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Comedian and national treasure Bob Mortimer is best known for being one half of the infamous Reeves & Mortimer.

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• Oct 24 2022 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne Theatre & Opera House The Satsuma Complex - Bob Mortimer In Conversation with Charlie Higson
• May 15 2022 Crawley, The Hawth An Evening with Mortimer & Whitehouse Bob Mortimer, Paul Whitehouse
• May 14 2022 University of Lincoln Student Union (The Platform & The Engine Shed) An Afternoon with Mortimer & Whitehouse Bob Mortimer, Paul Whitehouse
• May 14 2022 University of Lincoln Student Union (The Platform & The Engine Shed) An Evening with Mortimer & Whitehouse Bob Mortimer, Paul Whitehouse
• May 13 2022 Stevenage, Gordon Craig Theatre An Evening with Mortimer & Whitehouse Bob Mortimer, Paul Whitehouse
• May 12 2022 Colchester, Charter Hall An Evening with Mortimer & Whitehouse Bob Mortimer, Paul Whitehouse
• May 11 2022 O2 Guildhall Southampton An Evening with Mortimer & Whitehouse Bob Mortimer, Paul Whitehouse

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Gallery Books UK has revealed details of Bob Mortimer’s new novel,  The Hotel Avocado,  due in August 2024.  

Mortimer’s second novel is a sequel to his bestselling début The Satsuma Complex , winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction last year.

Holly Harris, publishing director at the Simon & Schuster UK imprint, acquired world rights from Caroline Chignell at PBJ Management. It will be published on 29th August 2024 in hardback, e-book and audio, read by Mortimer, alongside “an unmissable marketing and publicity campaign,” Gallery Books said. Special editions will be available for independent booksellers, and signed copies available to pre-order via Waterstones and W H Smith.  

Mortimer said: “I missed Gary, Emily and Grace so much that I decided to write the next chapter in their adventures. Gary is slighter braver, Emily well out of her depth and Grace as stubborn and rude as ever. Together they might succeed, but separated they stand to fall. I wish them all the best and if you ever bump into them please feel free to buy them a slice of Battenberg.” 

Harris said: “Bob has written another brilliant book and we cannot wait to publish it. The Hotel Avocado is as funny and thrilling as The Satsuma Complex , and readers are going to love it.” 

The synopsis reads: “Gary Thorn is struggling with a big decision. Should he stay in London, wallowing in the safety of his legal job in Peckham and eating pies with his next door neighbour, Grace, and her dog Lassoo, or should he move to Brighton, where his girlfriend Emily is about to open The Hotel Avocado? Either way, he’d be letting someone down. 

“But sinister forces are gathering in a cloud of launderette-scented vape smoke, and the arrival of the mysterious Mr Sequence puts Gary in an even worse predicament: soon he might be dead.” 

Combined sales of Mortimer’s memoir And Away … and his début novel The Satsuma Complex (both published by S&S UK) have now surpassed 1.1 million copies for £9.9m through Nielsen BookScan. The two books were shortlisted for The British Book Awards, in Non-Fiction Narrative Book of the Year 2022 and Début Fiction Book of the Year 2023 categories respectively.

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Bob Mortimer

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Bob is known for his work with Vic Reeves as part of their Vic and Bob comedy double act, and also more recently, for his fishing on BBC Two’s critically acclaimed Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing .

Bob's debut book 'And Away...' was released in 2021 to huge critical acclaim.

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Before Bob Mortimer, the comic and author became Bob Mortimer, the comic and author, he was Bob Mortimer: The Cockroach King. A successful lawyer who represented tenants all across London suffering from cockroaches and other infestations in their rental units.

Mortimer didn't try his hand at comedy until his late 20s, when he met Vic Reeves – an established comic who was playing the London club circuit. Soon, they were a double act in the beloved British comedy tradition, appearing on dozens of TV shows, including variety shows and sitcoms.

These days, Bob Mortimer is also a novelist, having just released his U.S. debut. Mortimer joins the show to talk about his new book The Clementine Complex, a fun, funny mystery novel that's in bookstores now.

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And Away… review – how Bob Mortimer went from sidekick to standalone

An often moving memoir examines the comedian’s unlikely journey from Big Nights Out to riverbank ruminations with Paul Whitehouse

N o one was more surprised than Bob Mortimer at the unexpected success of Gone Fishing , his BBC two-hander with Paul Whitehouse , now on its fourth series, in which the old friends sit on a riverbank ruminating on life and generally arsing about while attempting to land a fish. “In many ways, the show is the culmination of my journey back from sidekick Bob to standalone Robert,” he reflects, towards the end of his first memoir, And Away… , adding: “I could never have got there without my heart nonsense.” The poignancy of the show is the authenticity of its premise; long before they thought of pitching it for television, Whitehouse really did insist that Mortimer accompany him on fishing trips as an aid to recovery after a triple heart bypass in 2015, an act of generosity that Mortimer credits with giving him “the kick up the arse I needed” to get back on his feet.

The echo of that brush with mortality at the age of 56 reverberates through the book, though Mortimer is the opposite of self-pitying; throughout, he errs on the side of downplaying the various hardships he has experienced, as if he’s constantly seeking the elusive balance between sincerity and entertainment. If Gone Fishing , as he says, “changed [public] perception of me as a performer”, revealing a Mortimer that is a long way from the madcap “Bob” persona he inhabited as professional sidekick to Vic Reeves for most of his career, the memoir confirms this more thoughtful, reflective side.

The story of Mortimer’s 30-year showbiz career is remarkable not least because it hinges almost entirely on a chance meeting in a south London pub in 1988. Unlike most of the artists who later became his friends and colleagues, young Robert had never harboured ambitions to perform; he was a desperately shy boy who suffered such crippling social anxiety that he endured three years of university barely speaking to another soul. By the age of 30, he was growing increasingly disillusioned with his work as a council solicitor, a career he had embarked on after studying welfare law in a desire to make a difference. His only previous brush with the limelight was an abortive attempt at pub karaoke, but when an old schoolfriend invited him along to a local comedy show and he saw the first chaotic iteration of Vic Reeves Big Night Out , it was an epiphany: “What is he? Where am I? Who sanctioned this? I have been transported, in an instant, to a world of entertainment far, far away from anything I have ever witnessed before.”

“He” is Jim Moir and as the Vic Reeves show gathers word-of-mouth momentum and the attention of reviewers and TV scouts, so Mortimer becomes friends with Moir and is given small, mainly improvised parts as his straight man. “I have never minded… playing second fiddle,” he says, an outlook he attributes to being the youngest of four brothers, but there is a quiet pride when he talks about the first time Moir allowed him to contribute more of his own material to a project (not until their 2003 drama Catterick ) that is the closest he comes to any suggestion of complaint about being in Moir’s shadow. “I suppose it must have eaten away at me a bit somewhere… or I wouldn’t have been so chuffed,” he confesses.

The fault that often afflicts comedians’ memoirs is a compulsion to be “on” all the time, as if anxious that the core readership of fans might feel cheated if the joke rate drops. And Away… can fall prey to this at times. There are sections based on Mortimer’s Would I Lie to You? appearances, where he mixes anecdotes from childhood or his previous career with daft fictions, but these lose something on the page and he has enough genuine stories to make the surreal, invented bits feel superfluous. I’d also have preferred fewer recollections of playground antics and more about how it felt to lose his father in a car crash at the age of six or his experiences of depression.

“I found that I no longer felt the need to just be the funny guy,” he says of his career since the heart operation. “I was actually better at just being myself.” The book, too, grows more confident in talking about serious subjects as it progresses and it’s the honesty and openness that he allows in Gone Fishing that make And Away… , by the end, an unexpectedly moving read.

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Nine things we learned from Bob Mortimer's Desert Island Discs

Comedian bob mortimer has made a name for himself, alongside partner vic reeves, for his surreal and eccentric brand of humour. the pair have been on our screens for over 30 years, in a treasure trove of popular programmes including shooting stars, house of fools, the smell of reeves and mortimer and randall and hopkirk (deceased)., after undergoing a triple bypass operation in 2015, bob has branched out and now also works on a popular football podcast athletico mince, and his tv series with paul whitehouse, mortimer and whitehouse: gone fishing., here’s what we learned from his desert island discs ..

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1. he’s got an eclectic cv.

As a teenager, Bob took all manner of jobs. “I worked in a chicken factory, in a steel foundry, I worked on the bins for a year or so," he explains. "It started as a summer job, but I stayed on because I liked it very much. I liked it that it made you very fit, doing all the lifting and that, so I could wear short-sleeved t-shirts, which I’d never been able to do before!” After passing his O-levels, Bob was initially tempted to become an electrician, before deciding to sit his A-levels and go on to study law.

2. He loves the rock band Free (and so does Vic Reeves)

While Vic and Bob only grew up about 20 miles from each other, they didn’t meet until later in life in London. They love the band Free, both name-checking bass player Andy Fraser in their respective Desert Island Discs. Bob says: “When I was about 13, I went to see this band called Free, who I’d never heard, and I just fell in love with them. I found my heroes. I stood at the front with my chin on the stage.” He chooses Free’s On My Way as his second track for the island. When Vic was cast away in 2003, he chose Mr Big by Free, claiming that his and Bob’s party piece was to mimic Andy Fraser’s bass solo with their mouths.

3. Fame has helped him with a life-long shyness

Despite being known for his exuberant performance style, Bob is rather more reserved away from the spotlight: “My shyness probably defined the first 30 years of my life, really. It’s a crippling thing. It can be very lonely knowing that you’ve got things to say, but you daren’t say them. I’ve had this gift, I was on television, so people come up to me and say hello, so they make the first move and I learned in an easy way that it’s OK to talk to people, it’s OK to contribute and try and have your voice heard.”

4. His father’s early death shaped his whole life

When Bob was just seven years old his father was killed in a car crash. Bob says of that time: “I just remember coming back home, being ushered away by policemen, not knowing what was happening and then a couple of weeks later being told that my dad had died… and then crying and being very sad about it, then kind of forgetting about it really and thinking that it hadn’t affected me at all. But then, later in my life [I realised] it was probably the defining moment of my life, it’s defined my personality.”

5. He set fire to the family home when he was little

Bob describes himself as his mum’s "little helper" as a child, regularly taking on household chores – but he was also responsible for a big blaze in the family home. He explains: “I was counting my fireworks up and I lit some sparklers. It said on the packet ‘not suitable for indoor use’ – to me that meant that they’re OK for indoor use. The sparklers lit the box of fireworks and I ran the box through to the kitchen and let them go off. I then spent about an hour trying to get rid of all the marks out of the lino and off cabinets. I walked back into the living room and it was fully ablaze. I walked round to the two old ladies that lived next door and I said, ‘My house is on fire!’ And they said, ‘You know, we thought it was.’”

6. His dream was to be a professional footballer

Bob is a lifelong fan of Middlesbrough FC and growing up he thought he was heading for a career with the team. “I captained my school team three years earlier than I should have," he explains. "I played for Middlesbrough’s youth team. At the age of 16, I went into a shed at the training ground and was told that they weren’t signing me on, so that was the end of that dream. Football was my life. I played football when I got to school, football every break and football as soon as I got home.”

7. The Who determined his choice of uni

One of Bob’s chosen tracks is The Punk and the Godfather from The Who’s 1973 rock opera Quadrophenia. The album tells the story of Jimmy, a disillusioned young mod who heads for Brighton. Bob says: “I was obsessed with this album at the time and reading the story of Jimmy having his adventures in Brighton, I just thought to myself, ‘Yeah, you know it’s time I had a little adventure. I’ve got to do this.’ Silly as it might sound, that’s why I went to Brighton.” Bob studied law at the University of Sussex.

8. He’s a qualified lawyer, and was once nicknamed ‘The Cockroach King’

Bob says that studying law never suited him and that he didn’t have any friends on his course, feeling alienated after turning up to a black tie drinks reception in his Middlesbrough football shirt. But he persevered with his studies: “I became a solicitor and joined a firm in Peckham, where there was a lot of cockroach infestation in the high rises in that particular borough. I was the first one to take them to court using the Public Health Act. I was on the front of the local paper. There was a picture of me as The Cockroach King. And I were right proud.”

9. Paul Whitehouse helped him recover from heart surgery – and won them a TV commission

In 2015 Bob underwent a triple bypass operation. He says: “You can go two ways after heart surgery, you can either get scared and just shrink onto your sofa and keep yourself safe, or you can engage with life again. I think I was probably in danger of taking the first option. Paul just kept asking me, ‘Come on, let’s go fishing.’ [He] kept asking, until eventually I did go fishing with Paul and I absolutely adored it. I discovered something that I’d lost from when I was young: just a purposeless day, with a friend just chewing the fat.” The two were ultimately commissioned to film their trips for BBC Two, making Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing. The show was a hit with viewers and has been re-commissioned for a second series.

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Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse are going on tour in the UK next year, with tickets on sale right now .

An Evening with Mortimer & Whitehouse will see the pair hosting a number of conversations, whilst also answering audience questions.

It comes on the back of their successful Gone Fishing programme on BBC Two, which completed its fourth series last month, attracting up to 2.5million viewers per episode.

The tour will only be at a limited number of locations, starting off in Stevenage and ending in Crawley in May 2022.

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Wednesday May 11, 2022 - O2 Guildhall, Southampton

Thursday May 12, 2022 - Charter Hall, Colchester

Friday May 13, 2022 - Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage

Saturday May 14, 2022 - Engine Shed, Lincoln (2.40pm)

Saturday May 14, 2022 - Engine Shed, Lincoln (7.30pm)

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Bob Mortimer's new book to be called The Long Shoe

'About a bloke who's wife leaves him, but maybe she's been taken'

Bob Mortimer has revealed that his second novel will be a mystery, provisionally titled The Long Shoe.

The comic told The One Show last night that he only had 20 pages left to write on the follow-up to his debut, The Satsuma Complex.

He said the new book was ‘about a bloke who's wife leaves him, but maybe she's been taken, he's got to find out. On the way he utilises a very long shoe to solve the mystery. It's a great book.’

Incredulous fellow guest Greg Davies asked: ‘Have you written it Bob? It sounds like you're making it up’, to which Mortimer replied: ‘Honestly!’

Mortimer had previously told Kathy Burke that the new book would not feature Gary Thorn, the frustrated legal assistant at the heart of his first book, who was loosely based on his early life.

Speaking on Burke’s Where There's A Will, There's A Wake podcast he said: ‘I thought if I did the same character, I'll just write the same book, so I thought, you know, go do something different.’

He last month revealed that the first book was being retitled The Clementine Complex for the American market, where it is being released on Tuesday. Satusmas tend to be called satsuma tangerines in the US, where they are less common than in the UK.

No publication date has yet been announced for The Long Shoe, which will be released by Simon & Schuster.

The Satsuma Complex came out last year following the success of his memoirs, And Away…

Mortimer was onThe One Show with Paul Whitehouse to talk about the return of Gone Fishing to BBC Two on Sunday. The pair said that during the filming of the the sixth series they saw a ghost in Dumfries, setting up motion detectors to try to capture it.

Gone Fishing returns Sunday 3rd September. The memory ofTed's birthday party in ep1 will haunt Whitehouse forever. pic.twitter.com/5qXojxUs1S — Bob Mortimer (@RealBobMortimer) August 25, 2023

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Bob Mortimer was born in Middlesbrough in 1959, the youngest of four sons. He trained as a solicitor before a chance encounter with Vic Reeves in the 1980s led to a successful career in comedy as half of duo Reeves and Mortimer. His screen credits include Shooting Stars, Big Night Out, Catterick and most recently BBC2's Gone Fishing . His memoir, And Away… , published in 2021. It became the bestselling memoir of the year, was named Times and Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for Non-fiction Book of the Year at the National Book Awards. The Satsuma Complex is his first novel. He's on Twitter and Instagram as @RealBobMortimer.

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‘It’s probably fairer to say that since his brush with mortality, Mortimer has come into his own. There is this book, which is a triumph… And Away is as good a celebrity autobiography as you could hope to read, and enthusiastically recommend.’

– Daily Mail

‘…(a) fascinating and often poignant memoir.’

– Daily Express & Daily Mirror

‘The book, too, grows more confident in talking about serious subjects as it progresses and it’s the honesty and openness that he allows in Gone Fishing that make And Away… , by the end, an unexpectedly moving read’

– The Observer

‘A glorious collection of stories from an extraordinary life. Once you put it down, you may get the immediate urge to pick it up again. Yes, you couldn’t let it lie.’

– Yorkshire Magazine

‘Bob Mortimer is pretty much established as a national treasure…So it's great to hear his story of how he got there first-hand…In the end he has become loved for being himself. And maybe that's the best type of success of all.’

– Beyond the Joke

‘Bob’s recent reinvention via the … Gone Fishing series means a whole new audience might indeed be surprised at how many different things he’s done and will particularly admire the non-showbiz route to stardom in our age of driven but ultimately vacuous and content-free superstars.’

– Yorkshire Bylines

‘It’s a precarious world, but And Away... is a heartfelt testament to the magic of finding your happy place within it.’

– The Sunday Times

‘(a) touching, funny autobiography.'

‘(a) comic masterpiece of a memoir: melancholically amusing, warm and witty’

– Strong Words

‘Filled with anecdotes from Mortimer’s life, And Away… contrasts humour with a deeper contemplation of life following his open-heart surgery’

– Radio Times

‘…deftly combines all the varied aspects of Mortimer’s eventful, fascinating life and paints a fully three-dimensional picture of this much-loved figure’

‘…it’s everything you would want from the man who is the highlight of every show you see him on’

– The Independent

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Bob Mortimer Bob Mortimer was born May 23, 1959 in Middlesbrough, England. He grew up with three brothers in the town’s Linthorpe area. His dad, a biscuit salesman, died in a car wreck, when Bob was just seven. At around this same time, Bob burnt his family’s home down by accident with a stray firework.

He went to King’s Manor School in Middlesbrough, where his schoolmates included Ali Brownlee (a future sports presenter). He had trials for local team Middlesbrough FC, as he’s a keen football fan, however abandoned his dreams of footballing because of early onset rheumatoid arthritis. This gives him great pain when he gets stressed, particularly just before embarking on a tour or making a television series. On these occasions, he will control it with steroids.

Bob left school with three A-Levels and would go on to study law at the University of Sussex and the University of Leicester. While there, he got involved with political causes and the punk movement, even starting a group called Dog Dirt.

After he left university with an LLM in Welfare Law, he moved to London and became a solicitor for Southwark Council. Then he moved to private practice in Peckham, where his work with Public Health Act cases regarding cockroach infestations of council properties led to the South London Press (a local paper) calling him “The Cockroach King”. At this time, he was mugged by a client, who stopped and apologized after he was recognized him. Bob continued to represent his client.

Bob went to Goldsmith’s Tavern in New Cross, London in 1986, so that he could see this new show by Vic Reeves, a comedian. He was impressed by the performance, especially the character Tappy Lappy, which was Reeves trying to tap dance as he wore a Bryan Ferry mask and planks on his feet. Bob approached Vic after the show, and the two started writing material for the following week’s show together.

They became good friends and started a band together, called the Potter’s Wheel. Bob started performing on the show as well, which was christened as “Vic Reeves Big Night Out”, creating characters like Graham Lister, the Singing Lawyer, the Man With the Stick, and Judge Nutmeg.

Their show got successful in South London and would eventually outgrow Goldsmith’s Tavern, moving in the year 1988 to the Albany Empire in Deptford. Bob quickly became an integral part of the performance, providing him a weekly break from his legal work, which by that point had started to disillusion him.

They made their television debut on “One Hour with Jonathan Ross”, a short lived comedy chat show, in the game segment called “Knock down ginger”. Later that same year, the duo made “Vic Reeves Big Night Out”, their first TV pilot together. This show stayed true to the nightclub act’s variety show format. Bob took a 10 week break from his legal job to record this series and he never returned.

In October of 2015, he had triple bypass surgery, which meant the first leg of the Reeves and Mortimer 25 years tour had to be canceled. The first day he was admitted to the hospital, he married his girlfriend of 22 years, Lisa Matthews, under this special marriage license express from London. They have two sons together, named Tom and Harry.

He’s a lifelong fan of Free (a rock band) and Middlesbrough FC (his hometown soccer team). During his appearance on Desert Island Discs, he revealed that he dealt with his crippling shyness up until the age of 30, which just started improving after his initial TV success. He also reflected a bit on how his dad’s early death shaped his personality, despite not realizing exactly how much this event had affected him while he was a child.

Reeves and Mortimer were listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy in 2003. They were voted 9th comedy act of all time in a 2005 poll to find the Comedians’ Comedian, which was voted on by comedy insiders and fellow comedians.

“The Satsuma Complex” is the first stand alone novel and was released in 2022. Gary is a 30 year old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. Describing Gary as anonymous would be rather unfair yet to notice him other than just in passing would be a rarity. He did make this connection with a girl, however this blew up in his face and smacked his ass with a fish slice.

Gary Thorn goes in for a pint with Brendan, a work acquaintance. Once Brendan leaves early, Gary meets this girl in the pub. He does not get her name, yet he still falls for her just the same. Once she vanishes without saying goodbye all of a sudden, all that he has to remember her by is the book that she was reading, this book called “The Satsuma Complex”. However once Brendan goes missing as well, then it’s time for Gary to track down the girl that he is now calling Satsuma to get some answers.

So starts Gary’s quest through the pie shops and estates of South London, all to finally bring a bit of excitement and love into his unremarkable life.

This is a page turning story with a cast of unforgettable characters, and is the brilliantly funny debut novel from Bob Mortimer, comedian and bestselling author.

It’s a fun and funny mystery that got some readers to giggle out loud at various points and the mystery was pretty well organized. Fans of the novel enjoyed reading Gary’s story, and Gary himself since he is very Bob-like, with a few tweaks.

The writing style is very reminiscent of how Bob will tell a story: sharp and short sentences which set the scene nicely without any kind of fluffery at all. It’s funny in the right places and proves that Bob is just a natural storyteller, with how he tells this story in his unique manner with ever so slightly skewed reasoning with an odd cheeky extra observation tossed in to knock you a bit off kilter.

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‘The most life-affirming, joyful read of the year’ - Sunday Times

‘Winningly heartfelt’ – The Guardian

‘A triumph’ – Daily Mail

About The Author

Bob Mortimer was born in Middlesbrough in 1959, the youngest of four sons. He trained as a solicitor before a chance encounter with Vic Reeves in the 1980s led to a successful career in comedy as half of duo Reeves and Mortimer. His screen credits include Shooting Stars, Big Night Out, Catterick and most recently BBC2's Gone Fishing . His memoir, And Away… , published in 2021. It became the bestselling memoir of the year, was named Times and Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for Non-fiction Book of the Year at the National Book Awards. The Satsuma Complex is his first novel. He's on Twitter and Instagram as @RealBobMortimer.

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• Publisher: Gallery UK (May 26, 2022)
• Length: 352 pages
• ISBN13: 9781398505322

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‘It’s probably fairer to say that since his brush with mortality, Mortimer has come into his own. There is this book, which is a triumph… And Away is as good a celebrity autobiography as you could hope to read, and enthusiastically recommend.’

– Daily Mail

‘…(a) fascinating and often poignant memoir.’

– Daily Express & Daily Mirror

‘The book, too, grows more confident in talking about serious subjects as it progresses and it’s the honesty and openness that he allows in Gone Fishing that make And Away… , by the end, an unexpectedly moving read’

– The Observer

‘A glorious collection of stories from an extraordinary life. Once you put it down, you may get the immediate urge to pick it up again. Yes, you couldn’t let it lie.’

– Yorkshire Magazine

‘Bob Mortimer is pretty much established as a national treasure…So it's great to hear his story of how he got there first-hand…In the end he has become loved for being himself. And maybe that's the best type of success of all.’

– Beyond the Joke

‘Bob’s recent reinvention via the … Gone Fishing series means a whole new audience might indeed be surprised at how many different things he’s done and will particularly admire the non-showbiz route to stardom in our age of driven but ultimately vacuous and content-free superstars.’

– Yorkshire Bylines

‘It’s a precarious world, but And Away... is a heartfelt testament to the magic of finding your happy place within it.’

– The Sunday Times

‘(a) touching, funny autobiography.'

‘(a) comic masterpiece of a memoir: melancholically amusing, warm and witty’

– Strong Words

‘Filled with anecdotes from Mortimer’s life, And Away… contrasts humour with a deeper contemplation of life following his open-heart surgery’

– Radio Times

‘…deftly combines all the varied aspects of Mortimer’s eventful, fascinating life and paints a fully three-dimensional picture of this much-loved figure’

‘…it’s everything you would want from the man who is the highlight of every show you see him on’

– The Independent

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• Print length 323 pages
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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1398505293
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