Sue Townsend Adrian Mole 8 Books Collection Set

This Sue Townsend collection brings together eight books from the Adrian Mole series, following Adrian’s diaries and reflections across different stages of his life. The set includes the well-known opening volume The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4, described as a modern classic, alongside later instalments that continue Adrian’s story into adulthood.

Across the series, Adrian records family upheavals, changing relationships and working life, from crises at home to jobs in the civil service, hospitality and bookselling. The collection also includes volumes set around the turn of the millennium and beyond, with diary entries that capture Adrian’s ongoing attempts to make sense of his circumstances.

Included titles

• The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4
• The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
• The True Confessions of Adrian Mole; Margaret Hilda Roberts
• Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years
• Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
• Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction
• The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole; 1999-2001
• Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years

Key details

• Eight-book collection set
• Written by Sue Townsend
• Titles from the Adrian Mole series
• Includes diary-format instalments spanning 1999–2001

Synopses

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4

Presented as a modern classic, this opening diary introduces Adrian Mole, a character described as as popular as ever. The edition is noted as having a beautiful new package, suited to established readers and those new to the series.

The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

In a diary entry dated Sunday 18 July, Adrian’s father announces he will have a vasectomy, leaving Adrian unable to eat his breakfast. With the Mole family in crisis and the country “beating the drum of war”, Adrian’s parents reconcile after disastrous affairs, and he is shocked to learn of his mother’s pregnancy.

The True Confessions of Adrian Mole; Margaret Hilda Roberts

Adrian is an adult, at least according to his passport, but he is still living at home and holding on to his threadbare cuddly rabbit, Pinky. He works as a paper pusher for the DoE and continues to pine for Pandora, finding that adulthood is not what he expected.

Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years

This is described as the fourth book in Sue Townsend’s Adrian Mole series.

Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years

In an entry dated Wednesday 13 August, Adrian is back in his old bedroom: older, wiser and with less hair. He is thirty, single and a father, with his cooking at a top London restaurant both mocked and celebrated, while Pandora Braithwaite is the newly elected MP for Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Frustrated, disappointed and undersexed, he receives a letter from his past that is about to change everything.

Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction

Adrian is middle-aged and still writing, working as a bookseller and living in Leicester’s Rat Wharf. He writes advice letters to Tim Henman and Tony Blair, battles a vicious swan called Gielgud, measures his expanding bald spot and tries to win over Daisy.

The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole; 1999-2001

Described as the seventh book in the series, this volume includes an entry dated Monday 3 January 2000. Adrian greets the new millennium in despair as a single parent living with his mother, worried about a bald spot and feeling he needs a “Life Plan”.

Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years

Described as the eighth book in the series, it opens on Sunday 1 July, “No Smoking Day”, when smoking in public places and workplaces becomes forbidden in England. The entry notes exemptions for “a lunatic, a prisoner, an MP or a member of the Royal Family”.