Bob Mortimer: 'I wanted to write like Murakami but soon realised I didn't have the talent'
The comedian and author on defacing Rudyard Kipling, being inspired by Spike Milligan and cherishing Jerome K Jerome My earliest reading memoryWhen I was in junior school I used to read every night in bed before going to sleep. I had a little bookcase in my bedroom that I filled with the Biggles adventures by WE Johns and Agatha Christie novels. My mum was happy to buy me books. She always said that a house without b…