Born in Dundee Steve Kerr was brought up in the pleasant seaside town of Broughty Ferry in North East Scotland.He spent part of his teenage life in Glamis Castle
,home to Macbeth and the late Queen Mother,reputed to be the most haunted house in Scotland!.He later worked and studied in London,he also lived in Spain,Hungary, and for a number of years , Greece and worked as a lecturer in Yorkshire in the North of England.
Steves interest in writing came from the early 1970`s when a somewhat unconventional teacher encouraged his creativity.His vivid imagination however went back to childhood when he would create stories and draw them in a series of pictures.He has always had a strong interest in history and music.As a teenager he composed many songs but never met with any success .His creative abilities were slowly channeled into writing books .His first novel "A Cafe In Arcadia" was published in 2014,having already published "The Christmas Tree Of Tales" in 2013 under the name S.R.Kerr.
He counts a love of music in his interests as well as travel and reading.He has travelled extensivly to places as diverse as Pakistan and Peru and hopes to visit Japan ,Hong Kong and the USA.

Growing up next to the beach on the River Tay in his home town was a major influence on him as was living in a castle with its dim gloomy staircases ,dark
corridors and walls ouzing with history.He was always interested in anthropology and visiting other countries where he often immersed himself in their culture.Places he visited and lived in inspired much of his work,as did his interest in psychology,people watching.He worked as alecturer,tutor,journalist, civil servant in London where at a point he shared a house with the group The Test Department.
He is currently working on three other books.

1. Eurovision.A plea for respect(continental songs and British atitudes)

2.The Winding Streets Of Kolonaki
Based around the inhabitants of an Athenian suburb

3. The Afternoons of Sanjay Bassinger
Set in London in the summer of 1992

“A drifting unhurried escape...like a bouquet of fine Greek wine”
– Kirkus Reviews