In Alex Finean-Liang's ''Blue Eyes in Green Park', young Kyle's obsession with toilet sex leads him to stalk the elegant Mr Blue Eyes.
If you like your fiction fast, young and hardcore, then you should find something to

savour in this collection. Rose de Freitas
Paperback, £9.95, ISBN 190285238-9

All families are psychotic writes Douglas Coupland. Of course they are.
This is a great book by any standards. Highly comic. Engaging and moving when it comes to the insanities of family life. What makes the book especially worth a mention here is how it deals with HIV.
The Drummonds are typical of many modern fractured families. Except that most of them are HIV positive. Although Coupland uses

the virus and illness as a metaphor for familial dysfunction and damage, it is also one of the most realistic portraits of people living with HIV I have read. There's no maukish sympathy. Individuals are portrayed as imperfect people dealing with the disease as it comes; just another one of life's problems and not the focus of entire lives. I don't know if Coupland is positive himself, but he has a real understanding.

Throw in baby-selling, an eccentric pharmaceutical baron and an impending