Sue Townsend: 18 books

« La preuve, s'il en est, que Sue Townsend est l'une des romancières les plus drôles de notre époque. » - The Times « Il faut d'abord que je vous dise deux choses sur moi : la première, c'est que je suis belle, la deuxième, c'est que, hier, j'ai tué un homme du nom de Gerald Fox. Je...

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 endearing figures”—a sharp-witted, pining, and achingly...

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 and three quarters—not quite fully grown up,...

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*, possibly commercial* hands. I am afraid of blackmail;...

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 23¾ years old, Adrian Mole is now an adult and...

“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 . . . but, alas, I cannot*—but that is another story...

A play set in a council house in a small Leicestershire town. Vincent's skiing on the Wii, Sheila's feeding her great-granddaughter McKenzie, and Kerry's getting on with the ironing. None of them are planning on voting in the election, but when Selina Snow rings the doorbell to canvas, perhaps she...

Les histoires de Rébecca, Léa et Eva : trois regards inoubliables sur la vie._x000D_ _x000D_ Le coffret Comédies contemporaines comprend trois romans:_x000D_ _x000D_ Six mois sans pamplemousse (Carole Tremblay)_x000D_ La femme qui décida de passer une année au lit (Sue Townsend)_x000D_ Voyage à Lointainville (Sylvie Desrosiers)

Het tweede LINDA.boek! Op een dag dat haar neurotische tweeling het huis verlaat om te gaan studeren, giet de volmaakte huisvrouw Eva een pan tomatensoep over haar mooiste stoel en stapt uit bed. Voor een halfuurtje, maar ze komt er niet meer uit. Terwijl ze aan haar bed gekluisterd is, moet Eva dealen...

A play by one of Britain's best-selling writers Bazaar and Rummage brings together a neurotic do-gooder, a trainee social worker and three agoraphobics who have been persuaded to venture out of their homes to run a jumble sale. "As a study of agoraphobia, Bazaar and Rummage...is written...

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 figures” (The Observer)—a sharp-witted, pining, and...

“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. Growing up among inferiors in Great...

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 understand the torment of being a 13¾-year-old undiscovered...

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 not deserve . . . Right now the truth is...