Adrian Mole

Adrian Mole is a worrier. He is dogged by spots, cracks in his parents' marriage and misfortunes familiar to anyone over the age of 13. A 14 year old feminist, an 89 year old chain smoker and his spoilt best friend all help to lift Mole's moods. First book in the series.

Following The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (5433), this is another hilarious account of adolescence and puberty seen through the eyes of Adrian Mole. He is to experience love and the pangs of its loss, blind dates and neuroses - in short, all the agonies of growing up. Book 2 of the series.

Adrian Mole is an adult. At least that's what it says on his passport. But living at home, 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… Included here are two other less well-known diarists: Sue Townsend and Margaret Hilda Roberts, a rather ambitious grocer's daughter from Grantham. Book 3 of the series.

Adrian is now 23½. We follow the misunderstood genius of Middle England on a further stretch of his weary travels through the Valley of Rejection and Humiliation, in search of the sunny uplands of requited love and the publication of his novel. Book 4 of the series.

Sequel to: 'Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years' (3958). Now a celebrity chef and single parent, Mole returns to Leicester to vote for Dr Pandora Braithwaite, Labour Party candidate and love of his young life. Book 5 of the series.

Adrian Mole, now 38 and almost officially middle-aged, is working in an antiquarian bookshop. Despite finding solace in a literary life Adrian is worried; about whether or not he can get a refund on his holiday to Cyprus; about his engagement to Marigold Flowers; and about his failure to find a celebrity speaker for his writing group's Christmas dinner. Book 6 of the series.

Adrian Mole has entered early middle age and is now father to the grammatically challenged Glenn and William. His current worries include: indestructible head-lice; moral decline in The Archers; his desperate attachment to two therapists; a small earthquake in Leicester; and, perhaps most significantly, the dawn of a new millennium. Book 7 of the series.

When we last heard from Adrian, he had fallen in love with Daisy Flowers and they had embarked on a new life with their baby, Gracie. Fast-forward four years and Adrian's life is in turmoil again. Living in the Piggeries is far from ideal, middle age is beckoning and the ups and downs of parenthood are still plaguing him. Book 8 of the series.