The Hotel Avocado

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. All Gary wants is a happy life. But he also wants to be alive to enjoy it… THE HILARIOUS AND GRIPPING NEW NOVEL BY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR BOB MORTIMER

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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 the duo Reeves and Mortimer. His screen credits include Shooting Stars, Big Night Out, Catterick *and most recently BBC Two's *Gone Fishing. 

His memoir, And Away..., published in 2021, became the bestselling memoir of the year, was named *The 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, *his first novel, was published in 2022. It was an instant *Sunday Times *bestseller and won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction in 2023. 

He's on Twitter and Instagram as @RealBobMortimer.