Alan Coren Books In Order

Arthur Books In Order

  1. The Lone Arthur (1976)
  2. Klondike Arthur (1978)
  3. Railroad Arthur (1978)
  4. Arthur the Kid (1978)
  5. Buffalo Arthur (1978)
  6. Arthur’s Last Stand (1978)
  7. Arthur and the Great Detective (1980)
  8. Arthur and the Bellybutton Diamond (1981)
  9. Arthur Versus the Rest (1981)
  10. Arthur and the Purple Panic (1984)

Non fiction

  1. The Dog It Was That Died (1965)
  2. The Collected Bulletins of President Idi Amin (1974)
  3. Sanity Inspector (1974)
  4. Further Bulletins of President Idi Amin (1975)
  5. Golfing for Cats (1975)
  6. All Except the Bast*ard (1976)
  7. The Lady from Stalingrad Mansions (1977)
  8. The Peanut Papers (1977)
  9. The Rhinestone as Big as the Ritz (1979)
  10. The Best of Alan Coren (1980)
  11. Tissues for Men (1981)
  12. The Cricklewood Diet (1982)
  13. Bumf (1984)
  14. Pick of Punch (1986)
  15. Something for the Weekend (1986)
  16. Seems Like Old Times (1989)
  17. More Like Old Times (1990)
  18. A Year in Cricklewood (1991)
  19. Toujours Cricklewood? (1995)
  20. A Bit on the Side (1996)
  21. The Alan Coren Omnibus (1997)
  22. Alan Coren’s Sunday Best (1998)
  23. The Cricklewood Dome (1998)
  24. The Cricklewood Tapestry (2000)
  25. Waiting for Jeffrey (2002)
  26. 69 for 1 (2007)
  27. Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks (2008)

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Alan Coren Books Overview

Klondike Arthur

It takes a ten year old bard to reform Grizzly Wilkinson, the meanest prospector in the Klondike gold fields.

Railroad Arthur

Ten year old Arthur must not only solve a series of train robberies but must clear his own name of suspicion.

Arthur the Kid

Ten year old Arthur the Kid takes over an outlaw gang and changes their lives forever.

Buffalo Arthur

In response to a newspaper advertiseme*nt, 10 year old Buffalo Arthur searches for a ring of cattle rustlers.

Arthur’s Last Stand

Ten year old Arthur employs an unusual technique to save the garrison at Fort Moccasin from an Indian attack.

Toujours Cricklewood?

Toujours Cricklewood? carries on about the night the Kaiser bombed Caruso and the day Queen Victoria’s head fell off, it carries on about Pompeii’s daftest brothels and Princess Anne’s public lavatories, it carries on, in fact about everything from T.S. Elliots’s Cricklewood weekends and Ernest Hemmingway’s. In short, it might well have been called carry on up Cricklewood, if it weren’t so serious.

A Bit on the Side

Mr. Coren is not just a funny writer, but a comic genius. The Observer Mr. Coren has a wildness and a stringency all his own. The New Yorker Coren is, quite simply, a brilliantly funny writer whose talents place him so far in front of the pack it just isn’t true. The Irish Times Marvelously deft and funny. The natural heir to Thurber and Perelman. The New York Times The funniest writer in Britain today. The Sunday Times In his most important book to date, the Sage of Cricklewood lifts his eyes from the navel of the universe to contemplate matters beyond. Someone has to. If Jeffrey Archer is to become King of Estonia, if Naomi Campbell is to carry off the nobel prize, if fat people are to walk effortlessly to Shanghei, if Britain’s linoleum is to take its rightful place in the history of civilization and its low flush suites are to conquer the seven seas, the only man is Alan Coren. Because his position is A Bit on the Side.

The Alan Coren Omnibus

A personal selection by Britain’s master humorist of seventy two pieces from the thousands with which he has delighted readers for the past forty years. It is, in every sense, essential Coren.

The Cricklewood Dome

Mr Coren is not just a funny writer but a comic genius Observer Coren is our heavyweight champion humorist, over powering as well as graceful, able to do everything, sometimes in the same short article. Gardian Marvellously deft and funny. The natural heir to Thurber and Perelman. New York Times Superbly inventive, extremely funny and full of enexpected comic feats Sunday Telegraph Cricklewood has become one of the best known of British suburbs. This is the work of Alan Coren, the Sage of Cricklewood. He has put Cricklewood on the map, in the way that ‘Private Eye’ put Neasden and Bill Bryson put Des Moines on the map. The difference is that Coren makes us love Cricklewood as well as laugh at it. The Times

The Cricklewood Tapestry

In his latest brilliant, funniest collection, Alan Coren peers out yet again from the window of his Cricklewood attic upon the passing show beneath, only to rush back to his desk every thousand wordsworth or so to capture, in his matchless comic fashion, the lunacies of a millenium yet dottier than the last. In short, here is not only everything you have come to expect from Coren, but also everything you would never expect. Here, woven with all the dazzling nimbleness of life’s most hilarious embroiderer, is The Cricklewood Tapestry.

Waiting for Jeffrey

Alan Coren’s deeply serious new collection is dedicated to Prisoner FF 8282, and is expressly designed to help fill in the disconsolate leisure hours of the bereft millions who have nothing to read until the chokey gates fly open and the world’s most missed writer bounces out, carrying the sackload of manuscripts which it has been Her Majesty’s pleasure to subsidise. Till then, read this it may not be much, but it’ll do until the right thing comes along. Mr Coren is not just a funny writer, but a comic genius. Observer About the Author Alan Coren is renowned for his brilliantly funny writing. Formerly editor of Punch magazine, previous collections of his witty writing have all been best sellers. These include The Alan Coren Omnibus and The Cricklewood Tapestry. Alan appears on Radio 4 s News Quiz and on TV s Call My Bluff.

69 for 1

In Alan Coren’s world, children, threatened by Josef Mengele’s poisoned chickens, still turn to Winston Churchill to save them from school dinners, Clark Gable snuggles, as ever, against the bristly chest of his lover Errol Flynn despite having been captured on video by the entire British delegation of a Hong Kong sales conference, and, though the NHS budget has soared to record heights, hysterectomies throughout the queendom continue to be performed by enthusiastic poulterers. As for Coren himself, despite bearing the distinguished rank of full colonel in the Confederate Air Force, he remains plagued by recurrent nightmares that his membership of the P.G. Wodehouse Society has been poached by a Polish imposter in spats. Nightmares can get that way if your every waking moment is infested with worries about the American takeover of HP Sauce. Nevertheless, England’s best loved humorist still found time between these covers to explain why Cannon & Ball have relaunched themselves as Pride & Prejudice, to work out that if J.K. Rowling had put all her Harry Potter income on Archer’s Folly in the 3.1 5 at Haydock Park she would be richer than Bill Gates, and to reveal exactly why he took Princess Michael of Kent to see the smuttiest statue in London. For that is the world in which Alan Coren lived quirky, laugh out loud funny, simply inimitably Coren. This is a wonderful tribute to a great writer and humorist. Alan Coren, who died last year, wrote 21 humorous books for adults, 10 novels for children, plays, documentaries and situation comedies and edited a dozen anthologies of humour and fiction. For 30 years a weekly resident on Radio 4’s The News Quiz, and for ten years a team captain on BBC1’s Call My Bluff, he also contributed a weekly column to The Times.

Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks

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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