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The 40th Anniversary Edition with an introduction from Caitlin Moran

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4

Abridged Edition

Penguin Readers Level 3: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ (ELT Graded Reader)

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾

Adrian Mole Book 2

The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole

Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years

Adrian Mole and The Weapons of Mass Destruction

Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years

The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001

The Secret Diary & Growing Pains of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾

Adrian Mole: The Collected Poems

True Confessions of Margaret Hilda Roberts Aged 14 ¼

Rebuilding Coventry

The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year

The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman

Ghost Children

Number Ten

The Queen and I

Queen Camilla

Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years

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Celebrate Adrian Mole's 50th Birthday with this new edition of the fifth book in his diaries, where Adrian faces divorce, fatherhood and (short-lived) television stardom

With the Mole books, Townsend has an unrivalled claim to be this country's foremost practising comic novelist

Adrian Mole really is a brilliant comic creation. Every sentence is witty and well thought out, and the whole has reverberations beyond itself

One of the greatest comic creations. I can't remember a more relentlessly funny book

Three cheers for Mole' chaotic, non-achieving, dysfunctional family. We need him

Wednesday August 13th 
 
Here I am again - in my old bedroom. Older, wiser, but with less hair, unfortunately. The atmosphere in this house is very bad. The dog looks permanently exhausted. Every time the phone rings my mother snatches it up as though a kidnapper were on the line. 
 
Adrian Mole is thirty, single and a father. His cooking at a top London restaurant has been equally mocked ('the sausage on my plate could have been a turd' - AA Gill) and celebrated (will he be the nation's first celebrity offal chef?). And the love of his life, Pandora Braithwaite, is the newly elected MP for Ashby-de-la-Zouch - one of 'Blair's Babes'. He is frustrated, disappointed and undersexed. 
But a letter from Adrian's past is about to change everything . . .

'The funniest person in the world' Caitlin Moran 
 
'My comfort read. The best diaries ever written - with apologies to Samuel Pepys, Bridget Jones and me' ADAM KAY 
 
Celebrate Adrian Mole's 50th Birthday with this new edition of the FIFTH BOOK in his diaries, where Adrian faces divorce, fatherhood and (short-lived) television stardom . . . 
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Adrian Mole is thirty, single and a father. 
 
His cooking at a top London restaurant has been equally mocked ('the sausage on my plate could have been a turd') and celebrated (will he be the nation's first celebrity offal chef?). 
 
And the love of his life, Pandora Braithwaite, is too busy as the newly elected MP for Ashby-de-la-Zouch to notice him. 
 
Frustrated, disappointed and undersexed, Adrian despairs until a letter from his past changes everything . . . 
 
'With the Mole books, Townsend has an unrivalled claim to be this country's foremost practising comic novelist' Mail on Sunday 
 
'Adrian Mole really is a brilliant comic creation. Every sentence is witty and well thought out, and the whole has reverberations beyond itself' The Times 
 
'One of the greatest comic creations. I can't remember a more relentlessly funny book' Daily Mirror 
 
'Three cheers for Mole's chaotic, non-achieving, dysfunctional family. We need him' Evening Standard

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 writers' 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 13¾, Sue continued to make the nation laugh and prick its conscience. She wrote seven further volumes of Adrian's diaries and five other popular novels - including The Queen and I, Number Ten and The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year - and numerous well received plays. Sue passed away in 2014 at the age of sixty-eight. She remains widely regarded as Britain's favourite comic writer.

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