Sue Townsend

A hamarosan tizenötödik születésnapját ünneplő Adrian Mole-ra újabb megpróbáltatások várnak: kiderül, hogy szülei nem csak, hogy kibékültek, de kistestvérrel fogják megajándékozni fiukat. A hír a szülőket is meglepetésként éri, Adrian édesapja mély pánikkal fogadja az újabb vég nélküli éjszakázások, édesanyja pedig a dagadt bokák és rosszullétek képét. De minden megváltozik, mikor a kicsi megszületik - főleg, mert még egy, legalább ugyanekkora meglepetés vár a Mole-családra... Sue Townsend második Adrian Mole regénye az elsőhöz hasonlóan tele van humorral, furcsa helyzetekkel, egy különös észjárású kamasz gondolataival - és elgondolkodtató témákkal.

A hamarosan tizenötödik születésnapját ünneplő Adrian Mole-ra újabb megpróbáltatások várnak: kiderül, hogy szülei nem csak, hogy kibékültek, de kistestvérrel fogják megajándékozni fiukat. A hír a szülőket is meglepetésként éri, Adrian édesapja mély pánikkal fogadja az újabb vég nélküli éjszakázások, édesanyja pedig a dagadt bokák és rosszullétek képét.De minden megváltozik, mikor a kicsi megszületik - főleg, mert még egy, legalább ugyanekkora meglepetés vár a Mole-családra…Sue Townsend második Adrian Mole regénye az elsőhöz hasonlóan tele van humorral, furcsa helyzetekkel, egy különös észjárású kamasz gondolataival - és elgondolkodtató témákkal.

Sue Townsend regénye őszinte és vicces beszámoló egy kamasz fiú életéről: válás közelében lévő szüleiről, alkoholizmusba csúszó apjáról; furcsa barátságáról egy háborús veteránnal, akit beszippant a szociális rendszer; első, viszonzatlan, majd viszonzottá váló szerelméről; és persze pattanásokról, iskolai hatalmi játszmákról, fárasztó tanárokról, egy (vagy inkább kettő) őrült kutyáról és sok-sok könyvről, amiket Adrian villámgyorsan olvas, hogy igazi "intellektuel" válhasson belőle. Az Adrian Mole titkos naplója több mint negyven éve, 1982-ben jelent meg először. Azóta készült belőle sorozat, musical, és további 7 könyv. Kortalan, szórakoztató olvasmány, Békés Pál klasszikus fordításában - nem csak kamasz fiúknak.

Sue Townsend regénye őszinte és vicces beszámoló egy kamasz fiú életéről: válás közelében lévő szüleiről, alkoholizmusba csúszó apjáról; furcsa barátságáról egy háborús veteránnal, akit beszippant a szociális rendszer; első, viszonzatlan, majd viszonzottá váló szerelméről; és persze pattanásokról, iskolai hatalmi játszmákról, fárasztó tanárokról, egy (vagy inkább kettő) őrült kutyáról és sok-sok könyvről, amiket Adrian villámgyorsan olvas, hogy igazi „intellektuel” válhasson belőle. Az Adrian Mole titkos naplója több mint negyven éve, 1982-ben jelent meg először. Azóta készült belőle sorozat, musical, és további 7 könyv. Kortalan, szórakoztató olvasmány, Békés Pál klasszikus fordításában – nem csak kamasz fiúknak.

Friday January 2nd I felt rotten today. It's my mother's fault for singing 'My Way' at two o'clock in the morning at the top of the stairs. Just my luck to have a mother like her. There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics. Next year I could be in a children's home. Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life as he writes candidly about the dog, his parents' marital troubles and life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual.' Forty years after it first appeared, Sue Townsend's comic masterpiece continues to be rediscovered by new generations of readers.

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction. The Secret Life of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4, a Level 3 Reader, is A2 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing first conditional, past continuous and present perfect simple for general experience. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear on most pages. Adrian Mole is a 13-year-old boy. Adrian writes a diary about his school, his family and, of course, love. "There's a new girl in our class . . . I think I might love her. I am 13 3/4 years old, so I'm old enough for love!"

14. SEPTEMBER 1982, utorok. Moja matka má dnes tridsaťosem rokov. Kúpil som jej blahoprajný pozdrav, na ktorom bolo „Šťastné 18. narodeniny!“, so šošovičkou a lepidlom som šikovne premenil jednotku na trojku. Bohužiaľ, veršík vnútri pozdravu nevystihoval matkin stav. Na prahu života ľahko sa dievčaťu hlava zamotá. Byť ženou a matkou mňa ešte nebaví: veď sú tu diskotéky, kiná, zábavy!... Môj otec poslal pozdrav s obrázkom smutnej mačky.

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 her new friend Alexander the white van man brings tea, toast and an unexpected sympathy. And from this odd but comforting place Eva begins to see both herself and the world very, very differently. . .

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 is the first book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series, reissued in Penguin's ORIGINALS collection of iconic teen fiction. Friday January 2nd I felt rotten today. It's my mother's fault for singing 'My Way' at two o'clock in the morning at the top of the stairs. Just my luck to have a mother like her. There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics. Next year I could be in a children's home. 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 reading thirty years after it first appeared. Praise for Adrian Mole (and by extension, Sue Townsend): 'I not only wept, I howled and hooted and had to get up and walk around the room and wipe my eyes so that I could go on reading' Tom Sharpe 'A satire of our times. Very funny indeed' Sunday Times 'We laugh both at Mole and with him. A wonderful comic read, that, like all the best comedy, says something rather meaningful' Heat

Kniha představuje čtenářům stručné zápisky, jež si náš známý adolescent smutné postavy pořizoval v šestiletém období 1984–1991, kdy již překonal své hořké zrání, ale do těch pravých let v divočině velkého světa mu ještě něco scházelo. Knížka má dvě části – první je samotná Zpověď, druhá nese název Adrian Mole a malí obojživelníci – a na jejich stránkách se dočteme například o tom, jak se Pandora začíná Adrianovi neodvratně vzdalovat nebo jak maturita a vyhlídky na další studium končí katastrofou. Navíc se s Adrianem podíváme do Moskvy a prožijeme s ním trapná úskalí prvního zaměstnání v městské knihovně, po němž následuje odchod do Oxfordu, neboť doma už není místo. A je to asi už Adrianův osud, že ho v univerzitním městě nečeká studium, ale soužití s Pandořiným excentrickým manželem Julianem či věčné konflikty s šéfem či instruktory v autoškole… zatímco v Leicesteru matka strojí svatbu s mladičkým podnájemníkem Muffetem.

Pokračování populárního Tajného deníku Adriana Molea staví svého hrdinu, obtíženého nelehkým údělem nepochopeného a vysmívaného intelektuála v obyčejné středoanglické rodině, před nová rodinná, milostná i literární trápení. Právě uprostřed čekání na přírůstek do rodiny přichází nová krize ve vztahu mezi rodiči, závěrečné zkoušky se kvapem blíží a citová nejistota a obavy z nedostatku sexuálních zkušeností jen prohlubují Adrianovy trable. I uprostřed největších rodinných, školních a citových zmatků zůstává však Adrian zároveň bystrým pozorovatelem svého blízkého i vzdálenějšího okolí a vážných i nevážných problémů, které hýbou Británií počátku osmdesátých let. Podobně jako v předchozí knize se čtenář ovšem nemusí bát pedanterie či nudy: právě neodolatelný anglický humor a kouzlo klukovského pohledu na svět, jimiž Adrianovy deníkové zápisy jiskří, stály u zrodu neobyčejné popularity celé série.

Sue Townsend, one of Britain's most-loved writers and the creator of the much-loved "Adrian Mole" series, tells a compassionate and gritty story of love and loss in "Ghost Children". "Gripping and disturbing. Utterly absorbing" ("Independent"). Seventeen years ago Angela Carr aborted an unwanted child. The child's father, Christopher Moore, was devastated by the loss and he retreated from the world. 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? A compelling fable of our times, "Ghost Children" is a compassionate and gritty examination of love and loss from one of Britain's most-loved writers, Sue Townsend. "Bleak, tender and deeply affecting. Seldom have I rooted so hard for a set of fictional individuals" ("Mail on Sunday) .

This is the brand new edition of the brilliant sixth book in the hilarious "Adrian Mole" series, Sue Townsend's "The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole". Monday January 3, 2000 So how do I greet the New Millennium? In despair. I'm a single parent, I live with my mother...I have a bald spot the size of a jaffa cake on the back of my head...I can't go on like this, drifting into early middle-age. I need a Life Plan...The 'same age as Jesus when he died', Adrian Mole has become a martyr: a single-father bringing up two young boys in an uncaring world. With the ever-unattainable Pandora pursuing her ambition to become Labour's first female PM; his over-achieving half-brother Brett sponging off him; and literary success ever-elusive, Adrian tries to make ends meet and find a purpose. But little does he realise that he is about to come to the attention of those policing The War Against Terror..."Told with Townsend's trademark deadpan humour. To people of a certain age, Adrian Mole was their Harry Potter". ("News of the World"). "An achingly funny anti-hero". ("Daily Mail"). Sue Townsend is Britain's favourite comic author. Since the publication of "The Secret Diaries of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and 3/4" in 1982, she has made us weep with laughter and pricked the nation's conscience. Seven further volumes of diaries have followed: "The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole", "The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole", "Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years", "Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years", "The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole", "Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction" and "Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years". All have been acclaimed bestsellers, some have been adapted for radio and TV, starring Lulu, Julie Walters and Stephen Mangan, among others. She has also written six other popular novels ("The Queen and I", "Queen Camilla", "Number Ten", "Rebuilding Coventry", "Ghost Children" and "The Woman Who Went to Bed for A Year") and penned many well-received plays. She lives in Leicester, where she was born and grew up.

The brand new edition of the hilarious fourth book in the Adrian Mole series, Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years. Thursday January 3rd I have the most terrible problems with my sex life. It all boils down to the fact that I have no sex life. At least not with another person. Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora, Adrian Mole finds himself in the unenviable situation of living with the love-of-his-life as she goes about shacking up with other men. Worse, as he slides down the employment ladder, from deskbound civil servant in Oxford to part-time washer-upper in Soho, he finds that critical reception for his epic novel, Lo! The Flat Hills of My Homeland, is not quite as he might have hoped. But Adrian is about to discover that extraordinary and wonderful things may blossom even in the wilderness . . .

This is the brand new edition of the hilarious seventh book in the brilliant "Adrian Mole" series, Sue Townsend's "Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction". Wednesday April 2nd. My birthday. I am thirty-five today. I am officially middle-aged. It is all downhill from now. A pathetic slide towards gum disease, wheelchair ramps and death. 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..."The funniest book of the year. I can think of no more comical read". (Jeremy Paxman, "Sunday Telegraph"). "Richly comic ...stuffed full of humour, tragedy, vanity, pathos and, very occasionally, wisdom". ("Guardian"). "Completely hilarious, laugh-out-loud, a joy". ("Daily Mirror"). Sue Townsend is Britain's favourite comic author. Since the publication of "The Secret Diaries of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and 3/4" in 1982, she has made us weep with laughter and pricked the nation's conscience. Seven further volumes of diaries have followed: "The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole", "The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole", "Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years", "Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years", "The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole", "Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction" and "Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years". All have been acclaimed bestsellers, some have been adapted for radio and TV, starring Lulu, Julie Walters and Stephen Mangan, among others. She has also written six other popular novels ("The Queen and I", "Queen Camilla", "Number Ten", "Rebuilding Coventry", "Ghost Children" and "The Woman Who Went to Bed for A Year") and penned many well-received plays. She lives in Leicester, where she was born and grew up.

This is the 30th anniversary edition of the bestselling novel of the 1980s: "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and 3/4" by comic genius Sue Townsend. Featuring a new introduction by comedian and actor David Walliams as well as over sixty pages of extra material about Adrian Mole, his friends and family. Friday January 2nd. I felt rotten today. It's my mother's fault for singing 'My Way' at two o'clock in the morning at the top of the stairs. Just my luck to have a mother like her. There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics. Next year I could be in a children's home. 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 reading thirty years after it first appeared. "I not only wept, I howled and hooted and had to get up and walk around the room and wipe my eyes so that I could go on reading". (Tom Sharpe). "One of the great comic creations". ("Daily Mirror"). "Marvellous, touching and screamingly funny ...set to become as much a cult book as "The Catcher in the Rye". (Jilly Cooper). Sue Townsend is Britain's favourite comic author. Since the publication of "The Secret Diaries of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and 3/4" in 1982, she has made us weep with laughter and pricked the nation's conscience. Seven further volumes of diaries have followed: "The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole", "The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole", "Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years", "Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years", "The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole", "Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction", and "Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years". All have been acclaimed bestsellers, some have been adapted for radio and TV, starring Lulu, Julie Walters and Stephen Mangan, among others. She has also written six other popular novels ("The Queen and I", "Queen Camilla", "Number Ten", "Rebuilding Coventry", "Ghost Children and The Woman Who Went to Bed for A Year") and penned many well-received plays. She lives in Leicester, where she was born and grew up.