Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks - Hardcover

'Brilliant' Melvyn Bragg

'Perfect' A.A. Gill

'Wickedly good' Clive James

'A master' Victoria Wood

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.

'Coren is not just a funny writer but a comic genius.'
Observer

'A master humorist!'
Daily Telegraph