Product Description

Julian Mann - drunkard, womanizer, and television star - wants to surf on life, but his agent's dumped him, he has a huge tax bill, he's uncertain about his wife's fidelity, and he's also trying to avoid the manic attentions of a female fan. It seems yet more problems are about to burden him.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #214820 in Books
• Published on: 1996-09-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

About the Author
Julian Mann, the hard drinking, preening, and sexually provocative star of the TV sitcome Richard the Nerd, feels caught on the horns of a dilemma: should he be concentrating on his career, which is on the slide after an unseemly bout of fisticuffs at the BAFTA awards; or following his baser instincts and bedding every young girl in sight? His twin dreams of comic immortality and a penthouse flat full of booze and young models seem to be frustrated by his wife and children; by Tom, his wife's best friend from university days, a pretentious 'National Theatre Player' who appears to be competing with Julian on the small sreen and in the bedroom; by the tax man, who's chasing him for sixty thousand pounds; and by Lillith, a psychotic fan, and member of a strange Herculean cult whose eight-year cycle of death and regeneration might augur Julian's imminent nemesis...

Customer Reviews

More amusement from Ade...
I personnally think this book is one of the best thing's i've read.

It may not be to a lot of people's tastes, but if you like the sort of humour that Adrian is into, then it's for you.

I thought the storyline was brilliant, and it keeps you guessing, difficult to see what's coming next. Great twist at the end, which you don't really expect from the beginning.

It's not an intellectually challenging book, but why should it be?

a must for all Ade fans, and especially fans of his character 'Eddie'...

Good first effort
I thought that the book was terribly easy to get into, which is always a sign that the writer characterises well. I also thought that the story panned out nicely. People should take this book for what it is - a good, non thought provoking book.

amazing book
I found this book highly amusing and was laughing all the way through. Julian Mann is a great character, who is arrogent, yet lovable.

not giving away the storyline, it's one where you don't really know what is going to happen in the end, and are quite surprised by it all.

some good twists, and lots of comedy.

loved every page of it, and will read it again!