Matt Beaumont Books In Order

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A fast-paced, wickedly funny tale of office back-stabbing and corporate intrigue that unfolds in a succession of escalating e-mails.

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re: I’m leaving now…
but before I go there are some things you should know…
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Set in a London ad agency desperate to land a coveted big account, e follows the bureaucratic bungling, cutthroat maneuvers, and outrageous sexual antics of a group of Miller-Shanks employees as they scheme, lie, lust, and claw their way up and down the company ladder.

Written by a former advertising copywriter, this hilarious, dead-on-target novel marks the debut of a hip and exciting new voice in contemporary fiction. With the click of a mouse, Matt Beaumont brings the novel of letters into the twenty-first century, turning his merciless, unerring eye on today’s Machiavellian corporate culture-with uproarious results.

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The Book, the Film, the T-shirt

One week in the making of a TV commercial for car tyres as told by the inimitable Matt Beaumont, author of e What does a successful adman do when he realises the stars of his new commercial want to kill each other, his director has walked off the set and his client has turned up in the wrong T shirt? How does one of these stars react when he’s asked if it’s true that he’s packing salami in his shorts? Why on earth does the other one think that dueting with a Chinese Elvis impersonator could be a smart career move? What does the adman’s pregnant, swollen ankled wife do when she realises the cheating bast*ard just happens to be shooting an ad with a rubber clad Hollywood nymph? And how could any of the above possibly have a connection to the world’s most useless drug smuggler?

Staying Alive

From the bestelling author of ‘e’ comes a hilarious novel of a very normal life becoming extraordinary Murray’s life is on the duller side of normal. His once scintillating career has run into a dead end. His crusading girlfriend has left him for a hotshot lawyer. While he likes things safe and tidy, he dreams of more, getting in touch with his inner Jimi Hendrix. But finding a lump and discovering he has four months to live isn’t what he had in mind. What would you do? Murray, to his great astonishment, is soon living with a burglar, mixing with supermodels, charged with murder and in massive debt to slipper wearing gangsters. And he’s finally said what he thinks in a meeting. So who cares? He’s living life to the full. But what if it’s all a mistake and he has to face the consequences…

E Squared

Hijinks galore among the deliriously funny ad men and women in this electronic epistolary novel e’s wickedly hilarious crew from the Miller Shanks Ad Agency is back with more office shenanigans. The staff has moved on to Meerkat360, a sleek and self consciously hip boutique agency, where they are joined by a fresh cast of industrial strength nutjobs. Through e mails, texts, and blog entries they pitch ad campaigns Est e Lauder’s new Margaret Thatcher perfume, anyone? mangle love lives, and barely navigate office and family politics. Armed with the acid wit of e upgraded with the full arsenal of modern cyber tools, e2 leaves you rolling on your cubicle floor and snorting vile vending machine coffee out of your nostrils.