Product Description

Edited by his children, Giles and Victoria, "Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks" is an anthology of 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8479 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 438 pages

Review
'Coren is our heavyweight champion humorist, over-powering as well as graceful, able to do everything, sometimes in the same short article.' Guardian

About the Author
Alan Coren (27 June 1938 - 18 October 2007) was an English humourist, writer and satirist who was well known as a regular panellist on the BBC radio quiz The News Quiz and a team captain on BBC television's Call My Bluff. Coren was also a journalist, and for nine years was the editor of Punch magazine.

Customer Reviews

Very funny prose, a great read
Very funny and surprisingly informative. Coren is a wonderful writer and a lot of what he has to say is intelligent and genuinely interesting as well as funny. Well recommended.

Don't read this in bed unless you sleep alone
If herself is sitting there with her thumb up her Jane Austen ("Sense & Prejudice" or somesuch), she'll elbow you in the ribs for laughing until both sides ache, but one much more than the other. It is not just one of the funniest books you'll read, it is also fascinating to see his style develop. The examples are in chronological order covering semi-defined periods of his life and you can see how he develops ideas and structures. The piece about Leonardo da Vinci is sheer genius and, as with others, would have made a wonderful TV sketch. What a loss to us, but God must be wetting himself.

Brilliant!
With Alan Corens books you always smile throughout the story and in the end you burst into laughter.
Its a brilliant collection which I highly recommend for fans of Alan or fans of short stories in general.