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The day her children leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. She's had enough - of her kids' carelessness, her husband's thoughtlessness and of the world's general indifference. Eva's refusal to behave like a dutiful wife and mother soon upsets everyone but she insists on staying in bed. And then the strangest things start to happen. A funny and touching novel from Britain's funniest writer for over 30 years.

For the past thirteen years, as England became an increasingly unhappy and fearful place, Prince Charles has been living quietly on a bleak council estate, The Flower Exclusion Zone (known locally as 'The Fez), with his wife and love of his life, Camilla. He enjoys gardening and poultry keeping while Camilla spends her days doing as little as possible, alongside their fellow ASBO-subjected neighbours. But life is about to change...Charles refuses to follow his destiny unless his wife can be Queen - and public opinion suggests the people would rather have Jordan than Camilla on the throne. But no sooner has Prince William offered himself as the next monarch, than one Graham Cracknall of Ruislip emerges - claiming to be Charles and Camilla's secret love child, and therefore the rightful heir to the crown. When the battle for the Crown begins the dogs on the Fez begin a struggle of their own - one that sweeps across the dog population of England. As Harris, the Queen's irascible corgi says, 'we've been domesticated for too long, it's time we showed our bleeding teeth.' Will sanity prevail over the right royal cock up that England has become? Or will chaos reign supreme? "Queen Camilla" shows Sue Townsend at her very best - sharp, satirical and utterly hilarious from the first page to the last.

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 and titles and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands. Exchanging Buckingham Palace for a two-bedroomed semi in Hell Close (as the locals dub it), caviar for boiled eggs, servants for a social worker named Trish, the Queen and her family learn what it means to be poor among the great unwashed. But is their breeding sufficient to allow them to rise above their changed circumstance or deep down are they really just like everyone else?

Inkognito je humoristický román populární britské spisovatelky Sue Townsendové. Vznikl v roce 2000 a autorka v něm použila originální zápletku – britský ministerský předseda Edward Clare (mimochodem manžel nejinteligentnější ženy Evropy, Adély Floretové-C

Co je příčinou Eviny krize, která ji přiměla schovávat se pod peřinou? Možná pověstných stokrát nic… Počínaje matčinými a učitelčinými drobnými, „dobře míněnými“ radami a poznámkami v době dospívání, schopnými navždy podkopat tolik potřebné sebevědomí. Přes manželovo samozřejmé přijímání vzorné péče o chod domu a domácnosti. Konče čím? Nevděkem vlastních dětí? Nedostatkem „času na sebe“? Nedostatkem lásky? Nedostatkem obyčejné lidskosti? Román britské autorky, proslavené především humornou ságou o nesnadném dospívání Adriana Molea, není vůbec lacině feministický. Ani v příběhu ženy, která odmítala vstát z postele, nechybí břitká ironie, tentokrát je ovšem zaměřena méně politicky. O to více se týká „obyčejných“ lidských vztahů.

Sue Townsend's "The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman" (Aged 55 ) is a wonderful collection of non-fiction pieces, giving us an insight into Sue's hilarious world. Sue Townsend is the much-loved comic author who brought us the bestselling "Adrian Mole" series. Enter the world of Susan Lilian Townsend - sun-worshippers, work-shy writers, garden centre lovers and those in search of a good time are all welcome...This sparkling collection of Sue Townsend's hilarious non-fiction covers everything from hosepipe bans to Spanish restaurants, from writer's block to slug warfare, from slob holidays to the banning of beige. These funny, perceptive and touching pieces reveal Sue, ourselves and the nation in an extraordinary new light. Sit back and chortle away as one of Britain's most popular and acclaimed writers takes a feather to your funny bone. "The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 55 )" is Sue Townsend's brilliantly witty collection on non-fiction pieces. "Anyone who loved "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole" will enjoy this collection of witty and sharply observed jottings from the inimitable Sue Townsend.

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) .

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 few years later and it is all going wrong. The love of the people is gone. The nation is turning against him. Panicking, Prime Minister Clare enlists the help of Jack Sprat, the policeman on the door of No 10, and sets out to discover what the country really thinks of him. In disguise, they venture into the great unknown: the mean streets of Great Britain. And for the first time in years, the Prime Minister experiences everything life in this country has to offer - an English cream tea, the kindness of strangers, waiting for trains that never come and treatment in a hospital - and at last he remembers some of things he once really cared about...Bestselling author Sue Townsend has been Britain's favourite comic writer for over three decades. "Wickedly entertaining. There is a gem on nearly every page.

Aznap, amikor ikergyerekei egyetemisták lesznek és elköltöznek hazulról, Eva befekszik az ágyába, és föl se kel. Tizenhét éve szeretné azt kiáltani a világnak: - Állj! Ki akarok szállni! - Most végre itt a lehetőség. Férje, Brian, a csillagász, aki a barátnőjével sem ... Folytatás ›› érzi jól magát, kiborul. Ki főz most neki vacsorát? Eva csak magára akarja irányítania figyelmet, panaszolja. Ám Eva dacos viselkedésének híre megy. Rajongók hada gyülekezik a ház előtt abban a hiszemben, hogy Eva akciója tiltakozás. Ő eközben teát, pirítóst és váratlan együttérzést kap Alexandertől, a furgonos új jóbaráttól, s ebben a különös, de vigasztaló helyzetben nagyon-nagyon másképp kezdi szemlélni önmagát és a világot... A(z) A nő, aki egy évig ágyban maradt (Könyv) szerzője Sue Townsend.

Re-issued with the charming original artwork from 1982, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 will rouse the nostalgia of a nation who have Sue Townsend firmly in their hearts. Tuesday January 1st Bank Holiday in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. These are my New Year's resolutions: 1. I will help the blind across the road; 2. I will hang my trousers up; 3. I will put the sleeves back on my records; 4. I will not start smoking; 5. I will stop squeezing my spots; 6. I will be kind to the dog; 7. I will help the poor and ignorant; 8. After hearing the disgusting noises from downstairs last night. I have also vowed never to drink alcohol . . . Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Telling us 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. 'Townsend has held a mirror up to the nation and made us happy to laugh at what we see in it' Sunday Telegraph Sue Townsend was born in Leicester in 1946. Despite not learning to read until the age of eight, leaving school at fifteen with no qualifications and having three children by the time she was in her mid-twenties, she always found time to read widely. She also wrote secretly for twenty years. After joining a writer's group at The Phoenix Theatre Leicester, she won a Thames Television award for her first play, Womberang, and became a professional playwright and novelist. After the publication of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ thirty years ago, Sue continued made the nation laugh and pricked its conscience. She wrote seven further volumes of Adrian's diaries and five other popular novels - including The Queen and I and Number Ten - and numerous well received plays. Sue passed away in 2014 at the age of sixty-eight. She is widely regarded as Britain's favourite comic writer.

O Adrianu Moleovi už jiste slyšeli všichni. Príhody známého pubertáka plné sarkastického humoru zacaly vycházet koncem osmdesátých let v Británii a zanedlouho i zde. Zaujaly od prvního okamžiku, kdy se objevily na trhu, cetly se na pokracování, byly zdramatizovány, v divadlech se hrály jako muzikál a staly se dokonce námetem oblíbené pocítacové hry. Autorka navíc pokracovala v lícení osudu svérázného hlavního hrdiny až do jeho ctyricítky, takže ctenári mohli sledovat svého oblíbence i v dospelosti. Mladá fronta vydává knihy už poctvrté, tentokrát v revidovaném prekladu a nové úprave. V prvním dílu je Adrian 13 a 3 roku starý muž, který všemu rozumí a kriticky hodnotí nejen kamarády a ucitele, ale predevším – jak jinak – své rodice. Píše si deník, v nemž si nebere servítky a jemuž se sveruje se vším, co ho potkalo. Ke všemu se ješte vážne zamiloval, takže psát má skutecne o cem.

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

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. . .

Vynikajúci kultový román so skvelým anglickým humorom. Trinásťročný Adrian vtipne komentuje každodenné zážitky zapisuje ich do svojho prísne tajného denníka. Považuje sa za nepochopeného intelektuála, prehnane sleduje svoj vzhľad a za väčšinu problémov viní rodičov. Trochu šikanovaný a bezradný, ale tajne zaľúbený do najpopulárnejšieho dievčaťa v triede Pandory, sa chce sa stať slávnym spisovateľom. Opisuje dianie nielen vo svojom okolí, ale aj udalosti britskej spoločnosti, ktoré boli v tom čase aktuálne.

Adrian Mole has entered early middle age and is now

Adrian Mole is thirty-nine and a quarter. He lives in the country in a semi-detached converted pigsty with his wife Daisy and their daughter. His parents George and Pauline live in the adjoining pigsty. But all is not well. The secondhand bookshop in whic