Sue Townsend

Re-issued with the charming original artwork from 1982, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 will rouse the nostalgia of a nation who have Sue Townsend firmly in their hearts. Tuesday January 1st Bank Holiday in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. These are my New Year's resolutions: 1. I will help the blind across the road; 2. I will hang my trousers up; 3. I will put the sleeves back on my records; 4. I will not start smoking; 5. I will stop squeezing my spots; 6. I will be kind to the dog; 7. I will help the poor and ignorant; 8. After hearing the disgusting noises from downstairs last night. I have also vowed never to drink alcohol . . . Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Telling us candidly about his parents' marital troubles, The Dog, his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual'. Adrian's painfully honest diary is still hilarious and compelling reading thirty years after it first appeared. 'Townsend has held a mirror up to the nation and made us happy to laugh at what we see in it' Sunday Telegraph Sue Townsend was born in Leicester in 1946. Despite not learning to read until the age of eight, leaving school at fifteen with no qualifications and having three children by the time she was in her mid-twenties, she always found time to read widely. She also wrote secretly for twenty years. After joining a writer's group at The Phoenix Theatre Leicester, she won a Thames Television award for her first play, Womberang , and became a professional playwright and novelist. After the publication of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 � thirty years ago, Sue continued made the nation laugh and pricked its conscience. She wrote seven further volumes of Adrian's diaries and five other popular novels - including The Queen and I and Number Ten - and numerous well received plays. Sue passed away in 2014 at the age of sixty-eight. She is widely regarded as Britain's favourite comic writer.

Print · Open Road Media · 1982 · English

eBook · Open Road Media · 1982 · English

eBook · Penguin Books · 1982 · English

Adrian Mole continues his diary as he moves through adolescence in early-1980s England. His devotion to Pandora, worries about his parents, literary ambitions, school life, and certainty that he is an unrecognized intellectual collide with events he only partly understands. Adrian records family upheaval and public events with comic seriousness, revealing more to the reader than he intends. The novel continues the story begun in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ and later became the basis of a television series.

Print · 1984 · English

eBook · Open Road Media · 2018 · English

eBook · Methuen · 1984 · English

Adrian Mole is now in his thirties, separated from his wife, raising two sons, and trying to turn modest television recognition into a lasting career. His unfinished novel remains unpublished, his former love Pandora is entering politics, and changes in his parents' lives unsettle him. Through his diary, Adrian records domestic crises, professional disappointments, and late-1990s Britain with the familiar mixture of confidence and self-deception. The fifth Adrian Mole novel follows the character into adulthood while retaining the comic perspective established in his teenage diaries.

Print · Soho · 1999 · English
ISBN 9781569472477

eBook · Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 2018-01-02 · English
ISBN 9781504048804