Editing Alan Coren (section)

===Books===

Coren published about twenty books during his life, many of which were collections of his newspaper columns,<ref name="Tele Obit"/> such as ''Golfing for Cats'' and ''The Cricklewood Diet''.

From 1976 to 1983, he wrote the ''Arthur'' series of children's books.<ref name="Tele Obit"/>

One of his most successful books, ''The Collected Bulletins of Idi Amin'' (a collection of his ''Punch'' articles about [[Idi Amin|Amin]]) was rejected for publication in the United States on the grounds of racial sensitivity.<ref name="Tele Obit" /><ref name="BBC Obit" /> These Bulletins were later made into a comedy album, ''[[The Collected Broadcasts of Idi Amin]]'' with the actor [[John Bird (actor)|John Bird]]. After the [[Fall of Kampala|Tanzanian capture of Kampala]] in 1979 the American journalist Art Barrett discovered a copy of Coren's book on Idi Amin's bedside table.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alan Coren - a brief biography (20/5/1996) |url=https://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/corena/about.htm |access-date=2021-01-27 |website=OurCivilisation.com}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|reason=Source appears to be a WP mirror site|date=July 2024}}

Coren's other books include ''The Dog It Was That Died'' (1965), ''The Sanity Inspector'' (1974), ''All Except The Bastard'' (1978), ''The Lady from Stalingrad Mansions'' (1978), ''The Rhinestone as Big as the Ritz'' (1979), ''Tissues for Men'' (1981), ''Bumf'' (1984), ''Seems Like Old Times: a Year in the Life of Alan Coren'' (1989), ''More Like Old Times'' (1990), ''A Year in Cricklewood'' (1991), ''Toujours Cricklewood?'' (1993), ''Alan Coren's Sunday Best'' (1993), ''A Bit on the Side'' (1995), ''Alan Coren Omnibus'' (1996), ''The Cricklewood Dome'' (1998), ''The Cricklewood Tapestry'' (2002) and ''Waiting for Jeffrey'' (2002).<ref name="Tele Obit"/><ref name="Times Obit"/><ref name="Guardian"/> Coren's final book, ''69 For One'', was published late in 2007.<ref name="Tele Obit"/>