In his latest brilliant 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 millennium 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.