E A NOVEL

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.