Book 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. 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best of Coren's previously published material as well as new unpublished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.
