Making Love - A Conspiracy Of The Heart Marius Brill Doubleday, £12.99

As a rule, if a book starts talking to you - "I don't like the corners of my pages turned down" - head for the 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. Ostensibly, it's a love story about a girl who is romanced by a mysterious spy. He latches on to her after she takes a book out of Shepherd's Bush Library, called Making Love which claims that "love" is a scam to subjugate the lumpenprole, a truth so dangerous that MI5 are on the case. Pages of the deadly tract are spliced tantalisingly throughout the novel, which is a hare-brained yarn but an oddity to savour.