Funny Business Books

I bought this week at a second hand bookshop in Devon on a rainy afternoon and found it very funny. It focuses on the life of an egocentric Marketing Director and the relationship with Pandora, his Lifecoach. It pokes fun at the way corporate life works and how marketing people destroy the English language with their made-up words and stupid phrases. Doesn't do lifecoaching any favours either. Recommended.

A similar book that I enjoyed was Matt Beaumont's e . This was written several years ago, before Blackberries when we were just discovering the joys of email. Its focuses on the life of an advertising agency who are pitching for the Coca Cola account and the emails that fly between the people who work there. Really funny.

I can also highly recommend anything written by a friend of mine Guy Browning. He used to write a column called Office Politics, which became a book. All the characters seemed to be based on people we worked with at our old agency Added Value. Check out Weak at the Top, too.