Sue Townsend

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1987
  • Latest Book:
    May 2018
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Full Series List in Order

Adrian Mole Diaries

Adrian Mole Diaries (Oct-1997)
Ghost Children (May-1998)
Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (Sep-2005)

Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

    “Townsend’s wit is razor sharp” as her self-proclaimed intellectual adolescent hero continues his hilarious angst-filled secret diary (TheMirror).  I can’t wait until I am fully mature and can make urban conversation with intellectuals. ...

  • Rebuilding Coventry

  • Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years

    Can an adult still have a secret diary? Everyone’s favorite angsty adolescent Brit is now a tormented twentysomething and still “a brilliant comic creation” (The Times).  Question: What have I done with my life? Answer: Nothing.   At ...

  • Adrian Mole: The Lost Years

  • True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole

    As his secret diary extends into his later teen years, the angsty Brit remains “part Holden Caulfield, part . . . Bertie Wooster” and all Adrian (The New York Times).  Send my diaries back. I would hate them to fall into unfriendly...

  • Adrian Mole Diaries

    Adrian Mole Diaries

    “The trouble with trying to read passages from the Adrian Mole Diaries aloud is that you find yourself laughing so hard you can’t go on. It’s that kind of book.” -- Kansas City Star “As sad and devastating as it is laugh-out-loud funny. A ...

  • Ghost Children

    Adrian Mole Diaries

    The author of the celebrated Adrian Mole books presents a bittersweet novel about a discouraged electrician haunted by a former lover's abortion, who makes an appalling discovery that forces him to catch up with his past. 15,000 first printing....

  • Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years

    The “wickedly satirical, mad, ferociously farcical [and] subversive” angsty Brit of secret diary fame careens into his thirties (Daily Mail).  I expect that by tomorrow I will have embellished the story and given myself a heroic status I do ...

  • The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4

    British adolescent angst has never been so “laugh-out-loud funny” as in this first encounter with a sharp-witted, pining, and achingly honest underdog (The New York Times).  Perhaps when I am famous and my diary is discovered, people will un...



  • The Queen and I

    This is a seminal comic masterpiece of our time, now published for the first time in Penguin. 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 a...

  • Number Ten

    Number Ten is the brilliantly funny novel by Sue Townsend, author of the Adrian Mole series. Behind the doors of the most famous address in the country, all is not well. Edward Clare was voted into Number Ten after a landslide election victory. But a...

  • Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction

    Adrian Mole Diaries

    A rollicking comic adventure starring “one of literature’s most endearing figures” (The Observer).   Readers worldwide have loved Adrian Mole ever since he wrote his first diary at age thirteen and three quarters. Now he is age thirty-four...

  • The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001

    “The trouble with trying to read passages from the Adrian Mole diaries aloud is that you find yourself laughing so hard you can’t go on” (Kansas City Star).  I wish that I could relate that I have found happiness and contentment . .&#...

  • Queen Camilla

    THE BRILLIANTLY FUNNY SEQUEL TO THE QUEEN AND I FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADRIAN MOLE SERIES

    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...

  • The Woman Who Went To Bed For A Year

    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...

  • Townsend Plays

  • Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes

  • The Great Celestial Cow

  • Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years

    The final chapter in the beloved chronicles of an angsty Brit begun in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ is “a tour de force by a comic genius” (Daily Mail).  Am I turning into one of those middle-aged men who think the country has g...



  • Adrian Mole, The Early Years

    British adolescent angst has never been so “laugh-out-loud funny” (The New York Times) -- the journey begins with these first two books in the heartbreakingly hilarious series.   Commiserate with “one of literature’s most endearing figur...

  • Adrian Mole, The Later Years

    As his laugh-out-loud secret diary extends into his later teens and young adulthood, everyone’s favorite angsty Brit remains “a brilliant comic creation” (The Times, London).   Continue to commiserate with “one of literature’s most end...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Sue Townsend has published 21 books.

Sue Townsend does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Adrian Mole, The Later Years, was published in May 2018.

The first book by Sue Townsend, The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, was published in August 1987.

Yes. Sue Townsend has 1 series.
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