An unforgettable first novel, an author to shout about, a campaign to ensure that everyone knows this is the funniest, sharpest read of the year.

Consisting entirely of staff emails, e spends a fortnight in the company of Miller Shanks, an advertising agency that scales dizzying peaks of incompetence. Among the cast are a CEO with an MBA from the Joseph Stalin School of Management, a Creative Director who is a genius, if only in his own head, designers and copywriters driven by breasts, beer or Bach Flower Remedies, and secretaries who drip honey and spit blood.

The novel is a tapestry of insincerity, backstabbing and bare-arsed bitchiness: that is to say, everyday office politics. Oh yes, and there is some work to be done too - the quest for advertising's Eldorado, the Coca-Cola account.

e is sleazy, scurrilous and scabrously funny. It also contains a first-class joke about the Pope and sound advice on the maintenance of industrial carpet tiles.

An unforgettable first novel, an author to shout about, a campaign to ensure that everyone knows this is the funniest, sharpest read of the year. / Innovative, unmissable campaign: email teasers to the trade and to advertising industry mini website to which they can subscribe postcards to go to key buyers / spoof job ads to work at Miller Shanks / widespread advertising / samplers / bookproofs -- get reading! / Competition: Ben Elton; Nick Hornby; Mike Gayle; Kathy Lette

About the Author

Matt Beaumont is a copywriter and has been fired by some of London's leading ad agencies. He lives in North London with his wife and two children.

Reviews

Praise for e
'A brilliantly plotted comic novel about life in an advertising agency, narrated entirely through office emails. It gives me more sense that literature is alive and kicking than anything else I've read in these millennial 12 months.' Humphrey Carpenter, Sunday Times Review of the Year

'Lively, viciously funny and about as switched on as a novel can be' Mirror

'Hilarious' Cosmopolitan

Book Information
ISBN 9780007100682
Author Matt Beaumont
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint HarperCollins
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Weight(grams) 250g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 22mm