Sue Townsend

A l'Adrian les coses no li van gaire bé: la seva mare no està per ell, el seu pare no l'entén, els amics s'aprofiten de la seva bona fe i, per postres, no té sort amb les noies. Potser és per això que cada dia escriu, en un diari secret, tot el que li passa i com se sent. El diari secret d'Adrian Mole ha estat traduït a vint llengües.

When we last heard from Adrian, he had fallen in love with Daisy Flowers and they had embarked on a new life with their baby, Gracie. Fast-forward four years and Adrian's life is in turmoil - again. Living in the Piggeries is far from ideal, middle age is beckoning and the ups and downs of parenthood are still plaguing him. Can Adrian bounce back from yet another existential crisis or is it too late to put things right?

Adrian Mole is back - he's older, no wiser and possibly even funnier than before ...When we last heard from Adrian, he had fallen in love with Daisy Flowers and they had embarked on a new life with their baby, Gracie. Fast-forward four years and Adrian's life is in turmoil - again. Living in the Piggeries is far from ideal, middle age is beckoning and the ups and downs of parenthood are still plaguing him. Can Adrian bounce back from yet another existential crisis or is it too late to put things right? Sharp, witty and poignant, this is Sue Townsend at her hilarious best.

The UK has come over all republican. The royal ramily exiled to an exclusion zone with the other villains and spongers. And to cap it all, the Queen has threatened to abdicate. Yet Prince Charles is more interested in root vegetables than reigning... unless his wife Camilla can be queen in a newly restored monarchy. And when a scoundrel who claims to he the couple's secret love child oilers to take the crown oil their hands, the stage is set for a right royal showdown.

Adrian Mole is 39 and a quarter. Unable to afford the mortgage on his riverside apartment, he has been forced to move into a semi-detached converted pigsty next door to his parents, George and Pauline. His ravishing wife Daisy loathes the countryside, longs for Dean Street and has yet to buy a pair of Wellingtons; they are both aware the passion has gone out of their marriage, but neither knows how to reignite the flame. To cap it all off, Adrian is leaving his bed numerous times a night to go to the lavatory and has other alarming symptoms, leading him to suspect prostate trouble. Meanwhile, his mother thinks that an appearance on the Jeremy Kyle show might solve the mystery of her daughter's paternity once and for all. And when George is asked to provide a DNA sample, will the shock kill him? He is already disabled, though still chain smoking and has had an ashtray welded onto the arm of his wheelchair. As Adrian's worries multiply, a phone call to his old flame Dr Pandora Braithwaite, BA, MA, PhD, MP and Junior Minister in the Foreign Office, ignites memories of a shared passion and makes him wonder - is she the only one who can save him now?

These musings from Britain's best-loved diarist are sure to be a popular summer reading choice for many. Adrian has now entered early middle age; indeed he is 'the same age as Jesus was when he died (33).' He is struggling with life as a single parent, and a number of issues ...

He's back. Mole, now an angst-ridden 38, is still coping with life in middle-England as a single parent to Glen and William, and battling his own particular weapon of mass destruction.

Monday June 13th 1988 I had a good, proper look at myself in the mirror tonight. I've always wanted to look clever, but at the age of twenty years and three months I have to admit that I look like a person who has never even heard of Jung or Updike. Adrian Mole has grown up. At least that's what it says on his passport. But living at home, clinging to his threadbare cuddly rabbit 'Pinky', working as a paper pusher for the DoE and pining for the love of his life Pandora has proved to him that adulthood isn't quite what he hoped it would be. Still, intellectual poets can't always have things their own way … Included here are two other less well-known diarists: Sue Townsend and Margaret Hilda Roberts, a rather ambitious grocer's daughter from Grantham.

Adrian Mole is thirty-four and three quarters, almost officially middle-age d, when Mr Blair asserts in Parliament that Weapons of Mass Destruction can be deployed within 45 minutes and can reach Cyprus. Now living in a minima list loft apartment at Rat Wharf, overlooking the Grand Union Canal (an are a tipped to become Leicester's equivalent of the Left Bank), Adrian finds s olace in a literary life, working in an antiquarian bookshop owned by the s aintly Mr Carlton-Hayes. But Adrian is worried. About the "pathetic slide t owards gum disease, wheelchair ramps and death"; about whether or not he ca n get a refund on his holiday to Cyprus; about his engagement to flaky New Ager Marigold Flowers; and about his failure to find a celebrity speaker fo r his writing group's Christmas dinner... The latest hilarious instalment of Adrian's diary.

Over the last decade, Sue Townsend has written a monthly column for Sainsbury's Magazine, covering everything from hosepipe bans and Spanish restaurants to writer's block and the posh middle-aged woman she once met who'd never heard of Winnie-the-Pooh. Now collected together for the first time, these funny, perceptive and touching pieces make up this brilliant new book from one of Britain's most popular and acclaimed writers.

Adrian Mole's pen is scribbling for the twenty-first century. Working as a bookseller and living in Leicester's Rat Wharf; finding time to write letters of advice to Tim Henman and Tony Blair; locked in mortal combat with a vicious swan called Gielgud; measuring his expanding bald spot; and trying to escape the clutches of Marigold and win-over her voluptuous sister Daisy Adrian still yearns for a better more meaningful world. And he's not ready to surrender his pen yet

Every book tells a story ... And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935, and that continues to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin. Whether in the guise of a thirteen and three-quarter year old adolescent, a transvestite PM or the Queen reduced to living on a council estate, Sue Townsend has been brilliantly satirizing British life for more than twenty years. Penguin publish all Townsend's hilarious Adrian Mole books and The Queen in Hell Close is an extract from The Queen and I, a brilliantly acerbic take on a Royal Family in dire straits.

At thirteen years old, Adrian Mole has more than his fair share of problems - spots, ill-health, parents threatening to divorce, rejection of his poetry and much more - all recorded with brilliant hu

The day her children leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. She's had enough - of her kids' carelessness, her husband's thoughtlessness and of the world's general indifference Brian can't believe his wife is doing this Who is going to make dinner? Taking it badly, he rings Eva's mother - but she's busy having her hair done So he rings his mother - she isn't surprised...

Enter the world of Susan Lilian Townsend - sun-worshippers, work-shy writers, garden-centre lovers and those in search of a good time all welcome. Over the last decade, Sue Townsend has written a monthly column for Sainsbury's Magazine, which covers everything from hosepipe bans and Spanish restaurants to writer's block and the posh middle-aged woman she once met who'd never heard of Winnie-the-Pooh. Collected together now for the first time, they form a set of pieces from one of Britain's most popular and acclaimed writers that is funny, perceptive and touching.