{"id":30440,"date":"2025-07-29T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30440\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:10:08","slug":"simon-munro-kerr-to-release-novel-set-during-world-war-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30440\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Munro Kerr to release novel set during World War One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The most recent novel of Simon Munro Kerr, who was born near Selkirk, Yours is the Earth was\u00a0released on Monday, July 28.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The book\u00a0\u00a0is described as &#8216;fiction based on fact&#8217;\u00a0and follows the lives of three brothers after the unexpected death of their father and fighting during the First World War.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bordertelegraph.com\/news\/25339354.former-borders-schoolteacher-receive-college-fellowship\/?ref=ial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Former Borders schoolteacher to receive college fellowship<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Munro Kerr describes the long process and inspiration for writing the novel.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said: &#8220;I started this book in 1988 shortly after my wife died.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI bought the lighthouse keepers&#8217; house on the Isle of Jura and, perhaps hoping for inspiration from the spirit of George Orwell.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201c[I] Started drafting story lines about the first World War, loosely based on my grandfather&#8217;s adventures, he who had fought through the entire war.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bordertelegraph.com\/news\/25340992.borders-social-care-hub-create-festival-artwork-display\/?ref=ial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Borders social care hub create festival artwork display<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cAs had his brother, William, who ended up as head of the Australian Navy, they even named a range of mountains after him in Australian Antarctica.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Munro Kerr&#8217;s book took a step forward when he met his friend Ector Orr Munn in Palm Beach, who formed a large part of the inspiration for the novel.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Munn recounted his life in between the wars and of his two late brothers, with Munro Kerr forming the story around them.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bordertelegraph.com\/news\/25333080.play-exploring-scots-language-coming-peebles\/?ref=ial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Play exploring the Scots language coming to Peebles<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He added: &#8220;A year later I met Ector Munn when I was staying in Palm Beach, and we became good friends.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe talked for hours about his life and I recorded a lot of it on a micro cassette player.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;He had two brothers that had died before I met him, on which I built my story, with emphasis on Ector.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;He had exceptional recall &amp; diaries dating back to his teens, some of which he gave me copies. He managed to convey life during &amp; between the wars and carry me along with him, to\u00a0the extent that I felt that I was there with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The most recent novel of Simon Munro Kerr, who was born near Selkirk, Yours is the Earth was\u00a0released&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,457,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-30440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-books","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}