Gordon Kerr Books in Order

A true crime collection about informers, moles, grasses, and whistleblowers who turned on friends, gangs, or causes. Kerr is interested in the cost of betrayal as much as the thrill of revelation.

Part handbook and part market guide, this annual resource points poets toward magazines, competitions, publishers, and practical advice. It is designed to help writers move from private drafts to public submission.

A bleak collection of murder cases marked by calculation rather than impulse. Kerr focuses on killers whose actions seem especially detached, planned, and chillingly matter-of-fact.

This book recreates Georgian London as a living city of streets, manners, crime, commerce, and spectacle. Kerr gives readers a social history tour that is vivid enough to feel almost like a walk through town.

An accessible introduction to the sinuous lines, decorative richness, and cross-disciplinary ambition of Art Nouveau. Kerr traces the movement through architecture, interiors, design, and visual art.

A lively dictionary of Australian slang, insults, idioms, and odd turns of phrase. It is both a practical guide and a cheerful reminder of how funny, inventive, and irreverent language can be.

A darkly curious collection of notorious hotels marked by murder, mystery, and scandal. Kerr uses the buildings as entry points into true crime stories where glamour and dread sit uncomfortably close together.

Kerr visits notorious houses linked to murder and asks what lingers in the places where terrible crimes occurred. The book is macabre but more interested in setting and story than sensational gore.

This illustrated guide introduces the painters who changed how light, colour, and modern life appeared on canvas. It is a compact way into Impressionism for readers who want the essentials without art-historical overload.

A brisk look at pirate lore and history, from life at sea to the outlaws who turned plunder into legend. Kerr keeps the tone lively while staying rooted in the harsher realities behind the myth.

A collection of contract killers and cold-blooded murderers whose crimes were driven by money, orders, or ruthless calculation. Kerr treats the cases as grim studies in method and motive.

Kerr lays out world history as a long, connected sequence of turning points, empires, discoveries, and conflicts. The format is simple but effective for readers who like to see the whole sweep at once.

A chronological guide to Britain's long story, from prehistory to the modern state. Kerr arranges major events clearly, making it easy to follow how monarchy, war, reform, and identity evolved over time.

This reference guide follows rulers, dynasties, and successions across centuries of monarchy. It is useful for readers who want the royal story laid out as a sequence of reigns, feuds, and political turns.

A wide chronological guide to the events, people, and shifts that shaped the world from earliest times to the present. It is made for dipping into when you want dates and context side by side.

From Charlemagne to the modern European project, Kerr maps the political, military, and cultural story of the continent. It is a useful starter volume for readers who want the big picture first.

A large, unsettling collection of murderous figures, tyrants, and predators from different periods. Kerr frames the book around the idea of psychopathy and the chilling charm, manipulation, and violence that can accompany it.

This collection looks at life on the run from the perspective of wanted criminals, escapees, and high-profile disappearances. Kerr shows how desperation, reinvention, and constant risk define the fugitive's life.

Kerr explores the final days and last moments of fifty notable and notorious people. It is an irresistible browse for readers drawn to biography, mortality, and the strange details that gather around famous deaths.

Kerr collects influential leaders from across history, from conquerors and monarchs to activists and ideologues. The book is interested in the different ways strong personalities can shape, improve, or damage the world around them.

A light, playful book that shows Kerr in an easier, more humorous mood. It is built for quick browsing and gentle amusement rather than the heavier history and crime he is better known for.

A chronological guide to a decade of upheaval, rebellion, music, politics, and cultural change. Kerr arranges the 1960s as a stream of events so readers can see how much happened, and how quickly.

An illustrated introduction to William Morris, his designs, and the ideals behind the Arts and Crafts movement. The book pairs biography and context with the decorative work that made his name endure.

A comic compendium of British embarrassments, failures, and splendid misjudgments. Kerr writes with a dry sense of humour, turning national underachievement into affectionate entertainment.

A short work that steps away from Kerr's usual history and crime subjects into more intimate, emotional territory. It reads like a small detour in a varied bibliography, with feeling and memory at its centre.

Part travel book and part cultural browse, this volume roams across Italy's regions in search of beauty, atmosphere, and local character. It is made for readers who like the country beyond the obvious postcard stops.

A visual introduction to Monet built around one hundred key works. Kerr supplies the background, but the main pleasure is watching the painter's colour, light, and changing styles unfold across the pages.

From human origins to the Arab Spring, Kerr sketches the history of a vast and varied continent in clear, broad strokes. It is ambitious in scope but designed for general readers rather than specialists.

A grim overview of American serial murder, moving through famous names and lesser-known cases alike. Kerr looks at compulsion, violence, and the recurring failures that let predators keep going.

This volume looks at betrayal long before the modern spy thriller, from court conspiracies to political turncoats. Kerr shows how treachery has always flourished wherever power, loyalty, and fear collide.

A focused survey of serial killers from Australia, told through short case studies. Kerr outlines the crimes, methods, and investigations without turning the book into a wallow in gore.

A regional companion to Kerr's other serial killer collections, this book focuses on European cases. The short profiles trace patterns of predation, investigation, and public shock across different countries.

This collection follows criminals and outlaws who slipped the net and sparked major manhunts. Kerr is interested in how they ran, how long they stayed free, and why life on the run rarely looks glamorous for long.

Another tight collection of escape and pursuit stories, this time focused on what happens after the break. Kerr follows the improvisation, luck, and mistakes that shape life on the run.

A fast-moving gallery of nineteenth-century figures who led nations, movements, rebellions, and empires. Kerr is interested in both achievement and damage, which gives the book a useful edge.

Kerr surveys twentieth-century leaders who shaped politics, war, reform, and revolution for better or worse. The book is less about praise than about influence, consequence, and the weight of public power.

This volume gathers figures from the ancient world whose ideas, conquests, or teachings reshaped their societies. It is a brisk introduction to leadership at its most visionary, forceful, and dangerous.

Kerr turns to the medieval centuries to profile monarchs, war leaders, and religious figures who left deep marks on their age. The mix of sainthood, statecraft, and brutality makes for a lively cross-section.

A broad collection of rulers, generals, reformers, and political figures whose decisions altered history. Kerr keeps the profiles brief and readable, making the book easy to dip into.

From sieges to terrorist standoffs, this book gathers dramatic real-life hostage crises from different periods and places. Kerr highlights the human pressure inside events where time, fear, and leverage matter most.

Kerr recounts real abductions and hijackings carried out by terrorists and extremists, from airport dramas to long sieges. The stories are tense and often bleak, with the emphasis on fear, pressure, and fallout.

Kerr explores the gruesome trade in corpses, from grave robbers to the medical demand that helped fuel them. It is a macabre slice of social history with more than a little true crime in its bones.

A fast survey of notorious kidnappings, ransom plots, and abductions that gripped the public imagination. Kerr keeps the focus on the victims, the captors, and the nerve-racking negotiations in between.

Kerr profiles organised crime figures whose power rested on intimidation, loyalty, and fear. It is a quick tour through mob history, where ambition and betrayal usually travel together.

A true crime collection built around geographic profiling, the forensic method that studies where offenders strike. Kerr uses maps and case studies to show how location can help investigators track dangerous patterns.

This is a gallery of escapees, wanted criminals, and vanishing acts from the darker side of modern history. Kerr tells the chase stories cleanly and lets the tension come from the facts.

A grim survey of mass murderers who kill in sudden, explosive bursts. Kerr looks at the lives, methods, and warning signs behind crimes that unfold with terrifying speed.

A compact espionage collection featuring spies, double agents, and political betrayers from modern history. Kerr is especially interested in what drives people to cross lines of loyalty and secrecy.

Kerr gathers real stories of women linked to deception, seduction, and betrayal. The book sits where true crime and scandal meet, asking how desire, ambition, and resentment can turn deadly.

Kerr casts the net wide in this international collection of serial killer profiles. It is a broad, unsettling tour of notorious cases, with short sketches that show how different places produce frighteningly similar patterns.

This illustrated volume explores the stylish world of Art Deco fashion through key images and short commentary. Kerr links the era's glamour to modernity, luxury, and changing ideas about women and dress.

This book examines school and college massacres in North America and Europe, from earlier cases to modern shootings. Kerr lays out the facts, patterns, and motives behind crimes that shattered places meant to feel safe.

Kerr rounds up some of the most violent gangsters and mob figures of the modern era. It is a quick, punchy survey of criminal careers built on brutality, ambition, and fear.

An illustrated celebration of Queen Elizabeth II that mixes biography, public ritual, and royal history. It follows the life of the monarch alongside the ceremonies and milestones that defined her reign.

Kerr covers more than four thousand years of Chinese history, from early dynasties to modern economic power. It is a broad, fast-moving introduction that balances rulers, ideas, conflict, and cultural change.

A browseable compendium of inventions, discoveries, milestones, and the people who got there first. It is the sort of reference book that rewards dipping in and stumbling across unexpected beginnings.

A compact collection of famous escape stories, from outlaw legends to modern fugitives. Kerr focuses on the planning, nerve, and chaos behind breakouts that turned criminals into dark folklore.

This brisk history follows the papacy from St Peter to the modern era, linking each period to wider political and religious change. It is a good entry point for readers curious about power, faith, and succession.

From pre-colonial peoples and Portuguese conquest to dictatorship, inequality, and modern ambition, this book sketches Brazil in broad strokes. Kerr offers a quick but useful way into a huge national story.

A concise account of the war that shattered Europe, from the road to 1914 to trench warfare, political collapse, and uneasy peace. Kerr keeps the military story tied to its human and historical cost.

A region-by-region travel book for readers who want to look beyond Italy's headline attractions. Kerr mixes history, landscape, local character, and hidden corners into an inviting guide for armchair and real travellers alike.

A visual guide to Mackintosh's architecture, interiors, furniture, and design language. The book shows how his clean lines and decorative detail helped define the Glasgow Style.

An illustrated tour through the monster made famous by H. P. Lovecraft and the wider mythos around it. Kerr follows Cthulhu through fiction, art, film, and games to show why the creature still haunts popular culture.

An illustrated introduction to Klimt that moves from his decorative brilliance to the sensual and symbolic charge of his work. It is a compact way to see why his paintings remain so immediately recognisable.

An accessible survey of illuminated manuscripts that shows how text, decoration, and devotion came together on the page. It is both art history and a visual feast of colour, gold, and intricate design.

A compact, illustrated guide to Turner's art, tracing his movement from landscape observation to near-abstraction. The emphasis is on the paintings themselves and the restless vision behind them.

This volume introduces the world of Japanese woodblock prints through a strong selection of images and concise background. It is a welcoming guide to a tradition known for atmosphere, line, and unforgettable colour.

This illustrated introduction presents Paul Klee through a selection of key works and concise commentary. It is a handy way into an artist whose playful surfaces often hide careful thought and experiment.

Kerr gives a clear account of the Vietnam War, beginning with colonial history and moving through American escalation, major turning points, and the war's aftermath. It is a solid introduction to a conflict that still casts a long shadow.

This travel guide searches out Europe's lesser-known destinations and overlooked pleasures. Kerr's focus is on atmosphere and discovery, making the book as good for browsing at home as for planning a trip.

This volume gathers key works by Munch and places them in the context of his life and artistic development. It is especially good at showing how personal anxiety and modern feeling shaped his imagery.

This short history tracks the Middle East from ancient cultures and empires to the modern era of nationalism, conflict, and political upheaval. It is written to make a complicated region easier to follow.

An illustrated guide to Bosch's strange, crowded, unforgettable worlds. The book helps readers navigate the symbols, moral drama, and visual invention that make his paintings so endlessly discussable.

Kerr introduces the artists of the Pre-Raphaelite circle through a concise overview and a strong selection of images. It is a useful entry point into their colour, symbolism, medievalism, and fascination with beauty.

A quirky speculative tale about what happens when ordinary life stalls and something larger seems to intervene. Kerr uses the premise to toy with fate, faith, and the hope of a second chance.

A brisk overview of India's long history, from early civilisations and shifting kingdoms to colonial rule and modern nationhood. Kerr keeps the scale wide while staying readable and grounded.

Kerr digs up genuine exam questions from the postwar decades and invites readers to see how they measure up. The result is a playful mix of nostalgia, brain-teasing, and classroom history.

This quiz book lets readers test themselves on genuine exam questions from the 1990s and early 2000s. It is part nostalgia, part trivia challenge, and part argument about whether school has really become easier.

An illustrated survey of the Glasgow Boys, whose bold colour and fresh technique helped reshape Scottish painting. The book offers a clear route into the group, their influences, and their standout works.

A compact guide to the world's major religions and several smaller or newer movements. Kerr explains origins, beliefs, worship, and sacred texts in a clear way that is built for newcomers.

This volume introduces the Scottish Colourists through a gallery of key paintings and brief context. It is a compact appreciation of artists who brought vivid colour and modern continental influence into British art.

Kerr surveys the age of Queen Victoria through empire, industry, reform, and social change. It is a broad, accessible introduction to the people and ideas that shaped nineteenth-century Britain.

Set in wartime northern Italy and in 1999, this thriller links a dead woman's secrets to old betrayals in the Valtellina. Love, revenge, and the long shadow of the Resistance drive a story that moves between past and present.

A concise history of the Korean War, from its Cold War origins to the fighting that ended in stalemate rather than peace. Kerr covers the politics, personalities, battles, and the legacy of a conflict that still shapes the peninsula.

From wartime fascists to Cold War moles, Kerr profiles the Britons who betrayed their country in the twentieth century. It is a brisk, readable look at motive, ideology, greed, and the human mess behind treason.

An illustrated history of the 1960s told through one hundred maps and visual spreads. Kerr turns politics, protest, music, war, sport, and social change into a browsable portrait of a decade that remade the modern world.