Matthew Beaumont is a British novelist [1] and former copywriter.
Beaumont made his debut in 2000 with the comic novel, e. The Novel of Liars, Lunch and Lost Knickers , which consists entirely of e-mails composed by the staff of one advertising office. A recent example of an epistolary novel, it is generally recognised as one of the first e-mail novels. [2]
For the BBC, Beaumont created the storyline of the alternate reality game, Jamie Kane (2005). [3] [4]
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