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The Waterstones Round Up: November & December's Best Books
Posted on 26th October 2026 by Mark Skinner You may feel as though you've seen all the wondrous publishing that the year has to offer but no, as this crop of November and December's best books goes to prove. From compelling crime thrillers to superstar memoirs, make sure these terrific titles have a place on your Christmas list. Whatever Bob Mortimer tries his hand at turns to comedy gold, but for his latest novel the national treasure is aiming for something a little more serious.
Bob Mortimer - Michael
Bob Mortimer - Michael By Bob Mortimer A wise, funny and moving novel about growing up and finding your way, from multi-million-copy bestselling author Bob Mortimer. Michael has had a big life. A life of abundance and applause. But now he's dead (or at least he's pretty sure he is). He is given the chance to return - but it comes with a catch. He ends up back in a time he'd tried to forget. He and his mum have been forced to start again after his dad's death: new house, new school, no mates.
IFS Unlocked: The Melchester Odyssey - Part 267
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Street Chairmen
You know what's long, tedious and boring? Surgery. You know what isn't? This new podcast! Join Scrubs co-stars and real-life best friends Zach Braff and Donald Faison for a weekly comedy podcast where they relive the hit TV show, one episode at a time. Each week, these BFFs will discuss an episode of Scrubs, sharing behind-the-scenes stories and reminiscing on some of their favorite memories from filming. They’ll also connect with Scrubs super fans and feature beloved show cast members for e ...
Dad’s Pod Army
You know what's long, tedious and boring? Surgery. You know what isn't? This new podcast! Join Scrubs co-stars and real-life best friends Zach Braff and Donald Faison for a weekly comedy podcast where they relive the hit TV show, one episode at a time. Each week, these BFFs will discuss an episode of Scrubs, sharing behind-the-scenes stories and reminiscing on some of their favorite memories from filming. They’ll also connect with Scrubs super fans and feature beloved show cast members for e ...
IFS Unlocked: The Top Flight Time Machine Odyssey - Part 17
You know what's long, tedious and boring? Surgery. You know what isn't? This new podcast! Join Scrubs co-stars and real-life best friends Zach Braff and Donald Faison for a weekly comedy podcast where they relive the hit TV show, one episode at a time. Each week, these BFFs will discuss an episode of Scrubs, sharing behind-the-scenes stories and reminiscing on some of their favorite memories from filming. They’ll also connect with Scrubs super fans and feature beloved show cast members for e ...
Spectral Frequencies
You know what's long, tedious and boring? Surgery. You know what isn't? This new podcast! Join Scrubs co-stars and real-life best friends Zach Braff and Donald Faison for a weekly comedy podcast where they relive the hit TV show, one episode at a time. Each week, these BFFs will discuss an episode of Scrubs, sharing behind-the-scenes stories and reminiscing on some of their favorite memories from filming. They’ll also connect with Scrubs super fans and feature beloved show cast members for e ...
The Christmas TV Times 1985 - Part 5
You know what's long, tedious and boring? Surgery. You know what isn't? This new podcast! Join Scrubs co-stars and real-life best friends Zach Braff and Donald Faison for a weekly comedy podcast where they relive the hit TV show, one episode at a time. Each week, these BFFs will discuss an episode of Scrubs, sharing behind-the-scenes stories and reminiscing on some of their favorite memories from filming. They’ll also connect with Scrubs super fans and feature beloved show cast members for e ...
0073. Che Durena and Ian Lara
Ian Lara and Che Durena join Zac Amico and discuss preparing for the holidays, having senioritis, cheating while taking tests in school, Che explaining a white paradise and Agartha, Oz Pearlman the mentalist who guessed Joe Rogan's pin code, men who use pick-up artist techniques, after hours bars, the Philadelphia Flyers suspends their radio host for inappropriate speech on a hot mic, Zac's production crew trying to help a homeless man and it ending in disaster, low budget horror movies and...
The Christmas TV Times 1985 - Part 1
You know what's long, tedious and boring? Surgery. You know what isn't? This new podcast! Join Scrubs co-stars and real-life best friends Zach Braff and Donald Faison for a weekly comedy podcast where they relive the hit TV show, one episode at a time. Each week, these BFFs will discuss an episode of Scrubs, sharing behind-the-scenes stories and reminiscing on some of their favorite memories from filming. They’ll also connect with Scrubs super fans and feature beloved show cast members for e ...
TV Guidance Counselor Episode 719: Rick Katschke
August 27th - September 2, 1994 This week Ken welcomes wholesome, midwest superstar and host of the Catered Quiz Podcast Rick Katschke to the show.
The Funniest Books of the 21st Century
Here at Five Books, we love covering the shortlists for the annual Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. The judges are fantastic at flagging up new books with humorous elements—sometimes cosy, feel-good comedy and sometimes ‘serious’ literary fiction whose dark themes are offset by hilarious turns of phrase. There’s room for both in the well-kept library! This year, to celebrate the Wodehouse Prize’s 25th anniversary, they decided to offer an extra award to recognise the ‘winner of winners’.
IFS Unlocked: Top Flight Tune Machine - 5/10/1986 Part 1
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Medical Tablet Trauma
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0058. Na'im Ali and Dru Montana
Na'im Ali and Dru Montana join Zac Amico and discuss the Miss Panama mistake, Steve Harvey's hosting, the etiquette coach William Hanson and his ridiculous rules on eating food, Murder Dogs - the pitbull who killed a baby and so much more! Support our sponsors! YoKratom.com - Check out Yo Kratom (the home of the $60 kilo) for all your kratom needs! Zac Amico's Morning Zoo plug music can be found here:...
TFTM Gold: The Keegan Odyssey - Part 43
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IFS Unlocked: History Box - The 1922 Straw Hat Riots Part 1
You know what's long, tedious and boring? Surgery. You know what isn't? This new podcast! Join Scrubs co-stars and real-life best friends Zach Braff and Donald Faison for a weekly comedy podcast where they relive the hit TV show, one episode at a time. Each week, these BFFs will discuss an episode of Scrubs, sharing behind-the-scenes stories and reminiscing on some of their favorite memories from filming. They’ll also connect with Scrubs super fans and feature beloved show cast members for e ...
IFS Unlocked: The Melchester Odyssey - Part 253
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Boek | Long Shoe - Bob Mortimer
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TFTM Gold: The Keegan Odyssey - Part 39
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IFS Unlocked: Life Logistics - House Move Kitchen Removal
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A Triple Amputee's Journey
Following a devastating accident, Bob Mortimer found hope and purpose in Christ. After a long night of drinking at a local tavern, my brother and I headed toward home in Hoquiam, Washington. We didn’t get far before our car veered off the road and struck a utility pole. Uninjured, we stepped out to assess the damage — never noticing the downed power lines. As I walked through the darkness, my left arm brushed against one of the live wires.
Bob Mortimer - The Long Shoe
Bob Mortimer - The Long Shoe By Bob Mortimer Bathroom salesman Matt is at a crossroads. He has lost his job, he is about to be made homeless and his girlfriend has left him. He wants his luck to change and he wants things to go back to how they were. Out of the blue he is offered a job that comes with a free luxury apartment. He hopes this might be enough to tempt her back.
The Hotel Avocado by Bob Mortimer
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.
TFTM Gold: The Keane Odyssey - Part 2
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Connection Is a Song
Longlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize 'I love this book!' SARAH CRACKNELL, SAINT ETIENNE 'Poignant and wonderfully warm' CATHY NEWMAN, CHANNEL 4 NEWS 'Shows us how music has the power to change everything' JUDE ROGERS It is 1994. In a loft bedroom in North Yorkshire, fifteen-year-old Anna sits on the carpet immersed in the pages of , listening to cassette tapes that she keeps in a shoebox. She is dreaming of living inside the songs.
And away! BBC recommissions Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing for eighth series
The six-part series will reunite comedians Bob Mortimer (Vic Reeves Big Night Out) and Paul Whitehouse (The Death of Stalin) to explore more of Britain’s lakes, rivers and canals. Along the way, there’ll be the trademark blend of laughs and heartfelt discussion. This time round, the show will be even more personal. Each location has been chosen because it has a connection to Mortimer or Whitehouse’s life.
The Melchester Odyssey - Part 216
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The Hotel Avocado by Bob Mortimer
Signed Edition - a Standard Edition is also available 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.
The Melchester Odyssey - Part 212
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The Melchester Odyssey - Part 211
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The Pig Odyssey - Part 6
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History Box - Magic Alex Part 3
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Peanut Ad Dive
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The Melchester Odyssey - Part 208
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History Box - Sid James On Budgies Part 1
Three of Australia's most respected personalities, Ricki-Lee, Tim Blackwell and Joel Creasey, come together to bring a conversational cheekiness to the drive shift. Artist and broadcaster Ricki-Lee joins Tim & Joel as the newest addition to Australia’s renowned drive show, with a combination of the day's hot topics, the best of digital and online and their unique benchmarks and games. Featuring the segments that Nova listeners have grown to love including Monday’s Mailbag, The Wednesday Whee ...
2024 - Year Of Our Bodies
Three of Australia's most respected personalities, Ricki-Lee, Tim Blackwell and Joel Creasey, come together to bring a conversational cheekiness to the drive shift. Artist and broadcaster Ricki-Lee joins Tim & Joel as the newest addition to Australia’s renowned drive show, with a combination of the day's hot topics, the best of digital and online and their unique benchmarks and games. Featuring the segments that Nova listeners have grown to love including Monday’s Mailbag, The Wednesday Whee ...
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2021
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Bob Mortimer wins 2023 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction with The Satsuma Complex
In a year when laughing out loud and seeing the comical side of life seems more important than ever before, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2023 has been awarded to Bob Mortimer for his funny and clever debut novel The Satsuma Complex.
Bob Mortimer wins Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2023
Monday 20th November 2023, 8:07pm The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer has won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2023 "He has this strange ability to keep the reader on the very brink of guffawing for whole chapters at a time" Mortimer says: "I still have no idea if I can actually write but this award gives me fresh hope. Cheers!" Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2023. Bob Mortimer.
Bob Mortimer reveals his second novel is a mystery, The Long Shoe
ExclusiveSaturday 2nd September 2023, 8:50am by Jay Richardson Bob Mortimer has revealed that his second novel is called The Long Shoe, about a man who loses his wife The story is "about a bloke who's wife leaves him but maybe she's been taken, he's got to find out" Mortimer told The One Show. "On the way he utilises a very long shoe to solve the mystery" Meanwhile, Mortimer's debut novel, The Satsuma Complex, has been renamed The Clementine Complex for publication in the US Crackanory.
The Clementine Complex
Bob Mortimer, beloved comedian and #1 Sunday Times (London) bestselling author of the memoir And Away…, returns with a delightfully quirky mystery in the vein of Richard Osman and Nita Prose. Unremarkable legal assistant Gary Thorn goes for a pint with his coworker Brendan, unaware his life is about to change. There, Gary meets a beautiful woman, but she leaves before he catches her name. All he has to remember her by is the title of the book she was reading: The Clementine Complex.
Succession and Barry are both at their final chapter – can they possibly meet fans’ high expectations?
Naturally, the buildup to these finales has been full of rampant speculation about how they might end. (No preview episodes for either show have been given to critics, so we’re fumbling in the dark like everyone else). That speculation is understandable, because TV in the last 20 years has become unusually preoccupied with how things end. In 2023, sticking the landing has never been more important to the legacy of a show. One false move and you’re in How I Met Your Mother territory.
The Satsuma Complex
*WINNER OF THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION 2023* THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Funny, clever and sweet’– Sunday Times ‘The much loved comic proves adept at noirish fiction in a debut whose surrealist humour sets it apart’ – Observer My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To describe me as anonymous would be unfair but to notice me other than in passing would be a rarity.
The Glove - Studio POW
Written By: Bob Mortimer & Vic Reeves Starring: Bob Mortimer, Vic Reeves, Brian Cox, Gina McKee, Tony Way, Dan Renton Skinner The Glove is a comedy road movie about two best friends in search of a mythical training glove. Vic and Bob are childhood friends who own a junk shop together where they both work and live. Profits are down and with their futures in jeopardy, they approach their obnoxious landlord to explain their ‘rent’ problems.
The Satsuma Complex
Review by Chris H, Reviewer Last updated on 19 Nov 2022 Bob Mortimer is one of the great comic geniuses of our time. Last year’s And Away... was one of the best biographies of last year and on this evidence, his new novel which draws heavily on his 1980s pre-comedy legal career looks promising too. But it is impossible to tell from just two chapters. So who knows?
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Is This OK? by Harriet Gibsone
Harriet Gibsone Synopsis 'Persistently funny, ill-advisedly honest and deadly accurate' – Caitlin Moran 'This book is a delight - very real and very entertaining' – Bob Mortimer Music journalist and self-professed creep, Harriet Gibsone, lives in fear of her internet searches being leaked. Is This OK? is an outrageously funny and painfully honest account of trying to find connection in the age of the internet – from bad MSN boyfriends, to the tyranny of Instagram mumfluencers.
The Satsuma Complex
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The 2023 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction Shortlist Announced
In a year when responding to the world with humour has never seemed so vital, The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction has announced its shortlist of six titles in contention for this year’s award. The shortlist includes four men and two women, two debuts, three comedians, and a range of wonderful settings that stretch from Norfolk to India, via Ibiza and Brooklyn.
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