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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...

An unforgettable first novel.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.

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! Какая разница с "продажным", "коммерческим" кино? Поменьше денег… Побольше проблем… И жизнь -повеселее!

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.

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.

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?