Bob Mortimer Collection

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.