Name: The Hotel Avocado
SKU: 64091113
Price: 452.00 TWD
Availability: InStock
Author: Bob Mortimer
ISBN: 9781398529656

Type

Physical Book

Author

Bob Mortimer

Publisher

Gallery Uk

Year

2025

Language

English

Pages

416

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8x13x2.5 cm

ISBN13

9781398529656

The Hotel Avocado

Bob Mortimer (Author) · Gallery Uk · Paperback

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Synopsis "The Hotel Avocado"

As a comedian, Bob Mortimer spins a shaggy-dog story like nobody else, and this is a rollicking old-school yarn' The Guardian Mortimers verbal specificity and off-kilter humour will keep his fans chuckling The Times WARNING - this book includes: heavy crimes, car journeys, dreadfulness, large fruits, romance, planning applications, and a lot of pie. 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, hed 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 Sweet and funny Closer A stunning sequel Its genuinely difficult to put this book down youll be entranced by Mortimers humour and obvious story-telling skills Press Association Characters are layered with carefully observed detail and a huge serving of hilarity Heat

Bob Mortimer

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Bob is known for his work with Vic Reeves as part of their iconic comedy duo 'Vic and Bob'. More recently, Bob is known for his fishing, on the acclaimed BBC Two program Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, which won multiple Broadcasting Press Guild awards and is currently filming its eighth commissioned series

Bob's debut book, And Away..., was published in 2021 to critical acclaim. In 2023, he followed up with his first novel, The Satsuma Complex, which remained on the Sunday Times bestseller list for more than six months and won the Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction.

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