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Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren Book

Alan Coren was one of Britain's most prolific humourists, finding the comedy of life all around him and rendering it, hilariously and compellingly, in polished and witty prose which will be eagerly devoured by his loyal fanbase. This book is an anthology of his writings.Read More

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  • Foyles

    Edited by his children, Giles and Victoria, Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks is an anthology of humorous writing from the former editor of Punch and Radio 4 national treasure Alan Coren, who died in October 2007. In a prolific forty-year career Alan Coren wrote for The Times, Observer,Tatler, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday,Listener, Punch and the New Yorker, and published over 20 books including The Sanity Inspector, Golfing for Cats and The Collected Bulletins of Idi Amin (he turned down an invitation from Amin to visit Uganda saying, 'I'll probably end up as a sandwich'). Even twenty years ago he estimated that he had published six million words, or ten copies of War and Peace.Coren was one of Britain's most prolific and now much-missed humourists, finding the comedy of life all around him and rendering it, hilariously and compellingly, in polished and witty prose which will be eagerly devoured by his loyal fanbase.

  • TheBookPeople

    The Queen at a loose end playing I-Spy, QPR fans arguing at the cheese counter, prank phone calls to Mao Tse-Tung, the Roman tax collector Glutinus Sinus dealing with the mud-caked Britons, Gatling guns, an Italian driving school, herons, hearing aids, hosepipe bans, talking parrots ...Welcome to the wonderful world of the late, great Alan Coren.

  • Blackwell

    The ultimate anthology of the humorous writing of the 'Sage of Cricklewood'. The Queen at a loose end playing I-Spy, QPR fans arguing at the cheese counter, prank phone calls to Mao Tse-Tung, the Roman tax collector Glutinus Sinus dealing with the...

  • BookDepository

    Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks : Paperback : Canongate Books : 9781847673213 : 184767321X : 01 Jul 2010 : The ultimate anthology of the humorous writing of the 'Sage of Cricklewood'.

  • Pickabook

    Alan Coren, Giles Coren (Editor), Victoria Coren (Editor)

  • 184767321X
  • 9781847673213
  • Alan Coren
  • 4 June 2009
  • Canongate Books Ltd
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 438
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