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Alison Kerr

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United Kingdom
As seen in: MSN Ireland, Yahoo Entertainment, Yahoo Life, Daily Mail, Emerging Infectious Diseases, MSN UK, The Telegraph, Yahoo Canada, Daily Express, New Zealand Herald and
Covers:  Movies, jazz, style, nostalgia, TV, travel
Doesn't Cover: Health, sport, politics, finance
Freelance journalist & critic. authory.com/AlisonKerr Movie mad. Currently writing first biography of Ella Logan. For jazz tweets - @girlfridayjazz

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Freelance feature writer, critic and broadcaster, specialising in movies, jazz, style, nostalgia. Available for snappy commentary and in-depth features. Has written for The Times, The Herald, The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, The Independent, the Daily Record and has won three Jasmine Awards for writing about fragrance. Regular contributor to Times Radio and BBC Radio.
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Scotsman obituaries: Ken Peplowski, Edinburgh Jazz Festival favourite

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By Alison Kerr Verified
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Ken Peplowski, jazz clarinettist and saxophonist. Born: May 23 1959 in Cleveland, Ohio, US. Died: February 2 2026, aged 66​ Ken Peplowski was a phenomenally gifted and internationally acclaimed jazz clarinettist and tenor saxophonist who, for 30 years, was a favourite of Scottish jazz audiences.
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A compelling and evocative biography of the redoubtable Mrs. Mandelbaum

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By Alison Kerr Verified, Max Jeffery Verified, Kate Andrews Verified, Ben Domenech
| The Spectator (World) Verified
If you thought organized crime in the United States had its roots in the Prohibition era, think again. As Margalit Fox demonstrates in this compelling and evocative biography, its seeds were sown half a century earlier, when a resourceful, daring and ingenious woman enjoyed a long and successful career as a forerunner of the familiar twentieth-century “Godfather” figure.
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Barbara Stanwyck, an obscene typo and the sordid story behind Double Indemnity

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By Alison Kerr Verified
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