Новинки Мэтта Бомонта

A captivating literary portrait of the writers who explore the city at night, and the people they met.

“Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night,” wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today – home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew Beaumont recounts an alternative history of London by focusing on those of its denizens who surface on the streets when the sun’s down. If nightwalking is a matter of “going astray” in the streets of the metropolis after dark, then nightwalkers represent some of the most suggestive and revealing guides to the neglected and forgotten aspects of the city.

In this brilliant work of literary investigation, Beaumont shines a light on the shadowy perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers: Chaucer and Shakespeare; William Blake and his ecstatic peregrinations and the feverish ramblings of opium addict Thomas De Quincey; and, among the lamp-lit literary throng, the supreme nightwalker Charles Dickens. We discover how the nocturnal city has inspired some and served as a balm or narcotic to others. In each case, the city is revealed as a place divided between work and pleasure, the affluent and the indigent, where the entitled and the desperate jostle in the streets.

With a foreword and afterword by Will Self, Nightwalking is a captivating literary portrait of the writers who explore the city at night and the people they meet.

В один миг жизнь Марри Колина из самой что ни на есть серой рутины превращается в умопомрачительный экстрим. Классический "офисный планктон", смиренный клерк из рекламной фирмы режет правду-матку на работе, бесстрашно балуется наркотой, одалживает крупные денежные суммы у людей с пистолетами... А впрочем, сколько ему осталось, три-четыре месяца? Когда приговор врачей беспощаден и не подлежит обжалованию, здравый смысл советует: надо махнуть на все рукой и хорошенько оттянуться напоследок! Достучаться до небес! Но отчего же вдруг Марри все бросает и пускается в бега? Неужели такой крошечный остаток жизни стоит того, чтобы его спасать?

Эпистолярный жанр на всех парах ворвался в информационный век стараниями блистательного Мэтта Бомонта. Оглушительный успех его книги объясняется просто: очень многие из нас уже не в силах представить себе, как можно жить без повседневной переписки. И мелкая офисная сошка, и всесильные боссы привыкли доверять свои секреты коварному "мылу" - не задумываясь о том, каким вулканом страстей, интриг и противоречий способна обернуться корпоративная электронная почта.

Out of the ashes of doomed ad agency Miller Shanks has risen Meerkat 360, a very 21st century workplace. Staff include David Crutton, an MD with the worst email signature in history; Milton Keane, a definitely-straight PA with a yearning for reality tv fame; Liam O'Keefe, a creative with an online gambling addiction who may be linked with the contents of the stationery cupboard appearing on eBay; and, Harvey Harvey, a creative who politely replies to pornographic spam and who might just have met his future wife online - a rich Nigerian princess in deep trouble...Told entirely via emails, texts, webchat and blogs, the long-awaited follow up to "E" is a hilariously funny insight into the hearts, minds and inboxes of the world's most engagingly dysfunctional ad agency.

Два великих до неприличия актерских таланта. Модный до отвращения режиссер. Классный до тошноты сценарий. А какие костюмы! А какие пьянки! Голливуд? Черта с два! Современное "независимое кино" - в полной красе!

Два великих до неприличия актерских таланта. Модный до отвращения режиссер. Классный до тошноты сценарий. А какие костюмы! А какие пьянки! Голливуд? Черта с два! Современное "независимое кино" - в полной красе! Какая разница с "продажным", "коммерческим" кино? Поменьше денег… Побольше проблем… И жизнь -повеселее!

Два великих до неприличия актерских таланта. Модный до отвращения режиссер. Классный до тошноты сценарий. А какие костюмы! А какие пьянки! Голливуд? Черта с два! Современное "независимое кино" - в полной красе!

The Miller Shanks Christmas party is going to be the best and most impressive ever -- or at least, that's the plan. It certainly turns out to be unforgettable... Once again told entirely in a series of e-mails, the further adventures of the characters from e take them into the run-up to Christmas. Harriet's determined to make her first party as MD mega-memorable, but even her much-tested imagination can't predict what actually happens. Meanwhile, Pinki wants to change the world by introducing Real Women Barbies and Simon has resurfaced to write a novel -- which is rejected by a publishing director known to many of us...

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

Carla Browne-1/5/00, 3:05 pm
to: All Departments
re: I'm leaving now . . . but before I go there are some things you should know . . . !!!!

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.

Rachel Stevenson, Personnel-1/5/00, 3:09 pm
to: Chandra Kapoor cc: David Crutton
re: Urgent: Please delete Carla Browne's ID from e-mail with immediate effect. Thank you.

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.

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

From the bestelling author of ‘e’ comes a hilarious and moving novel of a very normal life becoming extraordinaryMurray’s living life to the full – and it might just kill him. He’s started telling the truth at work. He’s borrowed a stack of cash from a man with a gun, a speech impediment and no grasp whatsoever of APR. He’s also taking drugs and – God help him – he’s started dancing. Badly. To trance. And now he’s on the run with a human version of Muttley and a teenage girl called Fish.Which is strange, because a few weeks ago Murray didn’t even burn the candle at one end. But when his doctors tell him he has only months to live, he gives his boring old self the boot, relaunches a new, improved Murray and falls in love with a passion he didn’t know was in him.His old self, of course, would tell him he’s digging his own grave. But he’ll be needing one of those soon enough anyway, won’t he?