Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks. Alan Coren

      CHOCOLATE AND

       CUCKOO CLOCKS

      THE ESSENTIAL ALAN COREN

      EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY

       GILES COREN AND VICTORIA COREN

      Contents

Foreword by Giles and Victoria Coren
1. Present Laughter
Southgate–San Francisco–Fleet Street: 1960–1969 Introduction by Melvyn Bragg
2. No, But I Saw the Movie
3. Through a Glass, Darkly
4. It Tolls for Thee
5. … that Fell on the House that Jack Built
6. Under the Influence of Literature
7. This Thing with the Lions
8. Bohemia
9. The Power and the Glory
10. Mao, He’s Making Eyes At Me!
11. Death Duties
‘The Funniest Writer In Britain Today’: 1970–1979 Introduction by Victoria Wood
12. Boom, What Makes My House Go Boom?
13. Suffer Little Children
14. Ear, Believed Genuine Van Gogh, Hardly Used, What Offers?
15. Father’s Lib
16. Let Us Now Phone Famous Men
17. The Rime of the Ancient Film-maker
18. Good God, That’s Never The Time, Is It?
19. Going Cheep
20. Go Easy, Mr Beethoven, That Was Your Fifth!
21. Take the Wallpaper in the Left Hand and the Hammer in the Right …
22. Owing to Circumstances Beyond our Control 1984 has been Unavoidably Detained …
23. Foreword to Golfing for Cats: An Apology to the Bookseller
24. Baby Talk, Keep Talking Baby Talk 168
25. The Hell at Pooh Corner
26. And Though They Do Their Best To Bring Me Aggravation …
27. Life mit Vater
28. Dr No will See You Now
29. Bottle Party
30. The Unacknowledged Legislators of the World
31. The Hounds Of Spring Are On Winter’s Traces, So That’s Thirty-Eight-Pounds-Forty, Plus Making Good, Say, Fifty-Quid
Appendix: The Bulletins of Idi Amin
32. All O’ De People, All De Time
33. A Word F’om De Sponsor
34. De Whitehall Snub
35. A Star Gittin’ Born
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