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Adrian Mole is middle-aged but still scribbling. 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 win-over the voluptuous Daisy.... Adrian yearns for a better more meaningful world. But he's not ready to surrender his pen yet.

Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Writing candidly about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual', Adrian's painfully honest diary is still hilarious and compelling thirty years after it first appeared.

Adrian Mole is an adult. At least that's what it says on his passport. But living at home, clinging to his threadbare cuddly rabbit 'Pinky', 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.

Coventry Dakin's tale begins with her accidental killing of her neighbour. Forced to flee the law, she deserts her council estate, her boring husband and two demanding children for the anonymity of London's cardboard city. Originally published in 1988, Rebuilding Coventry is a brilliantly observed satire of Eighties Britain and the hypocrisy of the middle and upper classes.

Bestseller napěchovaný britským humorem a jedna z nejvlivnějších knih posledního půlstoletí vám zaručeně bude vhánět slzy smíchu do očí. Adrian Mole má problém! Je mu přesně 13 a 3/4 roku, je jedináček, dostává k Vánocům nemožné dárky a toho, že je intelektuál, si zatím nikdo nevšiml. Musí se starat o příšerného důchodce Berta Baxtera a ještě příšernějšího psa Šavli. Adrianovi rodiče se rozvádějí. Navíc se ve škole čerstvě zamiloval do Pandory a dokáže kvůli tomu dokonce přehlížet skutečnost, že Pandora kouří pět cigaret denně a má svůj vlastní zapalovač.