ADRIAN MOLE
The Collected Poems
Pandora!
I adore ya
I implore ye
Don’t ignore me.
For the first time in a single volume, the collected poems of misunderstood intellectual and tortured poet Adrian Mole.
‘I ruthlessly exploited Adrian. But he can’t afford to sue me.’
Sue Townsend
The day her twins leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. For seventeen years she’s wanted to yell at the world, ‘Stop! I want to get off’. Finally, this is her chance.
Her husband Brian, an astronomer having an unsatisfactory affair, is upset. Who will cook his dinner? Eva, he complains, is attention seeking. But word of Eva’s defiance spreads.
Legions of fans, believing she is protesting, gather in the street. While Alexander the white van man brings tea, toast and sympathy. And from this odd but comforting place Eva begins to see both herself and the world very, very differently …
‘She fills the pages with turmoil, anger, passion, love and big helpings of wit. It’s full of colour and glows with life’ Independent
The Monarchy has been dismantled
When a Republican party wins the General Election, their first act in power is to strip the Royal Family of their assets and titles and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands …
What 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 offers to take the crown off their hands, the stage is set for a right Royal show down.
Behind the doors of the most famous address in the country, all is not well.
Edward Clare was voted into No 10 after a landslide election victory. But a few years later and it is all going wrong. The love of the people is gone. The nation is turning against him.
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. In disguise, they venture into the great unknown: the mean streets of Great Britain.
A compassionate and gritty examination of love and loss
Seventeen years ago, Angela Carr aborted a child. The father, Christopher, was devastated by the loss. Unable to accept what had happened between them, both went their separate ways.
However, when Christopher makes a horrifying discovery whilst out walking his dog on the heath he finds that he is compelled to confront Angela about the past. As they start seeing each another again can they avoid the mistakes of the past? And will their future together be eclipsed by those mistakes of yesterday?
Enter the world of Susan Lilian Townsend …
Sun-worshippers, work-shy writers, garden-centre lovers and those in search of a good time are all welcome …
This sparkling collection of Sue Townsend’s hilarious non-fiction covers everything from hosepipe bans to Spanish restaurants, from writer’s block to slug warfare, from slob holidays to the banning of beige.
‘There are two things that you should know about me immediately: the first is that I am beautiful, the second is that yesterday I killed a man. Both things were accidents …’
When Midlands housewife Coventry Dakin kills her neighbour in a wild bid to prevent him from strangling his wife, she goes on the run. Finding herself alone and friendless in London she tries to lose herself in the city’s maze of streets. There she meets a bewildering cast of eccentric characters, from Professor Willoughby D’Eresby and his perpetually naked wife Letitia, to Dodo, a care-in the-community inhabitant of Cardboard City. All contrive to change Coventry in ways she could never have foreseen.
