Synopses & Reviews
In a prolific 40-year career Alan Coren wrote for the Times, Observer, Tatler, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Listener, Punch, and the New Yorker, and published more than 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 20 years ago he estimated that he had published six million words, or 10 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 This anthology draws together the best of Coren's previously published material as well as new unpublished autobiographical material.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 humorists, 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.
Review
"Brings together a well-chosen and quiveringly funny sample of [Corens] comic writing . . . The humor in these columns isn't about one-liners and the best pieces take a fertile idea and run a mile with it, sparking a shower of bon mots in the process." Observer
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"A comic genius." Times
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"Coren is our heavyweight champion humorist, over-powering as well as graceful, able to do everything, sometimes in the same short article." Guardian
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"Anthologies of humorous writing are usually deadly, but this one collatesAlan Corens's work into decades, each with an introduction by someone you've heard of . . . Coren's anarchic silliness has something to play against." Daily Telegraph
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
In a prolific 40-year career Alan Coren wrote for the Times, Observer, Tatler, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Listener, Punch, and the New Yorker, and published more than 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 20 years ago he estimated that he had published six million words, or 10 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 humorists, 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.
About the Author
Alan Coren (19382007) was an English humourist, writer, and satirist who was well known as a regular panelist on BBC radio's 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.