Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren (English Edition)
<b>A hilarious anthology of comic treasures written by Britain’s “comic genius”—the former editor of <i>Punch</i> and beloved regular on BBC’s Radio 4 (<i>The Times</i>).</b><br />  <br /> Alan Coren was one of contemporary Britain’s most prolific humorists. Over his forty-year career, Coren wrote comic and satirical pieces for <i>The New Yorker</i>, <i>The Times</i>, <i>Observer</i>, <i>Tatler</i>, <i>Daily Mail</i>, <i>Mail on Sunday</i>, and <i>Punch</i>, and published more than twenty books including <i>The Sanity Inspector</i>, <i>Golfing for Cats</i> and <i>The Collected Bulletins of Idi Amin</i>. This anthology draws together the best of Coren’s previously published material as well as never-before-published autobiographical material.<br />  <br /> In these pages, you will find 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!<br />  <br /><b>“Truly funny.” —Stephen Fry, actor, producer, director, and author of <i>The Hippopotamus</i></b>