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England became an unhappy and fearful place, Prince Charles has been living quietly on a bleak council estate, with his wife and love of his life, Camilla. But life is about to change. Charles refuses to follow his destiny unless his wife can be Queen - and public opinion suggests the people would rather have Jordan than Camilla on the throne.

Working as a bookseller and living in Leicesters Rat Wharf and trying to escape the clutches of Marigold and win over her voluptuous sister Daisy Adrian Mole still yearns for a better more meaningful world. And hes not ready to surrender his pen yet.

Behind the doors of the most famous address in the country. All is not well. Five years ago, Edward Clare was voted in to Number Ten after a landslide election result. But things are starting to go wrong. The love has gone. The people are turning. Leaving behind his superwoman wife Adele, Prime Minister Clare enlists the help of Jack Sprat, a policeman on the door of Number Ten, and sets out to discover what the country really thinks of him. Sneaking out of the back door incognito, they venture into the great unknown: the mean streets of Great Britain. For the first time in years, the Prime Minister experiences everything life in his country has to offer - an English cream tea. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and the kindness of strangers, as well as having to wait for trains and undergo treatment in a hospital - and remembers some of the things he's forgotten he used to really care about . . .

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.

Adrian Mole has at last reached physical maturity, but he can't help roaming the pages of his diary like an untamed adolescent. Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora, he seeks solace in the arms of Bianca, a qualified hydraulic engineer masquerading as a waitress. Between his dishwashing job and completing his epic novel, 'Lo! The Flat Hills of My Homeland', Adrian hopes that fame and fortune will not keep him waiting much longer.

The troubled teenager continues to struggle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life. In between the ups and downs of his relationship with the divine Pandora and worrying that his genius is going unrecognized, Adrian Mole chronicles the pains and pleasures of a misspent adolescence.

Behind the door of the most famous address in the country are Prime Minister Edward Clare and his wife, Adele Floret-Clare (voted the cleverest woman in Europe; author of the bestseller 'God Is A Lesbian'). PC Jack Sprat is the policeman who stands outside on the door. Voted into office five years ago after a landslide election result. Edward Clare finds that things are starting to go wrong. The love has gone. The people are turning. All he wants is for the people of Clare's Britain to like him, and for them to be happy. Enlisting the help of Jack Sprat, Edward travels around the country incognito to find out what the nation really thinks...

A seminal comic masterpiece of our time, now published for the first time in Penguin. The Monarchy Has Been Dismantled. When a Republican party wins the General Election, their first act in power is to strip the royal family of their assets and titles and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands. Exchanging Buckingham Palace for a two-bedroomed semi in Hell Close (as the locals dub it), caviar for boiled eggs, servants for a social worker named Trish, the Queen and her family learn what it means to be poor among the great unwashed. But is their breeding sufficient to allow them to rise above their changed circumstance or deep down are they really just like everyone else?

My mother's gone right off me since Rosie was born. She was never a particularly attentive mother - I always had to clean my own shoes. But just lately I have been feeling emotionally deprived. If I turn out to be mentally deranged in adult life, it will all be my mother's fault.

Diario de Adrian Mole, un joven quineañero patoso y gafe, donde vuelca todas sus intimidades, con gran sentido del humor.