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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

Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years

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

The Queen and I

Queen Camilla

Number Ten

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Prime Minister Edward Clare and his wife Adele Floret-Clare live at Number 10 Downing Street. PC Jack Sprat is the policeman who stands outside on the door. 
Five years ago, Edward Clare was voted into Number 10 after a landslide election result. But now, things are starting to go wrong. The love has gone. The people are turning. In short, it's a very real problem. 
Edward worries about this. All he wants is for the people of Clare's Britain to like him, and for them to be happy. He enlists the help of Jack Sprat and together they travel round the country incognito, ending up at Jack's childhood home. His mother Norma lives in Leicester, and her address is Number 10 too, but that's where the similarity ends...

Number Ten has already sold over 100,000 copies in hardback.

Number Ten is the brilliantly funny political satire by Sue Townsend, bestselling author of the Adrian Mole series 
 
'Wickedly entertaining. There is a gem on nearly every page. Nothing escapes Townsend's withering pen. Satirical, witty, observant' Observer 
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Behind the doors of the most famous address in the country, all is not well. 
 
Edward Clare was voted into Number Ten after a landslide election victory. But a few years later and it is all going wrong. 
 
The love of the people is gone. The nation is turning against him. 
 
Panicking, Prime Minister Clare enlists the help of Jack Sprat, the policeman on the door of No 10, and sets out to discover what the country really thinks of him. 
 
In disguise, they venture into the great unknown: the mean streets of Great Britain. 
 
And for the first time in years, the Prime Minister experiences everything life in this country has to offer - an English cream tea, the kindness of strangers, waiting for trains that never come and treatment in a hospital. 
 
And at last he remembers some of things he once really cared about . . . 
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'Poignant, hilarious, heart-rending, devastating' New Statesman 
 
'Hilarious. Sue Townsend's laughter is infectious' Sunday Telegraph Books of the Year

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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