Sue Townsend

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Title: Number Ten: Description:
Jack Spratt is a policeman on the door of Number Ten. When the Prime Minister decides that the only way to get closer to the men and women on the street is to travel around the country incognito and find out what they really think, he enlists Jack's help. Leaving his high-powered, ambitious wife to hold the fort, he and Jack set out. But neither can foresee how their extraordinary odyssey will impact on world affairs. Or their own lives.

Title: Number Ten: Description:
Number Ten goes behind the door of the famous residence in Britain in an hilarious new novel from Sue Townsend.

Title: The Queen And I: Description:
After some forty years on the throne of England, to be rehoused on a council estate in the Midlands comes as a shock to the Queen. In fact it is a nightmare. But when the People's Republican Party achieves an unexpected election victory - thanks to the subliminal brainwashing of the electorate by disaffected television technicians - their first act in government is to order the Royal Family to vacate Buckingham Palace and move into Hell Close. As the Aubusson rugs are cut to size and the odd salvaged Titian waits to be mounted on the anaglypta walls, the Royals gird themselves for their new life living next door to the working class.

Title: Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years: Description:
Adrian Mole is balding, he's bitter and he's back, this time aged 30¼. Working at the Hoi Polloy restaurant, Soho, where a typical menu includes: Heinz Tomato Soup, (with white bread floaters) Grey Lamb Chops Boiled Cabbage avec Dan Quayle Potatoes Dark Brown onion gravy Spotted Dick à la Clinton Bird's Eye Custard Cheddar Cheese, Cream Crackers Nescafé After Eight Mint he is spotted by a cable TV producer and ends up starring in a celebrity chef show celebrating offal. Though he may be older he is certainly no wiser, still passing his time by dreaming of Pandora (now a shining star in Tony Blair's New Government) after his marriage to a Nigerian beauty ends in tatters. But underneath the layers of experience and sophistication, fans of the Mole family will find the same dysfunctional mess that made Adrian's Secret Diary an instant bestseller--his young son is being brought up by his mother in Ashby-de-la- Zouch, his 16-year-old sister leaves home to live with her multiply pierced boyfriend and his father is bed- bound with manic depression. Adrian still makes constant lists of juvenile neuroses and concentrates on his penis activity to an unhealthy extent (it is when it reaches 0/10 he realises something has to be done). Townsend's trademark acerbic wit is still much in evidence; Zippo kissed my mother's hand and complimented her on the shirt she was wearing. 'Is it Vivienne Westwood?' he murmered. 'No', she muttered back. 'It's BhS'. 'You clever thing', he crooned. it is only the frames of reference that have changed. Occasionally verging on the corny ("I arrived at the Brent Cross shopping centre car-park, to find that my car had been towed away five days ago and was in a police compound somewhere in Purley. A £25 cab ride took me to the Purley gates …") true Mole fanatics will forgive Townsend her occasional excesses for the numerous laugh-out-loud moments that punctuate Adrian's existence as he blunders on towards middle age. Accessible, amusing and appealing, The Cappuccino Years see an Adrian who has survived the Growing Pains; thought better of True Confessions; is out of the Wilderness Years and is facing the only really important question that remains: Is Viagra cheating? --Lucie Naylor

Title: The Queen And I: Description:
A revolutionary British government orders the Queen to abdicate and the Royal family to vacate Buckingham Palace. Being rehoused on a council estate in the Midlands comes as a bit of a shock to Philip and Elizabeth. The intrusion of this family of "poshos" is a shock for their new neighbours too

Title: The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged Thirteen And Three Quarters: Description:
A humorous story first published in 1982, which chronicles the daily life of a teenage boy and all his problems

Title: Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years: Description:
Adrian Mole is balding, he's bitter and he's back, this time aged 30¼. Working at the Hoi Polloy restaurant, Soho, where a typical menu includes: Heinz Tomato Soup, (with white bread floaters) Grey Lamb Chops Boiled Cabbage avec Dan Quayle Potatoes Dark Brown onion gravy Spotted Dick à la Clinton Bird's Eye Custard Cheddar Cheese, Cream Crackers Nescafé After Eight Mint he is spotted by a cable TV producer and ends up starring in a celebrity chef show celebrating offal. Though he may be older he is certainly no wiser, still passing his time by dreaming of Pandora (now a shining star in Tony Blair's New Government) after his marriage to a Nigerian beauty ends in tatters. But underneath the layers of experience and sophistication, fans of the Mole family will find the same dysfunctional mess that made Adrian's Secret Diary an instant bestseller--his young son is being brought up by his mother in Ashby-de-la- Zouch, his 16-year-old sister leaves home to live with her multiply pierced boyfriend and his father is bed- bound with manic depression. Adrian still makes constant lists of juvenile neuroses and concentrates on his penis activity to an unhealthy extent (it is when it reaches 0/10 he realises something has to be done). Townsend's trademark acerbic wit is still much in evidence; Zippo kissed my mother's hand and complimented her on the shirt she was wearing. 'Is it Vivienne Westwood?' he murmered. 'No', she muttered back. 'It's BhS'. 'You clever thing', he crooned. it is only the frames of reference that have changed. Occasionally verging on the corny ("I arrived at the Brent Cross shopping centre car-park, to find that my car had been towed away five days ago and was in a police compound somewhere in Purley. A £25 cab ride took me to the Purley gates …") true Mole fanatics will forgive Townsend her occasional excesses for the numerous laugh-out-loud moments that punctuate Adrian's existence as he blunders on towards middle age. Accessible, amusing and appealing, The Cappuccino Years see an Adrian who has survived the Growing Pains; thought better of True Confessions; is out of the Wilderness Years and is facing the only really important question that remains: Is Viagra cheating? --Lucie Naylor

Title: The Public Confessions Of A Middle Aged Woman Aged 55 3 4: Description:
funny story by author of Adrian mole, more a biography

Title: Ghost Children: Description:
A compassionate and gritty examination of love and loss from one of Britain's most-loved writers. Seventeen years ago Angela Carr aborted an unwanted child. The father, Christopher Moore, was devastated by the loss. Unable to accept what had happened between them they went their separate ways. Years later, whilst walking his dog on the heath, a horrifying discovery compels Christopher to confront Angela about the past, and they discover, after all this time, that they still have strong feelings for one another. Can they be happy together at last? Or will the mistakes of the past eclipse their bright future?

Title: The Queen And I: Description:
A revolutionary British government orders the Queen to abdicate and the Royal family to vacate Buckingham Palace. Being rehoused on a council estate in the Midlands comes as a bit of a shock to Philip and Elizabeth. The intrusion of this family of "poshos" is a shock for their new neighbours too.

Title: The Growing Pains Of Adrian Mole: Description:
Sequal to The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and 3 quarters

Title: The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged Thirteen And Three Quarters: Description:
A humorous story first published in 1982, which chronicles the daily life of a teenage boy and all his problems.

Title: The Growing Pains Of Adrian Mole (a Methuen Paperback): Description:
An enthralling sequel to the hillarious, touching and hugely popular Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4.

Title: Adrian Mole And The Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Description:
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

Title: Adrian Mole And The Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Description:
He's back. Mole, now an angst-ridden 38, is still coping with life in middle-England as a single parent to Glen and William, and battling his own particular weapon of mass destruction. Marigold and I quarrelled last night as to which of us has the most monstrous mother and only stopped when Marigold screamed, You couldn't find my clitoris if you were led there by Sir Ranulph Fiennes. After she'd slammed out I consulted The Joy of Sex' and discovered that I'd probably been playing too much attention to relevantly unimportant bits of her genitalia whilst ignoring the clitoris, yet it had been staring me in the face for the last eighteen months. Glenn rang at 2 am from somewhere in Iraq to say that his standard issue army boots had melted in the desert heat and could I get Parcel Force to rush him some size ten Timberlands.

Title: True Confessions Of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts And Susan Lilian Townsend: Description:
These further writings take Adrian Mole from the ages of 16 to 21, describing the young diarist's first job as a librarian, and his later role at the Department of the Environment, where he struggles manfully to preserve the Earth's ozone layer.

Title: Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years: Description:
Adrian Mole, now aged 23 and 3/4, is a gloomy lodger living in the box room of the brilliant and beautiful Pandora's Oxford flat, spurned and barely tolerated by his former boyhood sweetheart. He is still working at the Department of the Environment with special responsibility for newts.

Title: Ghost Children: Description:
Angela aborts an unwanted child. 17 years later, the child's father, Christopher, cannot forget his grief. He seeks out Angela to know the truth about the abortion. Angela and Christopher rekindle a passionate relationship which contains the seed of a dangerous new life together.

Title: Number Ten: Description:
Prime Minister Edward Clare and his wife Adele Floret-Clare live at Number 10 Downing Street. PC Jack Sprat is the policeman who stands outside on the door. Five years ago, Edward Clare was voted into Number 10 after a landslide election result. But now, things are starting to go wrong. The love has gone. The people are turning. In short, it's a very real problem. Edward worries about this. All he wants is for the people of Clare's Britain to like him, and for them to be happy. He enlists the help of Jack Sprat and together they travel round the country incognito, ending up at Jack's childhood home. His mother Norma lives in Leicester, and her address is Number 10 too, but that's where the similarity ends...

Title: Adrian Mole And The Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Description:
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

Title: Queen Camilla: Description:
The UK has come over all republican. The royal family exciled to an exclusion zone with the other villians and spongers. And to cap it all, the Queen has threatened to abdicate. Yet Prince Charles is more interested in root vegtables than reigning . . . unless his wife Camilla can be queen in a newly restored monarchy.