Мэтт Бомонт — библиография

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…

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…

Скромный сотрудник рекламной фирмы Марри Колин влез в долги и купил дорогое обручальное кольцо своей возлюбленной, но она ушла к другому мужчине, богатому и успешному. Затем у Колина обнаруживают рак и по прогнозам врачей жить ему остается три-четыре месяца. Понимая, что терять нечего, герой пускается во все тяжкие, чудит на работе, обзаводится новой подругой-бродяжкой, одалживает крупные денежные суммы у русских мафиози и прячется от них. Жизнь Колина в эти месяцы необычайно насыщенна и интересна, но все на свете когда-нибудь кончается.

Месяц из жизни лондонского филиала крупной рекламной компании «Миллер Шэнкс», рассказанный в письмах из электронной почты.

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…