The Gobbler: Adrian Edmondson

Starring in the cult series The Young Ones, The Comic Strip Presents and Bottom, Edmondson give us his first novel. Julian Mann, the hard drinking, preening and sexually provocative star of the TV sitcom Richard the Nerd is in a quandary. Should he concentrate on his career, which is on a slide after an unseemly bout of fisticuffs at the BAFTA awards; or follow his baser instincts and bed every young girl in sight? His twin dreams of comic immortality and a penthouse full of booze and young models seem to be thwarted by his wife and children; by Tom, his wife's best friend from University days, a pretentious National Theatre player who's competing with Julian on the small screen and in the bedroom; by the tax man, who's chasing him for sixty thousand pounds; and by Lilith, a psychotic fan and member of a Herculean cult whose eight-year cycle of death and regeneration might auger Julian's imminent nemesis...