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]

• e (2000)
• The e Before Christmas (2000)
• The Book, the Film, the T-shirt (2002)
• Staying Alive (2004)
• Where There's a Will (2007)
• Small World (2008)
• e Squared (2009)

• Carl Steadman's "Two Solitudes", a 1995 e-mail story
• List of contemporary epistolary novels.