Sue Townsend

...Adam Foulds's The Quickening Maze (Jonathan Cape, GBP12.99). And at the lighter end of things I recommend the latest volume of Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole diaries, The Prostrate Years (Michael Joseph, GBP18.99), Elinor Lipman's The Family Man...

In this article: Chatto & Windus, J. M. Coetzee, Virago, Thomas Pynchon, Roberto Bolano, and A S Byatt

...Mole faces up to his own mortality in a bleakly funny new volume of diaries, says Lorna Bradbury Adrian Mole: the Prostrate Years by Sue Townsend For those of us who have grown up with Adrian Mole, from the agonies of adolescence in The...

In this article: Adrian Mole, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Potato, Tax, God, Cancer, and Pandora Braithwaite

...with the scotsman.com site. To read this article in full you must be registered with the site. AN HOUR before I'm due to meet Sue Townsend in the London offices of her publishers, I get a call. She would like to see me at her hotel...

In this article: Adrian Mole, Leicester, Cancer, Credit crunch, Hiccup, Morphine, and Penguin

...no blessing, and the effects follow the sisters into adulthood. A disturbing first novel. Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years by Sue Townsend Adrian's life is almost an alternative history of our times. He's coming up to the big Four O now,...

In this article: Adrian Mole, First World War, Cancer, and William Blake

I've written before here about the impact that Sue Townsend's comic Adrian Mole novels have had on my life since I was a young teenager, so it'll come as no surprise to learn that I was completely delighted by the latest volume, Adrian Mole:...

In this article: Adrian Mole, EU, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Pandora Braithwaite

Fork Lift Accident Brings Down The Warehouse Video (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)... More. I've written before here about the impact that Sue Townsend's comic Adrian Mole novels have had on my life since I was a young teenager, so it'll come as no...

In this article: Lipitor, Adrian Mole, Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel Maddow, US, and Phoenix

...Evening News site. To read this article in full you must be registered with the site. Adrian Mole a The Prostrate Years by Sue Townsend is published in hardback by Michael Joseph/Penguin, priced AGBP18.99. Available November 5. It's...

In this article: Adrian Mole, Cancer, Recession, Penguin, Pandora Braithwaite, Taleban, and Jeremy Kyle

...(b. in Sheffield - though at the posh end) was caught out with a bit of snobbery once. He'd met Sue Townsend of Adrian Mole fame and said in his diary: 'She lives in Leicester and is quite happy about it.' On the whole, if as I do you live...

In this article: Roger Lewis, Simon Cowell, Rosie Boycott, London, Michael Palin, Soup, South Wales, and Boris Johnson

...today - only eight will be offered counselling. RNIB's campaign - called Lost and Found - has the support of best-selling author, Sue Townsend who is now blind. The government says it is committed to working with disabled people,...

In this article: Department of Health, Suicide, Royal National Institute of Blind People, Adrian Mole, and UK

...and doubts of his creator, Sue Townsend. She talks to Christina Patterson Friday, 28 November 2008 I've got this big fear," says Sue Townsend, "of being boring." Ah yes, well, you would have, wouldn't you? If you had created a...

In this article: Adrian Mole, Jeremy Paxman, John Updike, God, IKEA, Jeffrey Bernard, and Best interests