Sue Townsend

Adrian Mole tiene trece años y medio. También tiene un padre de cuarenta años que no sabe dónde está la parada del autobús, una madre indecisa entre su marido y un vecino, una abuela a la antigua usanza, un compañero que le extorsiona, un perro, una amiga que no parece derretirse por su amor y varias revistas de chicas bajo el colchon. Con un corrosivo sentido del humor, Sue Townsend transcribe las causticas impresiones de un adolescente en su diario secreto. Tema: Intimidad, sentimientos y familia Tratamiento: Humor Valores: Amistad, amor, familia

The day her twins leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. For seventeen years she''s wanted to yell at the world, ''Stop! I want to get off''. Finally, this is her chance. Her husband Brian, an astronomer having an unsatisfactory affair, is upset. Who will cook his dinner? Eva, he complains, is attention seeking. But word of Eva''s defiance spreads. Legions of fans, believing she is protesting, gather in the street. While her new friend Alexander the white van man brings tea, toast and an unexpected sympathy. And from this odd but comforting place Eva begins to see both herself and the world very, very differently. . . ''Laugh-out-loud . . . a teeming world of characters whose foibles and misunderstandings provide glorious amusement. Something deeper and darker than comedy.'' Sunday Times ''She fills the pages with turmoil, anger, passion, love and big helpings of wit. It''s full of colour and glows with life.'' Independent ''Touching and hilarious. Bursting with witty social commentary as well as humour.'' Women''s Weekly ''A funny, poignant look at modern family life.'' Daily Express ''Touching and ridiculously funny . . . just genius.'' Closer ''Hilarious . . . will have you cheering Eva''s one-woman war on everything.'' Now

At thirteen years old, Adrian Mole has more than his fair share of problems - spots, ill-health, parents threatening to divorce, rejection of his poetry and much more - all recorded with brilliant hu

The day her children leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. She's had enough - of her kids' carelessness, her husband's thoughtlessness and of the world's general indifference Brian can't believe his wife is doing this Who is going to make dinner? Taking it badly, he rings Eva's mother - but she's busy having her hair done So he rings his mother - she isn't surprised...

The UK has come over all republican. The royal ramily exiled to an exclusion zone with the other villains and spongers. And to cap it all, the Queen has threatened to abdicate. Yet Prince Charles is more interested in root vegetables than reigning... unless his wife Camilla can be queen in a newly restored monarchy. And when a scoundrel who claims to he the couple's secret love child oilers to take the crown oil their hands, the stage is set for a right royal showdown.

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.

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.

Adrian Mole is 39 and a quarter. Unable to afford the mortgage on his riverside apartment, he has been forced to move into a semi-detached converted pigsty next door to his parents, George and Pauline. His ravishing wife Daisy loathes the countryside, longs for Dean Street and has yet to buy a pair of Wellingtons; they are both aware the passion has gone out of their marriage, but neither knows how to reignite the flame. To cap it all off, Adrian is leaving his bed numerous times a night to go to the lavatory and has other alarming symptoms, leading him to suspect prostate trouble. Meanwhile, his mother thinks that an appearance on the Jeremy Kyle show might solve the mystery of her daughter''s paternity once and for all. And when George is asked to provide a DNA sample, will the shock kill him? He is already disabled, though still chain smoking and has had an ashtray welded onto the arm of his wheelchair. As Adrian''s worries multiply, a phone call to his old flame Dr Pandora Braithwaite, BA, MA, PhD, MP and Junior Minister in the Foreign Office, ignites memories of a shared passion and makes him wonder - is she the only one who can save him now?

Adrian Mole has entered early middle age and is now 'the same age as Jesus was when he died' (33). Father to the grammatically challenged Glenn, and William, who takes a 'Big Boy Arouser' condom to nursery school as his innocent contribution to a hot air balloon project, 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 before William joins the Mad Frankie Fraser fan club? In the meantime, Adrian continues to be scandalised by his irresponsible parents who are conducting a matrimonial square-dance with the Braithwaites - the parents of the beautiful but unobtainable Pandora, who is ruthlessly pursuing her ambition to be New Labour's first woman P.M. - and to confide in his diary. His current worries include: indestructible head-lice; his raging jealousy when his accomplished half-brother Brett arrives on his doorstep; moral decline in The Archers; his desperate attachment to two therapists; his mild addiction to Starburst (formerly Opal Fruits); a small earthquake in Leicester; and, perhaps most significantly, the dawn of a new millennium.