Making Love: A Conspiracy Of The Heart

An ingenious comic thriller told by a distressed library book that has fallen in love with its reader.

'As a rule, if a book starts talking to you ... head for funny farm. While you're down there, you might meet Marius Brill, who has produced a book that does precisely that, one so entirely fantastical as to be quite scary ... An oddity to savour'

'Enjoyable comic tale enhanced by some genuine philosophical questions'

'Fantastic, hilarious ... verbal pyrotechnics, supported by a fecund imagination of the first order'

'An absurd, hilarious, spy-cum-action-cum-postmodern thriller, Making Love is incredibly clever without showing off, self-referential without being self-congratulatory, and a damn good read. Fantastic'

'An exceptional piece of writing...Making Love is as winning a first novel as I have read in a long time'

'A smorgasbord of romantic romp, pseudo-scholarship, urban melodrama and metafictional mystery'

'Yes! Yes! Yes!Utterly original and utterly charming'

MARIUS BRILL attended St John's College, Oxford, after a career as a doorman, journalist and prize-winning playwright at the Soho Theatre. The script of his film, DIARY OF A SURREAL KILLER, was nominated for a BAFTA Carl Foreman award. His comic radio series, sLaughter in the Dark, played to critical acclaim on Radio Four. MAKING LOVE: A CONSPIRACY OF THE HEART is his first book.

He was out of her league. She was out of her depth. 
 
When Miranda, the Miss Lonely Hearts of Shepherd's Bush, suddenly finds herself romanced by a tall, dark and deadly spy, she finds her life turned upside down. Could it have anything to do with the book she innocently took from the library, a book with a conspiracy theory about 'love' so devastating that every other copy has been destroyed by MI5 and the writer 'disappeared'? 
 
Spliced through Miranda's romantic adventure are pages from the 'lost' book itself. But the loudest voice in this piece of postmodern madness belongs to the lovelorn book itself, a sentient mass of paper and ink that cannot help falling in love with its reader. 
 
Marius Brill's send-up of po-faced conspiracy stories, spy thrillers and pulp romance is as sharp as Tom Sharpe - imagine Umberto Ecco with a sense of humour. Ludicrously logical and finely spun, this is hare-brained literary fantasy, an erudite romp, and above all, a novel to fall in love with ...

Marius Brill

Fantastic, hilarious... verbal pyrotechnics, supported by a fecund imagination of the first order

How to Forget is a genuinely funny romp through some of the darker areas of the human mind and some of the more life-threatening areas of mentalism and magic. An engaging and good-hearted read

A smorgasbord of romantic romp, pseudo-scholarship, urban melodrama and metafictional mystery

Highly entertaining yet intelligent comic novel...Brill's sense of fun is evident on every page

An absurd, hilarious, spy-cum-action-cum-postmodern thriller, it is incredibly clever without showing off, self-referential without being self-congratulatory, and a damn good read. Fantastic

Praise for Making Love, A Conspiracy of the Heart: An exceptional piece of writing... as winning a first novel as I have read in a long time

Do you hold on to your memories? Or do they hold on to you? 
 
Magicov the Magnificent, grand illusionist, earns his living entertaining the geriatrics of Lotus House Care Home. But Mr Magicov (also known as Peter) envies them - they've mastered a trick that eludes him. They can forget. 
 
Peter yearns to forget. But memories haunt him: the shameful moment an eight-year-old wrecked his life; the FBI agent who hunted him like a dog; that suitcase stuffed with a million pounds. More than anything Peter wants to forget Kate, the expert con woman. The one he loved and left. 
 
For renowned bain-scientist Dr Chris Tavasligh, Peter's craving to escape makes him the perfect candidate for a bold experiment in changing minds - forever. Faced with such an opportunity, will Peter go through with it? And if he does, who will he become?

Marius Brill

Praise for How to Forget

Fantastic, hilarious... verbal pyrotechnics, supported by a fecund imagination of the first order

How to Forget is a genuinely funny romp through some of the darker areas of the human mind and some of the more life-threatening areas of mentalism and magic. An engaging and good-hearted read

A smorgasbord of romantic romp, pseudo-scholarship, urban melodrama and metafictional mystery

Fantastic, hilarious... verbal pyrotechnics, supported by a fecund imagination of the first order

How to Forget is a genuinely funny romp through some of the darker areas of the human mind and some of the more life-threatening areas of mentalism and magic. An engaging and good-hearted read

A smorgasbord of romantic romp, pseudo-scholarship, urban melodrama and metafictional mystery

Fantastic, hilarious... verbal pyrotechnics, supported by a fecund imagination of the first order

How to Forget is a genuinely funny romp through some of the darker areas of the human mind and some of the more life-threatening areas of mentalism and magic. An engaging and good-hearted read

A smorgasbord of romantic romp, pseudo-scholarship, urban melodrama and metafictional mystery

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