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Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years
Автор: Townsend Sue Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20142013-06-15
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It's 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...
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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4
Автор: Townsend Sue Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20152013-06-28
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Friday January 2nd I felt rotten today. It's my mother's fault for singing My Way at two o'clock in the morning at the top of the stairs. Just my luck to have a mother like her. There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics. Next year I could be in a children's home. Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Writing candidly about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual', Adrian's painfully honest diary is still hilarious and compelling reading thirty years after it first appeared.
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The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole
Автор: Townsend Sue Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20152013-06-28
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It's 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 ever-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...
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The True Confessions of Adrian Mole
Автор: Townsend Sue Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 декабря 20142014-10-20
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It's Monday, June 13th. I had a good, proper look at myself in the mirror tonight. I've always wanted to look clever, but at the age of twenty years and three months I have to admit that I look like a person who has never even heard of Jung or Updike. Adrian Mole is an adult. At least that's what it says on his passport. But living at home, clinging to his threadbare cuddly rabbit 'Pinky', working as a paper pusher for the DoE and pining for the love of his life, Pandora, has proved to him that adulthood isn't quite what he expected. Still, without the slings and arrows of modern life what else would an intellectual poet have to write about... Included here are two other less well-known diarists: Sue Townsend and Margaret Hilda Roberts, a rather ambitious grocer's daughter from Grantham.
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The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
Автор: Townsend Sue Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20152014-05-18
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It's 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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Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction
Автор: Townsend Sue Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20152014-07-21
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Wednesday April 2nd My birthday. I am thirty-five today. I am officially middle-aged. It is all downhill from now. A pathetic slide towards gum disease, wheelchair ramps and death. Adrian Mole is middle-aged but still scribbling. Working as a bookseller and living in Leicester's Rat Wharf; finding time to write letters of advice to Tim Henman and Tony Blair; locked in mortal combat with a vicious swan called Gielgud; measuring his expanding bald spot; and trying to win-over the voluptuous Daisy... Adrian yearns for a better more meaningful world. But he's not ready to surrender his pen yet...
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Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
Автор: Townsend Sue Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20132014-10-27
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It's Wednesday, August 13th. Here I am again — in my old bedroom. Older, wiser, but with less hair, unfortunately. The atmosphere in this house is very bad. The dog looks permanently exhausted. Every time the phone rings my mother snatches it up as though a kidnapper were on the line. 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 — AA Gill) and celebrated (will he be the nation's first celebrity offal chef?). And the love of his life, Pandora Braithwaite, is the newly elected MP for Ashby-de-la-Zouch — one of Blair's Babes. He is frustrated, disappointed and undersexed. But a letter from Adrian's past is about to change everything...
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The Queen and I
Автор: Townsend Sue Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20132017-08-24
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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?
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Ghost Children
Автор: Townsend Sue Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20152015-09-02
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Seventeen years ago Angela Carr aborted an unwanted child. The child's father, Christopher Moore, was devastated by the loss and he retreated from the world. Unable to accept what had happened between them both went their separate ways. However, when Christopher makes a horrifying discovery whilst out walking his dog on the heath he finds that he is compelled to confront Angela about the past. As they start seeing each another again can they avoid the mistakes of the past? And will their future together be eclipsed by those mistakes of yesterday? A compelling fable of our times, Ghost Children is a compassionate and gritty examination of love and loss from one of Britain's most-loved writers, Sue Townsend.
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Number Ten
Автор: Townsend Sue Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20152013-06-28
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Behind the doors of the most famous address in the country, all is not well.Edward Clare was voted into Number Ten after a landslide election victory. But a few years later and it is all going wrong. The love of the people is gone. The nation is turning against him.Panicking, Prime Minister Clare enlists the help of Jack Sprat, the policeman on the door of No 10, and sets out to discover what the country really thinks of him. In disguise, they venture into the great unknown: the mean streets of Great Britain.And for the first time in years, the Prime Minister experiences everything life in this country has to offer — an English cream tea, the kindness of strangers, waiting for trains that never come and treatment in a hospital — and at last he remembers some of things he once really cared about... 'Wickedly entertaining. There is a gem on nearly every page. Nothing escapes Townsend's withering pen. Satirical, witty, observant... a clever book'. Observer. A delight. Genuinely funny... compassion shines through the unashamedly ironic social commentary.' Guardian' Poignant, hilarious, heart-rending, devastating.' New Statesman' Hilarious. Sue Townsend's laughter is infectious. John Mortimer, Sunday Telegraph Books of the Year.
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The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman
Автор: Townsend Sue Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20132015-04-27
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Enter the world of Susan Lilian Townsend — sun — worshippers, work-shy writers, garden centre lovers and those in search of a good time are all welcome... This sparkling collection of Sue Townsend's hilarious non-fiction covers everything from hosepipe bans to Spanish restaurants, from writer's block to slug warfare, from slob holidays to the banning of beige. These funny, perceptive and touching pieces reveal Sue, ourselves and the nation in an extraordinary new light. Sit back and chortle away as one of Britain's most popular and acclaimed writers takes a feather to your funny bone.
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Queen Camilla
Автор: Townsend Sue Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 442 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20172014-07-18
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What if being Royal was a crime? The UK has come over all republican. The Royal Family 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. But when a scoundrel who claims to be the couple's secret lovechild offers to take the crown off their hands, the stage is set for a right Royal showdown.And the question for Camilla (and rest of the country) will be: Queen of the vegetable patch or Queen of England?'Wickedly satirical, mad, ferociously farcical, subversive. Great stuff. Daily Mail 'Brilliantly satirical. Evening Standard One of our finest living comic writers. The Times'Brilliantly funny. Closer'Another fantastic read from Townsend. OK!
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Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years
Автор: Townsend Sue Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20132014-10-27
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Adrian Mole is thirty-nine and a quarter. He lives in the country in a semi-detached converted pigsty with his wife Daisy and their daughter. His parents George and Pauline live in the adjoining pigsty. But all is not well. The secondhand bookshop in which Adrian works is threatened with closure. The spark has fizzled out of his marriage. His mother is threatening to write her autobiography (A Girl Called Shit). And Adrian's nightly trips to the lavatory have become alarmingly frequent. As his troubles multiply, a drunken call to old flame Dr Pandora Braithwaite (BA, MA, PhD, MP and Junior Minister) awakens memories of what might have been and causes Adrian to wonder: is Pandora the only one who can possibly save him?
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Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
Автор: Townsend Sue Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20172014-10-17
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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. Eva's refusal to behave like a dutiful wife and mother soon upsets everyone but she insists on staying in bed. And then the strangest things start to happen. A funny and touching novel from Britain's funniest writer for over 30 years.
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Rebuilding Coventry
Автор: Townsend Sue Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20162016-09-10
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When Midlands housewife Coventry Dakin kills her neighbour in a wild bid to prevent him from strangling his wife, she goes on the run. Finding herself alone and friendless in London she tries to lose herself in the city's maze of streets. There, she meets a bewildering cast of eccentric characters.
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Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction
Автор: Townsend Sue Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 460 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20092010-02-29
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Adrian Mole's pen is scribbling for the twenty-first century. Working as a bookseller and living in Leicester's Rat Wharf; finding time to write letters of advice to Tim Henman and Tony Blair; locked in mortal combat with a vicious swan called Gielgud; measuring his expanding bald spot; and trying to escape the clutches of Marigold and win-over her voluptuous sister Daisy ... Adrian still yearns for a better more meaningful world. And he's not ready to surrender his pen yet ...
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Adrian Mole: Cappuccino Years
Автор: Townsend Sue Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2007 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20082009-07-11
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Now 301/4, Adrian's still worrying: Can he be a good father? Is Viagra cheating? Why won't the BBC produce 'The White Van', his serial killer comedy? Will he find the fulfilment he seeks as celebrity offal chef, single parent and celibate novelist? Is there a place for Adrian Mole in Blair's Brave New Britain? It is 1 May 1997. Now a celebrity chef at Hoi Polloi restaurant, Soho (and still an unpublished novelist), Mole has returned to the Midlands to cast his vote for the ravishing and Chanel-suited Labour Party candidate, Dr Pandora Braithwaite, the love of his young life. Back in Leicester, everyone in the Mole household expects Tony Blair's election to bring them wealth, fulfilment and personal happiness. For 17 Wisteria Walk is a seething mass of late twentieth-century angst: Pauline Mole. Mother, 53, feels she has wasted her life; no letters after her name and only a 'Mrs' in front of it. Would an extramarital affair with Ivan Braithwaite (55, ripe for the cull) lift her millennial gloom? George Mole. Father, 50, out of a job, plagued by piles but scared of the operation. Also having a problem with his erectile function. Is finding it difficult to get out of bed to vote. Rosie Mole. Sister. 15-year-old vamp. adrian suspects she may have Tourette's syndrome. Glenn Bott. Juvenile Stalker, 12. Adrian's love child? Or is Barry Kent his dad? New Dog. Age unknown. Disappointing substitute for the Old Dog, who died after a long and record-breaking veterinary experience.
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The Growing Pains Of Adrian Mole
Автор: Townsend Sue Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2002 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20092005-04-22
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Monday November 29 My mother’s gone right off me since Rosie was born. She was never a particularly attentive mother – I always had to clean my own shoes. But just lately I have been feeling emotionally deprived. If I turn out to be mentally deranged in adult life, it will all be my mother’s fault. Troubled teenager 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 between the ups and downs of his relationship with the divine Pandora and worrying that his genius is going unrecognized, Adrian Mole chronicles the pains and pleasures of a misspent adolescence.
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Number Ten
Автор: Townsend Sue Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2003 Страниц: 324 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20092005-05-26
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Behind the doors of the most famous address in the country, all is not well. Five years ago, Edward Clare was voted in to Number Ten after a landslide election result. But things are starting to go wrong. The love has gone. The people are turning. Leaving behind his superwoman wife Adele, Prime Minister Clare enlists the help of Jack Sprat, a policeman on the door of Number Ten, and sets out to discover what the country really thinks of him. Sneaking out of the back door incognito, they venture into the great unknown: the mean streets of Great Britain. For the first time in years, the Prime Minister experiences everything life in his country has to offer — an English cream tea, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and the kindness of strangers, as well as having to wait for trains and undergo treatment in a hospital — and remembers some of the things he'd forgotten he used to really care about ...
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The Public Confessions Of A Middle-Aged Woman
Автор: Townsend Sue Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20092005-03-18
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Enter the world of Susan Lilian Townsend – sun-worshippers, work-shy writers, garden centre lovers and those in search of a good time are all welcome … Over the last decade, Sue Townsend has written a monthly column for Sainsbury’s Magazine, covering everything from hosepipe bans and Spanish restaurants to writer’s block and the posh middle-aged woman she once met who’d never heard of Winnie-the-Pooh. Now collected together for the first time, these funny, perceptive and touching pieces make up this brilliant new book from one of Britain’s most popular and acclaimed writers.
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