Sue Townsend
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Adrian Mole series
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾For the TV-series, see The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ is the first book in the Adrian Mole series of comedic fiction, written by Sue Townsend. The book is written in a diary style, and focuses on the worries and regrets of a teenager who believes himself...
(1982), her best selling book, and the best-selling new British fiction book of the 1980s. - The Growing Pains of Adrian MoleThe Growing Pains of Adrian MoleThe Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, a novel by Sue Townsend, is the 2nd book in the Adrian Mole series, following on from The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾. It focuses on the worries and regrets of a teenage intellectual...
(1984) - The True Confessions of Adrian Albert MoleThe True Confessions of Adrian Albert MoleThe True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Susan Lillian Townsend is the third book in the Adrian Mole series, written by Sue Townsend. It focuses on the worries and regrets of a teenage intellectual...
(1989) - Adrian Mole From Minor to Major (1991) is an omnibus of the first three, and includes as a bonus the specially written Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians.
- Adrian Mole: The Wilderness YearsAdrian Mole: The Wilderness YearsAdrian Mole: The Wilderness Years is the fourth book in the Adrian Mole series, written by Sue Townsend. It focuses on the worries of the, now, adult Mole. The book was first published in 1993 by Methuen...
(1993) - Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino YearsAdrian Mole: The Cappuccino YearsAdrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years is the fifth book in the Adrian Mole series, written by Sue Townsend. The book was first published in 1999 by Michael Joseph. It is set from April 30, 1997 until May 2, 1998. Adrian is 30 years of age...
(1999) - Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass DestructionAdrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass DestructionPublished in 2004 by Penguin Books, Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction is Sue Townsend's sixth full Adrian Mole novel . It is set in 2002/3 and Adrian is 33¾ years of age...
(2004) - The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999–2001Adrian MoleAdrian Albert Mole is the fictional protagonist in a series of books by English author Sue Townsend. The character first appeared in a BBC Radio 4 play in 1982. The books are written in the form of a diary, with some additional content such as correspondence...
(2008) - Adrian Mole: The Prostrate YearsAdrian Mole: The Prostrate YearsAdrian Mole: The Prostrate Years is the ninth installment in the popular Adrian Mole series. It was released on November 5, 2009.- Synopsis :...
(2009)
Other novels
- Rebuilding CoventryRebuilding CoventryRebuilding Coventry is a 1988 novel written by Sue Townsend about a woman from Middle England who is accused of murdering her neighbour and goes on the run to London, and captures the zeitgeist of England in the 1980s....
(1988) - The Queen and I (1992), a story about the British royal familyBritish Royal FamilyThe British Royal Family is the group of close relatives of the monarch of the United Kingdom. The term is also commonly applied to the same group of people as the relations of the monarch in her or his role as sovereign of any of the other Commonwealth realms, thus sometimes at variance with...
living a "normal" life on an urban housing estate following a republican revolution. - Ghost Children (1997), a novel treating the issues of bereavement, child abuse and women's self-esteem in relation to body image.
- Number Ten (2002)
- Queen CamillaQueen CamillaQueen Camilla is a novel by the British author Sue Townsend.It was published in the UK on 26 October 2006 by Penguin Books and is a follow-up to her novel The Queen and I...
(2006)
Plays
- Womberang (Soho Poly – 1979)
- The Ghost of Daniel Lambert (Leicester Haymarket Theatre – 1981) Theatre closed in January 2007
- Dayroom (Croydon Warehouse Theatre – 1981)
- Captain Christmas and the Evil Adults (Phoenix Arts Theatre – 1982) now known as the Phoenix Arts CentrePhoenix Arts CentreUpper Brown Street is a theatre in the city centre of Leicester, England. The centre hosted live shows and films of the arthouse and world cinema genres. In 2010 it was reborn as an important music training and performance venue under a new name.- History :In the 1963 Leicester City Council ...
- Bazaar and Rummage (Royal Court Theatre – 1982)
- Groping for Words (Croydon Warehouse – 1983)
- The Great Celestial Cow (Royal Court Theatre and tour – 1984)
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13-The Play (Leicester Phoenix – 1984) now known as Phoenix Arts CentrePhoenix Arts CentreUpper Brown Street is a theatre in the city centre of Leicester, England. The centre hosted live shows and films of the arthouse and world cinema genres. In 2010 it was reborn as an important music training and performance venue under a new name.- History :In the 1963 Leicester City Council ...
- Disneyland it Ain't (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs – 1989)
- Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes (Library Theatre, Manchester – 1989)
- The Queen and IThe Queen and IThe Queen and I is a 1992 novel/play written by Sue Townsend.The setting is the UK, after the 1992 General Election, where the House of Windsor has just been deprived of its Royal status by the People's Republican Party and its members are made to live like normal Britons.After a People's...
(Vaudeville Theatre – 1994, toured Australia in the summer of 1996 and was entitled The Royals Down Under)
Non-fiction
- Mr Bevan's Dream: Why Britain Needs Its Welfare State (1989)
- The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (2001)