The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾

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He's still writing bloody awful poetry which, at 13 3/4 was amusing, it's rather less so at age 20 (and 8 months, which he still finds it necessary to add.

This classic collection about troubled teen, Adrian Mole, by Sue Townsend is a popular series that’s been loved by young adults for decades. However, in an interview on Leicester hospital station Radio Fox on 5 June 2008, Townsend said that she was in fact writing a new Mole book entitled The Prostrate Years, which was released in 2009.Adrian Mole continues to struggle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life in this second volume of his secret diary. The first two books appealed to many readers as a realistic and humorous treatment of the inner life of an adolescent boy, and capturing the zeitgeist of the UK during the Thatcher period. Other cancelled products: If you want to cancel products that are not damaged or incorrectly supplied, then you must inform us of this within seven working days following the date of receipt in accordance with the Distance Selling Regulations or otherwise as soon as possible. Adrian Mole's painfully frank diary offers a glimpse into the tormented life of a 'misunderstood intellectual’ as he attempts to navigate the challenges posed by his parents' unhappy marriage, being a bully-magnet, acne and unrequited love. I feel sorry for Roderick Mills, who was tasked with designing the new covers, because the original cover (the bathroom mirror with a shaving kit and Noddy toothbrush, beautifully demonstrating the dichotomies inherent within a youth becoming a man) is rightly iconic – something that is tacitly admitted by including it on the inside cover of the new Secret Diary.

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Adrian Mole: The Lost Years includes The True Confessions and The Wilderness Years, and the bonus story "Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians". A year and a half is inexplicably 'lost' before the next update, and the time line also seems to have gone wandering - a year and a half has passed according to the dates, but only six months according to the diary itself. Registered address: Unit 5, Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, LE5 3EF, United kingdom.

Sue said she never visualised Adrian facially; it wasn’t until she saw John Major (who was UK prime minister from 1990-97) on television that she finally realised what Adrian looked like. He gets caught in the crossfire between Putin's army and the Wolves, a rogue team of Ukraine partisans.

For over thirty years, after the publication of her instant and iconic bestseller The Secret Diaries of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ in 1982, she made us weep with laughter and pricked the nation's conscience. A quote from one of the inserted newspaper clippings dating from December 1983 explains the relative scarcity: "The only two signing sessions [Townsend] has held have been in Leicester she refused to embark on a national tour. Photograph: FremantleMedia Ltd / Rex Feature View image in fullscreen Gian Sammarco starred in the Thames TV version of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾. Adrian is asked out in science class by one Elizabeth Sally Broadway, her daughter with husband Colin Broadway, and Adrian and Pandora see a pantomime starring Carole Hayman as the Princess, Sue Pomeroy as Widow Twankey and Lou Wakefield as the cow; all three of whom were regular collaborators of Townsend’s work on stage.