Writing
Aged 14, she had a short story published under a pseudonym in Just Seventeen magazine and then won a competition in The Daily Telegraph to write a column about teenage life for their "Weekend" section, which she continued writing for several years.
Her books include Love 16 and Once More, with Feeling, about her attempt (with co-author Charlie Skelton) to make the best hardcore porn movie ever. This came off the back of their jobs reviewing porn films for the Erotic Review—a job which led them to believe that most of what they were watching was terrible and that they could make better films themselves.
Coren adapted the newspaper columns of John Diamond into a play called A Lump in my Throat which was performed at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh, the Grace Theatre and New End Theatre in London, before Coren adapted it again for a TV play on BBC2 starring Neil Pearson.
Victoria and Giles Coren wrote an introduction to Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks, an anthology of the best comic writing by their father Alan Coren, published by Canongate in October 2008.
Her poker memoir For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker was published in September 2009, and was well reviewed in The Times and The Observer, as well as other places.
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