Sue Townsend

Adrian Mole is thirty-nine and a quarter. He lives in the country in a semi-detached converted pigsty with his wife Daisy and their daughter. His parents George and Pauline live in the adjoining pigsty. But all is not well.

It's 1997. Adrian, 30, is a chef at an up-market restaurant, selling down-market food for ridiculous prices....

Adrian Mole is 39 and a quarter. He has been forced to move next door to his parents. And his numerous nightly visits to the lavatory lead him to suspect prostate trouble....

Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life....

Adrian is a single parent who has an on/off relationship with his housing officer, Pamela Pigg. Will she help him to move from the notorious Gaitskell estate.....

Adrian Mole is an adult. At least that's what it says on his passport....

Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora, Adrian Mole finds himself in the situation of living with the love of his life as she goes about shacking up with other men....

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....

When a Republican party wins the general election, they strip the royal family of everything and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands....

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first publication of Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole, Penguin Audiobooks are re-releasing the audiobook edition....

Adrian Mole is 34 and three quarters, almost officially middle-aged, when Mr. Blair tells Parliament that Weapons of Mass Destruction can be deployed in 45 minutes and can reach Cyprus....

Adrian Mole is an adult. 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 expected.

The day her children leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there....

Adrian Mole continues to struggle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life in this second volume of his secret diary.

So how do I greet the New Millennium? In despair. I'm a single parent, I live with my mother...I have a bald spot the size of a jaffa cake on the back of my head...I can't go on like this, drifting into early middle-age. I need a Life Plan....

For the past 13 years, as England became an increasingly unhappy and fearful place, Prince Charles has been living quietly on a bleak council estate....

The hilarious SEVENTH BOOK in Sue Townsend's bestselling series sees Adrian fall in love, be inconvenienced by the war, and face his new nemesis: a swan from the local canal.

Coventry Dakin's tale begins with her accidental killing of her neighbour....

Sue Townsend, creator of the much-loved Adrian Mole series, tells a compassionate and gritty story of love and loss in Ghost Children....

Collected now for the first time, these columns from one of Britain’s most popular and acclaimed writers are funny, perceptive, and touching....