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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: 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

Number Ten

The Queen and I

Queen Camilla

The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

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Every sentence is witty and well thought out, and the whole has reverberations beyond itself

One of literature's most endearing figures. Mole is an excellent guide for all of us

Adrian Mole will be remembered some day as one of England's great diarists

The funniest, most bitter-sweet book you're likely to read this year

Adrian Mole Book 2

Sunday July 18th 
 
My father announced at breakfast that he is going to have a vasectomy. I pushed my sausages away untouched. 
 
In this second instalment of teenager Adrian Mole's diaries, the Mole family is in crisis and the country is beating the drum of war. While his parents have reconciled after both embarked on disastrous affairs, Adrian is shocked to learn of his mother's pregnancy. 
 
And even though at the mercy of his rampant hormones and the fickle whims of the divine Pandora, a victim of a broken home and his own tortured (though unrecognised) genius, Adrian continues valiantly to chronicle the pains and pleasures of a misspent adolescence.

The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole is the second book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series. 
 
Sunday July 18th 
My father announced at breakfast that he is going to have a vasectomy. I pushed my sausages away untouched. 
 
In this second instalment of teenager Adrian Mole's diaries, the Mole family is in crisis and the country is beating the drum of war. While his parents have reconciled after both embarked on disastrous affairs, Adrian is shocked to learn of his mother's pregnancy. 
 
And even though at the mercy of his rampant hormones and the fickle whims of the divine Pandora, a victim of a broken home and his own tortured (though unrecognised) genius, Adrian continues valiantly to chronicle the pains and pleasures of a misspent adolescence. 
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'Funny, moving and a poke in the eye for adult morality' Sunday Express 
 
'Written with great verve, and showing an uncanny understanding of the young, Sue Townsend holds the balance between innocence and precocity and the result is both hilarious and salutary' Daily Telegraph 
 
'Life's no fun for an adolescent intellectual. For the reader it's a hoot' New Statesman

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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Every sentence is witty and well thought out, and the whole has reverberations beyond itself

One of literature's most endearing figures. Mole is an excellent guide for all of us

Adrian Mole will be remembered some day as one of England's great diarists

The funniest, most bitter-sweet book you're likely to read this year

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