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.