Justin Kerr-Smiley

Justin Kerr-Smiley was born in 1965 and raised in Scotland. He was educated at Newcastle University. Awarded a BBC bursary for post graduate studies in journalism, he worked as a radio reporter in Sydney and London. He then joined the Associated Press (APTN) and has reported from Northern Ireland, the Balkans, South America and the West Bank.

His first novel Under The Sun is published by Hachette. The Sunday Telegraph described it as: 'a small masterpiece; the best novel that I have read about war since Captain Corelli's Mandolin'.

In 2011 he received a travel scholarship from the Society of Authors to research Goodbye To The President: a novel about the 1973 coup in Chile, which was published in 2014. In 2022 Universe published Codename Edelweiss, a thriller about the search for Hitler’s son.

He lives in London.

His novel A Leap in the Dark will be published by Chiselbury in hardback and kindle/epub in November 2024. It is now available for pre-order here

PRAISE FOR JUSTIN KERR-SMILEY AND ‘UNDER THE SUN’

‘The gripping and beautifully paced debut of an intriguing new talent.’ WILLIAM DALRYMPLE

‘It’s a small masterpiece; the best novel that I have read about war since Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. It can well stand the comparison.’  SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

‘…Kerr-Smiley’s passionate tale should convince readers that remarkable, as well as horrific, things can happen in the midst of war.’ PUBLISHERS WEEKLY