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...