Philip Kerr

This article is about the British novelist. For the British politician and diplomat, see Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian.

Philip Kerr (born 1956 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish author. He studied at the University of Birmingham and worked as an advertising copywriter for Saatchi and Saatchi before becoming a full-time writer. He has written for the Sunday Times, Evening Standard and the New Statesman.

Kerr has published eleven novels under his full name and a children's series, Children of the Lamp, under the name P.B. Kerr.

He is married to novelist Jane Thynne.

Bibliography

Novels

• "Berlin Noir" "Bernhard Gunther" trilogy
  • March Violets. London: Viking, 1989. ISBN 0-670-82431-3
  • The Pale Criminal. London: Viking, 1990. ISBN 0-670-82433-X
  • A German Requiem. London: Viking, 1991. ISBN 0-670-83516-1
• Later "Bernhard Gunther" novels
  • The One From the Other. New York: Putnam, 2006. ISBN 978-0399152993
  • A Quiet Flame. London: Quercus, 2008. ISBN 978-1847243560
  • If The Dead Rise Not. London: Quercus, 2009. ISBN 978-1847249425
• A Philosophical Investigation. London: Chatto & Windus, 1992. ISBN 0-7011-4553-6
• Dead Meat. London: Chatto & Windus, 1993. ISBN 0-7011-4703-2
• Gridiron (vt US The Grid ). London: Chatto & Windus, 1995. ISBN 0-7011-6248-1
• Esau. London: Chatto & Windus, 1996. ISBN 0-7011-6281-3
• A Five Year Plan. London: Hutchinson, 1997. ISBN 0-09-180165-6
• The Second Angel. London: Orion, 1998. ISBN 0-7528-1443-5
• The Shot. London: Orion, 1999. ISBN 0-7528-1444-3
• Dark Matter: The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton. New York: Crown, 2002. ISBN 0-609-60981-5
• Hitler's Peace. New York: Marian Wood, 2005. ISBN 0-399-15269-5

Children's fiction (as P.B. Kerr)

• Children of the Lamp
  • The Akhenaten Adventure. London: Scholastic Press, 2004. ISBN 0-439-96365-6
  • The Blue Djinn of Babylon. London: Scholastic Press, 2005. ISBN 0-439-95950-0
  • The Cobra King of Kathmandu. London: Scholastic Press, 2006. ISBN 0-439-95958-6
  • The Day of the Djinn Warriors. London: Scholastic Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-4071-0365-5
  • The Eye of the Forest. London: Scholastic Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-439-93215-8
• One Small Step. London: Simon & Schuster, 2008 (paper). ISBN 978-1-847383006

External links

• Official website
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• Interview with Philip Kerr on Scene of the Crime blog, about Kerr's relationship with Berlin.
• "The Intimidating Mr. Kerr", an interview with the author, in The Rap Sheet.