Adrian Mole The Wilderness Years

Author : Sue Townsend
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141962443

Get Book

Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years by Sue Townsend Pdf

'A classic. The Adrian Mole diaries are thoroughly subversive. A true hero for our time' Richard Ingrams Celebrate Adrian Mole's 50th Birthday with this new edition of the FOURTH BOOK in his diaries, where we catch up with a hapless Adrian and his desperate attempts to win back the love of his life. --------------------------- Thursday January 3rd I have the most terrible problems with my sex life. It all boils down to the fact that I have no sex life. At least not with another person. Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora, Adrian Mole finds himself in the unenviable situation of living with the love-of-his-life as she goes about shacking up with other men. Worse, as he slides down the employment ladder, from deskbound civil servant in Oxford to part-time washer-upper in Soho, he finds that critical reception for his epic novel, Lo! The Flat Hills of My Homeland, is not quite as he might have hoped. But Adrian is about to discover that extraordinary and wonderful things may blossom even in the wilderness . . . 'A very, very funny book' Sunday Times 'The funniest person in the world' Caitlin Moran

Author : Sue Townsend
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0060533994

Get Book

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend Pdf

Adrian Mole's first love, Pandora, has left him; a neighbor, Mr. Lucas, appears to be seducing his mother (and what does that mean for his father?); the BBC refuses to publish his poetry; and his dog swallowed the tree off the Christmas cake. "Why" indeed.

Author : Sue Townsend
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140279405

Get Book

Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend Pdf

It's 1997. Adrian, 30 is a chef at an up-market restaurant, selling down-market food for ridiculous prices. There, the only person who seems to notice he can't cook is AA Gill. But problems abound when, in a fit of madness, he agrees to become a TV chef on the show Offally Good.

Author : Sue Townsend
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141046563

Get Book

The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001 by Sue Townsend Pdf

'An achingly funny anti-hero' Daily Mail 'My comfort read. The best diaries ever written - with apologies to Samuel Pepys, Bridget Jones and me' ADAM KAY In the SIXTH book in Sue Townsend's hilarious and iconic series, Adrian, Leicester's most unlikely ex-con, faces the nit-infested reality of being a single parent . . . __________ Monday January 3, 2000 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 . . . The 'same age as Jesus when he died', Adrian Mole has become a martyr: a single-father bringing up two young boys in an uncaring world. With the ever-unattainable Pandora pursuing her ambition to become Labour's first female PM; his over-achieving half-brother Brett sponging off him; and literary success elusive, Adrian tries to make ends meet and find a purpose. But little does he realise that his own modest life is about to come to the attention of those charged with policing The War Against Terror . . . __________ 'One of the great comic creations of our time. Almost every page of his diaries bring a smile to the face' Scotsman 'The funniest person in the world' Caitlin Moran

Author : Sue Townsend
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141938332

Get Book

The Queen and I by Sue Townsend Pdf

The Royals, they're just like us... The Queen and I is a hilarious satire on modern Britain and an exploration of what it really means to be human, by the bestselling author of the Adrian Mole series THE MONARCHY HAS BEEN DISMANTLED When a Republican party wins the General Election, their first act in power is to strip the royal family of their assets and titles and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands. Exchanging Buckingham Palace for a two-bedroomed semi in Hell Close (as the locals dub it), caviar for boiled eggs, servants for a social worker named Trish, the Queen and her family learn what it means to be poor among the great unwashed. But is their breeding sufficient to allow them to rise above their changed circumstance or deep down are they really just like everyone else? Bestselling author Sue Townsend has been Britain's favourite comic writer for over three decades. 'No other author could imagine this so graphically, demolish the institution so wittily and yet leave the family with its human dignity intact' The Times 'Absorbing, entertaining ... the funniest thing in print since Adrian Mole' Ruth Rendell, Daily Telegraph 'Kept me rolling about until the last page' Daily Mail Sue Townsend is Britain's favourite comic author. Her hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books, The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 553⁄4), Number Ten, Ghost Children, The Queen and I, Queen Camilla and The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year, all of which are highly acclaimed bestsellers. She has also written numerous well-received plays. She lives in Leicester, where she was born and grew up.

Author : Sue Townsend
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780718196127

Get Book

The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend Pdf

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. ________ '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

Author : Sue Townsend
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141034737

Get Book

Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend Pdf

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?

Author : Sue Townsend
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780718196745

Get Book

The Adrian Mole Collection by Sue Townsend Pdf

The hilarious, bestselling follow-ups to Sue Townsend's The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and 3/4 : The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole and Adrian Mole: The Wilderness together in one volume. Sunday July 18th. My father announced at breakfast that he is going to have a vasectomy. I pushed my sausages away untouched. Charting nearly ten years in the life of Adrian Mole, from his increasingly troubled adolescence and schooling to his first job as newt counter for the DoE, from his parents' marital troubles to his own difficult relationship with Pandora, from the failure of his early poems to the even grander failure of his epic novels, these three novels in one volume provide a hilarious portrait of one young man's coming of age. 'He will be remembered some day as one of England's great diarists. No matter what your troubles may be Adrian Mole is sure to make you feel better' Evening Standard

Author : Sue Townsend
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241960165

Get Book

Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend Pdf

Adrian Mole is thirty-four and three quarters, almost officially middle-aged, when Mr Blair tells Parliament that weapons of mass destruction can be deployed in forty-five minutes and can reach Cyprus. Adrian is worried that he might not get a refund on his holiday. But that?s not all that is bothering him. There?s his odd girlfriend Marigold who has become distressingly New Age. And his son Glenn who is in Deepcut Barracks. Would Mr Blair have been quite so keen if it had been his son manning a roadblock?

Author : Sue Townsend
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0749707658

Get Book

True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Susan Lilian Townsend by Sue Townsend Pdf

Author : Sue Townsend
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Mole, Adrian (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 0749311207

Get Book

Adrian Mole from Minor to Major by Sue Townsend Pdf

All the Mole diaries in one volume, including material from the mature Adrian.

Author : Sue Townsend
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062004697

Get Book

The Adrian Mole Diaries by Sue Townsend Pdf

Adrian Mole faces the same agonies that life sets before most adolescents: trouble s with girls, school, parents, and an uncaring world. The difference, though, between young Master Mole and his peers is that this British lad keeps a diary—an earnest chronicle of longing and disaster that has charmed more than five million readers since its two-volume initial publication. From teenaged Adrian’s anguished adoration of a lovely, mercurial schoolmate to his view of his parents’ constantly creaking relationship to his heartfelt but hilarious attempts at cathartic verse, here is an outrageous triumph of deadpan—and deadly accurate—satire. ABBA, Princess Di’s wedding, street punks, Monty Python, the Falklands campaign . . . all the cultural pageantry of a keenly observed era marches past the unique perspective of Sue Townsend’s brilliant comic creation: A . Mole, the unforgettable lad whose self-absorption only gets funnier as his life becomes more desperate.

Author : Sue Townsend
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002383813

Get Book

Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major by Sue Townsend Pdf

All the mole diaries plus the further diaries for 1989-1990.

Author : Charlotte Gill
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781553657927

Get Book

Eating Dirt by Charlotte Gill Pdf

Charlotte Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in Canadian forests. In this book, she examines the environmental impact of logging and celebrates the value of forests from a perspective of some one whose work caught them between environmentalists and loggers.

Author : Sue Townsend
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141925479

Get Book

Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years by Sue Townsend Pdf

'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 . . . __________ 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