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Showing 1 - 12 of 38 results for “sue townsend”
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  • Adrian Mole, The Early Years

    The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾ and The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

    by Sue Townsend ...
    Series series The Adrian Mole Series
    British adolescent angst has never been so "laugh-out-loud funny" ( The New York Times)—the journey begins with these first two books in the heartbreakingly hilarious series .Commiserate with "one of literature's most endearing figures" ( The Observer)—a sharp-witted, pining, and achingly honest underdog of great expectations and dwindling patience who knows all (or believes he does) and tells ... Read more

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  • Adrian Mole, The Later Years

    True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years, and Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years

    by Sue Townsend ...
    Series series The Adrian Mole Series
    As his laugh-out-loud secret diary extends into his later teens and young adulthood, everyone's favorite angsty Brit remains "a brilliant comic creation" ( The Times, London).Continue to commiserate with "one of literature's most endearing figures"—a sharp-witted, pining, and achingly honest underdog of great expectations and dwindling patience who knows all (or believes he does) and tells all ( ... Read more

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  • The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4

    by Sue Townsend ...
    Series series The Adrian Mole Series
    British adolescent angst has never been so "laugh-out-loud funny" as in this first encounter with a sharp-witted, pining, and achingly honest underdog ( The New York Times).Perhaps when I am famous and my diary is discovered, people will understand the torment of being a 13¾-year-old undiscovered intellectual.Adrian Mole is approaching fourteen, and like all radical intellectuals he must amass his ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobooks

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  • The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

    by Sue Townsend ...
    Series series The Adrian Mole Series
    "Townsend's wit is razor sharp" as her self-proclaimed intellectual adolescent hero continues his hilarious angst-filled secret diary ( The Mirror).I can ' t wait until I am fully mature and can make urban conversation with intellectuals.Growing up among inferiors in Great Britain isn't easy for a sensitive fifteen-year-old "poet of the Midlands" like Adrian Mole, considering everything in the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction

    by Sue Townsend ...
    “Townsend’s wickedly funny novels are another reason to be grateful for the right of free speech.”—San Francisco Chronicle“Townsend is [a] comic genius.”—The Village Voice (a Top Shelf selection)“The latest careening satire to emerge from Sue Townsend’s wickedly literary rocket launcher, combining love, politics and credit-card debacle into a not-to-be-missed novel.”—The Seattle Times“Complex, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Women, Power and Politics: Now

    Five plays

    by Joy Wilkinson, Various, Zinnie Harris, Bola Agbaje, Sam Holcroft, Sue Townsend ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    A collection of wide-ranging and ambitious short plays reflecting the complexities of women and political power in the United Kingdom.The five plays in this volume look at the impact and influence that women have today.In Acting Leader by Joy Wilkinson, Margaret Beckett finds herself Acting Leader of the Opposition after the sudden death of John Smith.The Panel by Zinnie Harris is about the power ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years

    by Sue Townsend ...
    Series Book 8 - The Adrian Mole Series
    The final chapter in the beloved chronicles of an angsty Brit begun in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ is "a tour de force by a comic genius" ( Daily Mail).Am I turning into one of those middle-aged men who think the country has gone to the dogs and that there has been no decent music since Abba?Hard to believe! Adrian Mole is pushing forty, a beleaguered bookseller looking back through ... Read more

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  • Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years

    by Sue Townsend ...
    Series Book 4 - The Adrian Mole Series
    Can an adult still have a secret diary? Everyone's favorite angsty adolescent Brit is now a tormented twentysomething and still "a brilliant comic creation" ( The Times).Question: What have I done with my life? Answer: Nothing.At 23¾ years old, Adrian Mole is now an adult and almost prepared. On the upside: He's fallen for a perfectly lovely Nigerian waitress; he's seeing a therapist so as to talk ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years

    by Sue Townsend ...
    Series Book 5 - The Adrian Mole Series
    The "wickedly satirical, mad, ferociously farcical [and] subversive" angsty Brit of secret diary fame careens into his thirties ( Daily Mail).I expect that by tomorrow I will have embellished the story and given myself a heroic status I do not deserve . . .Right now the truth is harrowing enough for aging, impotent intellectual Adrian Mole: He's soon to be divorced; he hasn't a clue what to do ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999–2001

    by Sue Townsend ...
    Series Book 7 - The Adrian Mole Series
    "The trouble with trying to read passages from the Adrian Mole diaries aloud is that you find yourself laughing so hard you can ' t go on" ( Kansas City Star).I wish that I could relate that I have found happiness and contentment . . . but, alas, I cannot —but that is another story . . ."Probably the most successful comic literary creation of the past two decades" vents his justified rag... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Great Celestial Cow

    by Sue Townsend ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    A play by one of Britain's best-selling writersWhen Sita and her children leave India to join her husband in England, she is forced to sell her cow, but she keeps her milking bucket in the hope that she will be able to buy another cow in Leicester. But England is nothing like she expected: faced with prejudice from the English and restrictions of tradition from her family, Sita clings to the dream ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole

    by Sue Townsend ...
    Series Book 3 - The Adrian Mole Series
    As his secret diary extends into his later teen years, the angsty Brit remains "part Holden Caulfield, part . . . B ertie Wooster " and all Adrian ( The New York Times ).Send my diaries back. I would hate them to fall into unfriendly , possibly commercial hands. I am afraid of blackma... ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks