The Heinemann Plays series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. This play is an adaptation of the humorous diary of a young intellectual, suffering the traumas of love, parental divorce and spots.
Adrian Mole's first love, Pandora, has left him; a neighbor, Mr. Lucas, appears to be seducing his mother (and what does that mean for his father?); the BBC refuses to publish his poetry; and his dog swallowed the tree off the Christmas ...
Incorporates into one vol. the author's separately published works, The secret diary of Adrian Mole, and the Growing pains of Adrian Mole.
Shares the observations of Adrian Mole, a thirteen-year-old budding intellectual beset with worries about his complexion, his untried sexuality, and his parents's unsteady marriage
From teenaged Adrian’s anguished adoration of a lovely, mercurial schoolmate to his view of his parents’ constantly creaking relationship to his heartfelt but hilarious attempts at cathartic verse, here is an outrageous triumph of ...
“Townsend’s wit is razor sharp” as her self-proclaimed intellectual adolescent hero continues his hilarious angst-filled secret diary (TheMirror).
Play version of this novel that was a hit with adults and teenagers alikeIn his secret diary, British teenager Adrian Mole excruciatingly details every morsel of his turbulent adolescence. Mixed...
At times shalwar-wetting hilarious and at others searingly sad, this is an eye-opening childhood memoir from a little-heard perspective that you'll be thinking about long after you've finished the last page.
My mother said, 'He went to London this morning, to visit the Lloyd's building for his Engineering course.' My mother's grasp of the geographical layout of the British Isles has always been minimal. I informed her of the distance from ...
She finds a strange and fragile hope in a colony of butterflies. Can they lead her home before it's too late? Heartrending yet hopeful, celebrated newcomer Kiran Hargrave's novel is a story about loss, perseverence, and faith.
. .'One of the great comic creations of our time. Almost every page of his diaries brings a smile to the face' Scotsman'Told with Townsend's trademark deadpan humour and cringe-worthy mishaps.