John Mortimer RIP

Over the weekend one of my favourite authors passed away, John Mortimer. He wrote the very popular Rumpole Of The Bailey series which the hugely successful television series was based on. He also wrote Titmuss Regained and Summer Of A Doormouse and many others I would recommend reading. His writing are full of humour and humanity, if a bit left-leaning, but very good fast reads. He was also a very accomplished barrister in England. He was part of the legal team that helped defend The Sex Pistols and Virgin in an obscenity trial and he successfully defended publishers John Calder and Marion Boyars in their 1968 appeal against their conviction for publishing Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn. You will be missed.