The Long Shoe

Bob Mortimer

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Simon & Schuster
01 October 2025

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

THE BRAND-NEW BOOK FOR 2025 BY 2 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR BOB MORTIMER. Matt had been happily drifting through life – but recently, he lost his job as a bathroom salesman and the tenancy on his home is about to expire. To top it all off, he wakes up one day to find his partner Harriet has left him. He’s hoping for a change of luck when out of the blue he is offered a job that comes with a cheap luxury flat in Harriet’s favourite building, Satsuma Heights. He hopes this might be enough to tempt her back.

Is she just taking a break – or is something far more sinister occurring? What’s his new job really about? And could the purchase of a very long shoe improve his situation?

With the help of a Yorkshire gangster, a luxury bathtub, his cat Goodmonsun and a yoga guru, Matt sets out to find some answers to these questions. In the process, maybe he’ll find out more about what he wants . . . from his life.

Fuelled by beer, soft boiled eggs and loneliness, The Long Shoe is a tour de force and Bob Mortimer’s most thrilling adventure to date. Praise for Bob Mortimer: 'As a comedian, Bob Mortimer spins a shaggy-dog story like nobody else' The Guardian ‘The much loved comic proves adept at noirish fiction in a debut whose surrealist humour sets it apart’ – Observer

‘Mortimer’s verbal specificity and off-kilter humour will keep his fans chuckling’ The Times 'There is a sweetness to his worldview that makes his writing gently poignant... Like Spike Milligan, the only vintage comic whose fiction is still read, Mortimer has managed to use a novel as a vehicle for his distinctive comedic voice' The Telegraph

By: Bob Mortimer
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Export/Airside
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 20mm
ISBN: 9781398548053
ISBN 10: 1398548057
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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 duo Reeves and Mortimer. His screen credits include Shooting Stars, Big Night Out, Catterick and most recently BBC2's Gone Fishing. His memoir, And Away…, published in 2021. It became the bestselling memoir of the year and was named Times and Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year. His first novel, The Satsuma Complex, was published in 2022 and won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for Comic Fiction. The sequel, The Hotel Avocado, was an immediate number one bestseller on release in 2024. His books have now sold over 2 million copies. He's on Twitter and Instagram as @RealBobMortimer.