What a feast of corporate mayhem this one is.

Told only through email messages between employees in a marketing firm, this was a laugh-out-loud book for me.

The characters a mainly painted in black & white & many of them have scaled to the heights of incompetence. But you'll howl as you read between the lines of what happens in the office. The IT problem is a scream!

I loved this book!

Here's the synopsis from amazon.co.uk:
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.

How did I end up with 4 books from meetup? I have no self-control...

This was my relaxing, non-thinking, in-bed read... It did make me giggle and it was great to see the bad guys get their comeupance in the end.

Not sure what I'll do with this one yet.

RELEASE NOTES:

Plan to release at June meetup @ the Arthouse Hotel (boo hiss!).

Picked up at the gathering last night.

I really enjoyed this. A great bit of fun where the baddies get their comeuppance in the end.

Off MtTBR Challenge.

Most amusing - found it hard to put down. Unusual format (emails) but very readable.

This brilliant book is now available to all and sundry.

RELEASE NOTES:

I remembered RockDg9 selecting this book in one of my RABCK draws, so even when you don't win you win. Enjoy!

Thanks so much for this one catsalive!

e. is a hilarious book! I was a bit wary of the email format, but it really worked. Sarcasm is hard to get right in the written word, but Beaumont sure has a talent for capturing the passive-aggressiveness of everyday life in an office. Nigel the guy in accounts was my absolute favourite character.

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

To livrecache via the OZVBB.

I'd not heard of this book, but it sounds great, Thanks so much for offering it to the Oz VBB, RockDg9.

This was fun, light reading. Both Mr Livrecache and I enjoyed it. Anyone who has worked in the corporate world will recognise aspects of it.