marius brill
Though Making
Love has no author,
a name was needed for the cover to allay suspicion.
Marius Brill wasn't using his name for anything particularly
interesting and so has kindly agreed to lend it. If you want
to know how he's been
wasting his life, a brief CV follows:
He began
a career in journalism at The
Evening Standard in 1985, becoming their first photo-journalist.
He went on to write for several national newspapers before
giving up and going to Oxford as a mature student. His
last jobs in the
press
were at the Sunday Times and a stint as the Sunday
Express science editor.
Other moments he might have capitalized on but failed
to include: at 19 his first play ‘Frikzhan’,
won the 1985 National Youth Theatre/Texaco Most Promising
Playwright
Award; his radio play ‘sLaughter In The
Dark’ won
the 1991 BBC Young Writers Festival and he wrote the
subsequent popular comedy series for Radio 4 broadcast
in 1995;
the script
for his short film, ‘Diary of a Surreal
Killer’ starring Paula Hamilton and A.A.Gill
was nominated for the 1997 BAFTA Carl Foreman Award.
He has written a number of television documentaries – which
have included the award winning BBC/A&E series ‘Prohibition’.
Making Love is his first novel.