The Hotel Avocado is a sequel to Mortimer’s 2023 novel The Satsuma Complex, also published as The Clementine Complex in the U.S. In that novel, 30-year-old Gary Thorn, a legal assistant and perpetual screw-up, gets involved in a police investigation of his co-worker’s death while also trying to track down an intriguing woman who ghosted him around the same time. It was a charming novel chock-full of Mortimer’s trademark brand of absurdist, off-handed humor. (For the uninitiated, Mortimer is a British comedy legend, and a […]

Bob Mortimer is a UK comedian whose panel-show appearances are legendary. His best work is on the show Would I Lie to You?, where the combination of his quick wit and utterly insane lifestyle make his preposterous tales impossible to assess for veracity. Listening to Mortimer unwind a real corker of a tale is a joy to behold, whether or not he’s telling the truth. Thus I was highly intrigued when I heard he had written a novel. The Satsuma Complex (published in the U.S. […]