Philip Kerr / P.B. Kerr

(born 1956 - ) - Edinburgh

Peter Kerr / P.B. Kerr

Philip Kerr was born and raised in Edinburgh, and studied Law at the University of Birmingham. He now lives in London with his wife and three children.

Although he studied law, his first career was in advertising copywriting. Later, he took up journalism and then novel writing. He has written thrillers for adults, including the acclaimed Bernard Gunther 'Berlin Noir' series, and writes children's novels under the nom de plume 'P.B. Kerr', starting with The Children of the Lamp series.

Kerr says that he was spurred to write his first children's novel in an effort to wean his son away from television and video games and on to books. There are now four novels in the series, which has been optioned by filmmakers DreamWorks.

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    Ex-policeman Bernie Gunther thought he'd seen everything on the streets of 1930s Berlin. But then he went freelance, and each case he tackled sucked him further into the grisly excesses of Nazi subculture. This omnibus contains the novels 'March Violets', 'The Pale Criminal' and 'A German Requiem'.
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    A woman seeks Bernie out. Her husband has disappeared. She's not looking to get him back - he's a wanted man who ran one of the most vicious concentration camps in Poland. She just wants confirmation that he's dead. It's a simple enough job. But in post-war Germany, nothing is simple.

Bibliography

The Bernard Gunther Series

  1. March Violets - 1989
  2. The Pale Criminal - 1990
  3. A German Requiem - 1991
  4. The One From The Other - 2006

Omnibus

Novels

  • Pacifism is Not Enough - 1990
  • A Philosophical Investigation - 1992
  • Dead Meat - 1993
  • Gridiron - 1995
  • Esau - 1996
  • A Five Year Plan - 1997
  • The Second Angel - 1998
  • The Shot - 1990
  • Dark Matter: The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton - 2002
  • Hitler's Peace - 2005
  • One Small Step - 2007

As P.B. Kerr

  • The Children of the Lamp Series
  1. The Akhenaten Adventure - 2005
  2. The Blue Djinn of Babylon - 2005
  3. The Cobra King of Kathmandu - 2006
  4. The Day of the Djinn Warrior - 2007
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    When 12-year-old twins, Philippa and John Gaunt, are plunged into an adventure, they need all their magical skills, courage and intelligence to survive. Their adversary is the terrifying Blue Djinn who lures Philippa to a secret kingdom in ancient Babylon. John must embark on an epic journey across the globe to rescue her.
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    John and Philippa travel to Nepal and India on the trail of a lost talisman and mysterious assassins who murder by snakebite. Their race to unravel some venomous clues turns into a desperate rescue mission when their djinn-uncle is captured by the Cult of Nine Cobras.
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    The fourth djinncredible adventure of the Children of the Lamp. theft, hauntings & red-hot mystery - it's a race against time for John & Philippa Gaunt to outwit the wicked Iblis. But can the djinn twins stop Iblis now he has woken the ancient warriors of the long-dead emperor from their sleep?
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    It's 1969 and Scott is doing all the things that normal boys do - as well as flying planes with his flight instructor dad. When Scott successfully crash lands a training plane, NASA come to call. They are conducting a secret space programme - a test flight before the first moon landing. Who better to pilot their craft than a young boy aviator?