Tosser

Eight floors up in a crumbling Bayswater flat, Richard - a misanthropic proofreader devoted to his kettle - wants only to be left alone. His flatmate Ollie, an earnest but hopelessly naïve publishing assistant, secretly invites disaster by publishing a deranged self-help manuscript from the slush pile.

The book: a Taoist sex-and-vegetables manifesto by Dr Rufus Mandrill, a disgraced osteopath, former bestseller, and spectacular boundary failure. When Richard pretends to be involved to impres...