'BF' is more ambiguous, with 'Best Friend' unlikely after Susan Douglas has read through the antics of the heroine Susan Street. Perhaps 'F' is for something more typically Burchillian. Nothing, however, can explain why Random House paid Burchill £175,000 for the UK hardback rights to two novels, this being the first offering.

Patients often describe the need to tic as the mounting of inner tension, localized either to the body region where the tic is about to occur or throughout the body.

Jefferson Parish begins in the shallow waters of Lake Pontchartrain, wades ashore in Kenner and Metairie and stretches sixty miles south, across the Mississippi River, through a borderland of bayou-laced swampland and then over miles of marsh and coastal bays to two barrier islands for some surf-casting in the Gulf of Mexico.

"The timetable is then produced using a desktop publishing package with data inputted manually, and the files then sent to the editor, Chris Woodcock, for proof-reading and conversion to PDF format.