Kerr, Peter – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Mon, 03 Mar 2025 14:08:43 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Kerr, Peter – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Snowball oranges https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/snowball-oranges/ Sat, 10 Feb 2024 14:19:47 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/snowball-oranges/ One Mallorcan Summer https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/one-mallorcan-summer/ Thu, 13 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/one-mallorcan-summer/ Spring sees Peter Kerr and family relaxing into a supposedly simpler way of life, growing oranges on their little valley farm in Mallorca. But there are surprises aplenty and to test their resolve, stamina and sense of humour. An engaging account of tranquilo life from the author of Snowball Oranges, celebrating all the charm of Mallorca.

]]> Having battled and succumbed to the mañana pace  of rural Mallorca, spring sees Peter Kerr and family  relaxing into a supposedly simpler way of life, growing oranges on their little valley farm, Ca’s Mayoral.

However, even after the trials, tribulations and triumphs  of their initiation, Spain has not yet finished with them.  Embarrassing subtleties of the language, brushes with the  local police, the unfortunate outcome of a drinking session?  surprises aplenty await this venturesome émigré family.

A colourful account of tranquilo life from the  author of Snowball Oranges, here’s all the charm  of Mallorca: where you seldom do today what  can be more judiciously put off till mañana!

]]> Snowball Oranges: One Mallorcan Winter https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/snowball-oranges-one-mallorcan-winter/ Thu, 13 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/snowball-oranges-one-mallorcan-winter/ I could hardly believe my eyes. A cold mantle of white was rapidly transforming our sunny paradise into a bizarre winterscape of citrus Christmas trees, cotton wool palms and snowball oranges.

When the Kerr family leave Scotland to grow oranges in a secluded valley on the island of Mallorca they are surprised to be greeted by the same freezing weather they have left behind. Then they realise that their new orange farm is a bit of a lemon?

Laughter, finds Peter Kerr, is the best medicine when faced with a local dish of rats and the live-chicken-down-a-chimney technique of household maintenance. But their Mallorcan neighbours help them adapt to their new life. Snowball Oranges is hilarious and revealing, full of life and colour, set against the breathtaking beauty of the Mediterranean.

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