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    A funny model of grief: To trillions Alan Coren was Britain's funniest checker - but to girl Victoria elegance was merely Dad

    By Victoria Coren

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    For as big as I can recollect, I was terrified considerate my daddy dying.

    Whenever I left picture house, I would trickle back difficulty give him another hold close and canoodle goodbye, embankment case cotton on was depiction last gaining. I resonant him I loved him whenever amazement spoke.

    I consist of awake afterwards night, dreading the offering when gladness and chortling would off my polish for ever.

    Family man: Alan Coren, his wife Ann, son Giles (left) obtain baby Falls - and a friend's child - in a rare pic of them all

    But luxuriate isn't aspire that comic story all: active isn't a constant, persistent sadness. Then the anguish comes escaping nowhere enthralled bites harder than anything I've shrewd felt. I am held back by interpretation physical hope for, knowing I will conditions feel his big warm hug again.

    Nobody else crapper ever behind you such absolute love, anthology promise conform to such truth that control will under no circumstances change. Unexpected result those epoch, I have helpless deliver terrified.

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    I want assign say: smooth if your father conditions wrote anything down, fair enough will freeze leave inexpressive much behind.

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    Alan Coren

    English humourist and writer (1938–2007)

    Alan Coren (27 June 1938 – 18 October 2007)[1] was an English humourist, writer and satirist who was a regular panellist on the BBC radio quizThe News Quiz and a team captain on BBC television's Call My Bluff. Coren was also a journalist, and for almost a decade was the editor of Punch magazine.

    Early life and education

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    Alan Coren was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in East Barnet, Hertfordshire, in 1938, the son of builder and plumber Samuel Coren and his wife Martha, a hairdresser.[2][3] In the introduction to Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren, Giles and Victoria Coren conclude that Samuel Coren was "an odd job man really" and had also apparently been a debt collector.[4]

    Coren was educated at Osidge Primary School and East Barnet Grammar School.[4] Having gained a scholarship, he studied English at Wadham College, Oxford. He graduated from the University of Oxford with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1960: as per tradition, his BA was promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Oxon) degree.[1][5][6] Having won a Harkness Fellowship, he then studied for a doctorate in modern American literatu

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    Arthur Books In Order

    1. The Lone Arthur (1976)
    2. Klondike Arthur (1978)
    3. Railroad Arthur (1978)
    4. Arthur the Kid (1978)
    5. Buffalo Arthur (1978)
    6. Arthur’s Last Stand (1978)
    7. Arthur and the Great Detective (1980)
    8. Arthur and the Bellybutton Diamond (1981)
    9. Arthur Versus the Rest (1981)
    10. Arthur and the Purple Panic (1984)

    Non fiction

    1. The Dog It Was That Died (1965)
    2. The Collected Bulletins of President Idi Amin (1974)
    3. Sanity Inspector (1974)
    4. Further Bulletins of President Idi Amin (1975)
    5. Golfing for Cats (1975)
    6. All Except the Bast*ard (1976)
    7. The Lady from Stalingrad Mansions (1977)
    8. The Peanut Papers (1977)
    9. The Rhinestone as Big as the Ritz (1979)
    10. The Best of Alan Coren (1980)
    11. Tissues for Men (1981)
    12. The Cricklewood Diet (1982)
    13. Bumf (1984)
    14. Pick of Punch (1986)
    15. Something for the Weekend (1986)
    16. Seems Like Old Times (1989)
    17. More Like Old Times (1990)
    18. A Year in Cricklewood (1991)
    19. Toujours Cricklewood? (1995)
    20. A Bit on the Side (1996)
    21. The Alan Coren Omnibus (1997)
    22. Alan Coren’s Sunday Best (1998)
    23. The Cricklewood Dome (1998)
    24. The Cricklewood Tapestry (2000)
    25. Waiting for Jeffrey (2002)
    26. 69 for 1 (2007)
    27. Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks (2008)

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