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S&S UK announces Bob Mortimer’s sequel to The Satsuma Complex, coming August 2024
Gallery Books UK has revealed details of Bob Mortimer’s new novel, The Hotel Avocado, due in August 2024.
Mortimer’s second novel is a sequel to his bestselling début The Satsuma Complex, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction last year.
Holly Harris, publishing director at the Simon & Schuster UK imprint, acquired world rights from Caroline Chignell at PBJ Management. It will be published on 29th August 2024 in hardback, e-book and audio, read by Mortimer, alongside “an unmissable marketing and publicity campaign,” Gallery Books said. Special editions will be available for independent booksellers, and signed copies available to pre-order via Waterstones and W H Smith.
Mortimer said: “I missed Gary, Emily and Grace so much that I decided to write the next chapter in their adventures. Gary is slighter braver, Emily well out of her depth and Grace as stubborn and rude as ever. Together they might succeed, but separated they stand to fall. I wish them all the best and if you ever bump into them please feel free to buy them a slice of Battenberg.”
Harris said: “Bob has written another brilliant book and we cannot wait to publish it. The Hotel Avocado is as funny and thrilling as The Satsuma Complex, and readers are going to love it.”
The synopsis reads: “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.
“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.”
Combined sales of Mortimer’s memoir And Away… and his début novel The Satsuma Complex (both published by S&S UK) have now surpassed 1.1 million copies for £9.9m through Nielsen BookScan. The two books were shortlisted for The British Book Awards, in Non-Fiction Narrative Book of the Year 2022 and Début Fiction Book of the Year 2023 categories respectively.
