Sue Townsend (36 kníh)
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Sue Townsend Adrian Mole and The Weapons of Mass Destruction ENAdrian 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…
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Sue Townsend Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction ENMarigold 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…
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Sue Townsend Adrian Mole and The Weapons of Mass Destruction ENThe brand new edition of the hilarious seventh book in the brilliant Adrian Mole series, Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction. 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…
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Sue Townsend Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years ENThe brand new edition of the hilarious fifth book in the Adrian Mole series, Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years. 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…
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Sue Townsend Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years ENThe brand new edition of the hilarious eighth book in the brilliant Adrian Mole series, Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years. Sunday July 1st. NO SMOKING DAY. A momentous day! Smoking in a public place or place of work is forbidden in England. Though if you a lunatic, a prisoner, an MP or a member of the Royal Family you are exempt. Adrian Mole is thirty-nine and a quarter. He lives in the country in a…
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Sue Townsend Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years ENAdrian 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…
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Sue Townsend Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years ENAdrian Mole has at last reached physical maturity, but he can't help roaming the pages of his diary like an untamed adolescent. Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora, he seeks solace in the arms of Bianca, a qualified hydraulic engineer masquerading as a waitress. Between his dishwashing job and completing his epic novel, 'Lo! The Flat Hills of My Homeland', Adrian hopes that fame and fortune will not keep him…
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Sue Townsend Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years ENThe brand new edition of the hilarious fourth book in the Adrian Mole series, Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years. 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…
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Sue Townsend Ghost Children ENSue Townsend, one of Britain's most-loved writers and the creator of the much-loved Adrian Mole series, tells a compassionate and gritty story of love and loss in Ghost Children. Gripping and disturbing. Utterly absorbing (Independent). 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…
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Sue Townsend Growing Pains of Adrian Mole ENThe troubled teenager 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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Sue Townsend Growing Pains of Adrian Mole ENThe brand new edition of the hilarious, bestselling follow-up to The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and 3/4 , Sue Townsend's The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole. 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…
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Sue Townsend Hořké zrání Adriana Molea CZPokračování populárního Tajného deníku Adriana Molea staví svého hrdinu, obtíženého nelehkým údělem nepochopeného a vysmívaného intelektuála v obyčejné středoanglické rodině, před nová rodinná, milostná i literární trápení. Právě uprostřed čekání na přírůstek do rodiny přichází nová krize ve vztahu mezi rodiči, závěrečné zkoušky se kvapem blíží a citová nejistota a obavy z nedostatku sexuálních zkušeností jen…
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Sue Townsend Hořké zrání Adriana MoleaPokračování i u nás populárního Tajného deníku Adriana Molea. Adrinaovi je patnáct a s věkem jako by problémů přibývalo. Uprostřed čekání na přírůstek do rodiny přichází nová krize ve vztahu mezi rodiči, závěrečné zkoušky se...
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Sue Townsend Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole 1999-2001 ENThe brand new edition of the hilarious fourth book in the Adrian Mole series, Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years. 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…
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Sue Townsend Number Ten ENPrime 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…
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Sue Townsend Number Ten ENEdward 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. 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.
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Sue Townsend Pravdivá zpověď Adriana MoleaKniha představuje čtenářům stručné zápisky, jež si náš známý adolescent smutné postavy pořizoval v šestiletém období 1984–1991, kdy již překonal své hořké zrání, ale do těch pravých let v divočině velkého světa mu ještě něco scházelo...
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Sue Townsend Pravdivá zpověď Adriana MoleaKniha představuje čtenářům stručné zápisky, jež si náš známý adolescent smutné postavy pořizoval v šestiletém období 1984–1991, kdy již překonal své hořké zrání, ale do těch pravých let v divočině velkého světa mu...
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Sue Townsend Queen and I ENWhen a Republican party wins the General Election, their first act in power is to strip the royal family of their titles and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands. Exchanging Buckingham Palace for a semi, the royals learn what it means to be poor among the great unwashed.
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Sue Townsend Queen Camilla ENWhat 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…
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Sue Townsend Queen Camilla ENWhat 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…
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Sue Townsend Queen in Hell Close ENWhether in the guise of a thirteen and three-quarter year old adolescent, a transvestite PM or the Queen reduced to living on a council estate, Sue Townsend has been brilliantly satirizing British life for more than twenty years. Penguin publish all Townsend's hilarious Adrian Mole books and The Queen in Hell Close is an extract from The Queen and I, a brilliantly acerbic take on a Royal Family in dire straits.
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