Bob Mortimer has written his first novel and it will be published later this year. It is called The Satsuma Complex.

The Simon & Schuster imprint Gallery Books will publish the novel on 27th October. As well as a hardback and e-book there will be an audiobook narrated by Mortimer.

The synopsis says: 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. I did make a good connection with a girl, but that blew up in my face and smacked my arse with a fish slice."

"Gary Thorn goes for a pint with a work acquaintance called Brendan. When Brendan leaves early, Gary meets a girl in the pub. He doesn’t catch her name, but falls for her anyway. When she suddenly disappears without saying goodbye, all Gary has to remember her by is the book she was reading: The Satsuma Complex. But when Brendan goes missing, Gary needs to track down the girl he now calls Satsuma to get some answers. And so begins Gary’s quest, through the estates and pie shops of south London, to finally bring some love and excitement into his unremarkable life."