Name: And Away.
SKU: 54258677
Price: 9.22 EUR
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Author: Bob Mortimer
ISBN: 9781398505322

Type

Physical Book

Author

Bob Mortimer

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

352

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

130 x 197 x 25 (mm)

ISBN13

9781398505322

And Away.

Bob Mortimer (Author) · Simon and Schuster · Paperback

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Synopsis "And Away. "

Shortlisted for The British Book Awards 2022 Non-Fiction Narrative Book of the Year

The long-awaited first autobiography by national treasure Bob Mortimer.

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. The episode unnerved him, but forced him to reflect on his life so far. This is the framework for his hilarious and moving memoir, And Away...

Although his childhood in Middlesbrough was normal on the surface, it was tinged by the loss of his dad, and his own various misadventures (now infamous from his appearances on Would I Lie to You?), from burning down the family home to starting a short-lived punk band called Dog Dirt. As an adult, he trained as a solicitor and moved to London. Though he was doing pretty well (the South London Press once crowned him 'The Cockroach King' after a successful verdict), a chance encounter in a pub in the 1980s with a young comedian going by the name Vic Reeves set his life on a different track. And now, six years on, the heart condition that once threatened his career has instead led to new success on BBC2's Gone Fishing.

Warm, profound, and irrepressibly funny, And Away... is Bob's full life story (with a few lies thrown in for good measure.)

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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