The Grave Robbers of Genghis Khan. London: Scholastic Press, 2011.

Stand alone fiction One Small Step. London: Simon & Schuster, 2008 (paper). The Most Frightening Story Ever Told. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. Friedrich der Große Detektiv (Frederick the Great Detective). Rowohlt Verlag, 2017.