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It was funny in the right places, but I think could have been injected with a little more (it was also particularly Bob-humour as well, which was well received). I really enjoyed the section of the book that explained how he got into comedy and his long, successful partnership with Vic Reeves. Strangely enough I don’t particularly like the comedy programmes he appears in with Vic Reeves but find him laugh out loud funny both in print and when he appears on ‘Would I Lie to you’ where he reminisces about his past. There’s a bit of a mystery, a bit of romance, and a bunch of insight in human beings and their behaviour. In the process of tracking the woman he comes to dub Satsuma, Gary finds himself stumbling his way into the midst of what appears to be a crime ring.

Gary Thorn is in the middle of investigating a serious criminal case in south London involving police corruption, domestic violence, possibly even murder, when he stops in the street to speak to a passing squirrel. With his status as national treasure assured, Bob Mortimer can expect a lot of goodwill for his debut novel, an amiable crime thriller. In addition, my husband and I met while working at the Riverside, so you could say it holds a special place in my heart.In April 2010, Mortimer appeared on the Sky1 panel show A League of Their Own, on Andrew Flintoff's team. I mean, if you don’t have tears in your eyes from laughing when Bob claims that he does his own dentistry, then you’re doing it wrong. Mortimer began to perform on the show, which was christened Vic Reeves Big Night Out, creating such characters as the Singing Lawyer, Graham Lister, Judge Nutmeg and the Man With the Stick. Your enjoyment will largely depend on your view of the main character, Gary, whose quirkily comedic observations will amuse or irritate, according to taste.

On the day of his hospital admission, he married Lisa Matthews, his girlfriend of 22 years, under a special marriage licence express from London. Update now that I read it: Of course it was very funny but also warm and Im glad we had a mention of the legendary Gary Cheeseman "snipers dream" (top tier joke) and other familiar tales. I love listening to his tales on Would I Lie To You; enjoy watching him buffoon about on Gone Fishing and gurgle with delight at his impressions on Athletico Mince.It was well paced, following the chronology of Mortimer's life and career but had a great balance between significant and impacting events and/or people and the mundane, which built context and added colour. Intrigue, tension, memorable characters and shipboard life depicted in all its reeking authenticity add up to a truly gripping read. Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a heart condition that required immediate surgery and forced him to cancel an upcoming tour. Mortimer appeared on BBC Two's Never Mind the Buzzcocks on four occasions – in 1996, on Sean Hughes' team; in 2000, on Phill Jupitus's team; in 2008, as a guest team captain; and in 2012, as a guest host. It rips along at a decent clip and, even though O’Porter now lives in Los Angeles, does a very good job of depicting the empty aspirational scuzz of the London creative scene.

History is being rewritten, too, and the Orwellian Ministry of Culture subjects people to mind-control techniques such as unlearning. 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.I'd often wondered how Bob got together with Vic and it's an extraordinary tale of happenstance that hinges on the confluence of a number of unlikely events and which culminated in a chance meeting in a south London pub in 1988. Wallis, who is miserable, paranoid and desperate for the liberty that only America can provide, claims to have a secret document which will bring down the Protectorate, and asks Rose to recover it from its hiding place … Brilliantly imagined and thoroughly chilling, this is a counterfactual tour de force.

This was a book that I was looking forward to all year and inhaled when the magical publishing time arrived, still wanting to savour every moment.

The storyline was pretty much your average crime caper, nothing exemplary or outstanding, but a plot to follow and characters to learn more about: a very quick read and that's what I prefer when it comes to the crime genre. I can imagine someone trying to turn it into a TV series with a CGI squirrel and I think it’d do really well. Kingsolver’s raw and empathetic writing make this a gripping and vital tale for our times too, passionately tackling Big Pharma, healthcare, addiction, education and poverty. Nevertheless, marooned like desert islands in an endless ocean of guff, there is a smattering of truly sumptuous passages of writing. Mortimer was impressed by the performance, particularly the character Tappy Lappy, which was Reeves attempting to tap dance while wearing a Bryan Ferry mask and planks on his feet.