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Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren

Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren

by Alan Coren (Author), Alan Coren (Author)

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    Hardcover 2008

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Synopsis

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. This anthology draws together the best of Coren's previously published material as well as new unpublished autobiographical material. 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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 464
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 02 Oct 2008
ISBN 10: 1847673201
ISBN 13: 9781847673206

Media Reviews
A comic genius. * * The Times * *
The field is led by Alan Coren. * * Observer * *
Coren is our heavyweight champion humorist, over-powering as well as graceful, able to do everything, sometimes in the same short article. * * Guardian * *
The funniest writer in Britain today. * * Sunday Times * *
Coruscating! A master humorist! * * Daily Telegraph * *
He has a comic imagination which can actually render your jaded scribe flabbergasted. -- Clive James * * Observer * *
His power of observation knows no bounds. * * Daily Mail * *
A dazzling selection of the master's pieces . . . What fecund invention! What verbal mastery! * * Spectator * *
Author Bio
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