 In 2016, Norton published his debut novel "Holding", published by Hodder & Stoughton, about a murder in an Irish rural community.Norton won Popular Fiction Book of the Year award for "Holding" in the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards 2016.On 7 March 2013, Norton broke the Guinness World Record for "Most Questions Asked on a TV Chat Show" on "Comic Relief's Big Chat", which raised £1.02 million.