Sue Townsendová Knihy

Adrian Mole žije spočiatku v komore Pandorinho oxfordského bytu a pracuje v odbore pre životné prostredie. V práci ani v súkromnom živote nie je spokojný, a ani jeho posedenia u krásnej psychoterapeutky Leonory nie sú účinné. Spriaznenú dušu nachádza v trafikantke Bianke, kvalifikovanej inžinierke. Či je to tá pravá, ktorá naplní Adrianovu túžbu po naozajstnej láske, a akú úlohu zohrá v Adrianovom ďalšom živote jeho chlapčenský otčim a nigérijská študentka Jo Jo, to sa dozviete v štvrtom, poslednom pokračovaní denníkových záznamov Adriana Mola.

Druhá časť denníkových záznamov hrdinu svojského životného príbehu. Adrianov tajný denník je výnimočne vtipný a úprimný. V tejto časti okrem problémov s rodičmi do jeho osudu zasiahne narodenie ďalšieho súrodenca – sestry. Pripravujeme aj ďalšie pokračovanie „strastiplného“ príbehu Adriana Mola.

Prvá časť denníkových záznamov hlavného hrdinu. Adrian čelí problémom každodenného života, prežíva svoju prvú lásku, bojuje o naplnenie svojich literárnych ambícií, vyrovnáva sa s neusporiadaným rodinným životom svojich rodičov.

Fiktívne denníkové zápisky nepraktického školáka z polorozvrátenej rodiny sa začiatkom osemdesiatych rokov stali hitom. Komické aj dojímavé rozprávanie o tínedžerovom bolestnom vstupe medzi dospelých malo hĺbku a presvedčivosť. Dodnes je na princípe Adrianových tajných denníkových zápiskov niečo fascinujúce: hrdina žije a starne takmer súčasne so svojimi čitateľmi. Číta v novinách rovnaké správy, ovplyvňuje ho to isté spoločenské a politické dianie. Dnes má Adrian tridsať rokov, je rozvedený a stará sa o syna Wiliama. Šéfkuchár vo vyhľadávanej reštaurácii U divocha, neúspešný spisovateľ a opustený manžel exotickej Nigérijčanky Jo-Jo sa vracia z Londýna do Ashby-de-la-Zouch, aby odovzdal svoj volebný hlas strane Tonyho Blaira...

V treťom pokračovaní denníkových záznamov stratíte spolu s hlavným hrdinom ilúzie o Vianociach i o dospelých, vycestujete s ním do Moskvy aj do Rádia štyri v BBC, budete sledovať jeho pohnutý citový a pracovný život a ako vždy budete analyzovať a filozofovať.

Dlouho očekávané nové pokračování světově proslulé řady knih o věčném smolaři Adrianu Moleovi zavádí čtenáře do Velké Británie roku 2002. Adrian nyní dosáhl středního věku, pracuje v knihkupectví, má za sebou dvě nevydařená manželství a je otcem dvou synů. Jeho sen o kariéře úspěšného spisovatele se rozplynul. Obdiv svého okolí se snaží získat alespoň luxusním bydlením, což ho ovšem uvrhne do zlověstné spirály rostoucího zadlužení. Navíc se málem ožení s Marigold, pološílenou vyznavačkou alter-nativního způsobu života. Najde v sobě sílu zrušit zasnoubení a navázat nový vztah s krásnou Daisy?

Kniha o hrdince s neobvyklým jménem Coventry se čte jedním dechem. Hned v prvních řádcích se dozvídáme o zločinu, jehož rozluštění se dočkáme až v samém závěru. Coventry je na útěku a svou svízelnou životní situaci využívá k tomu, aby se vymanila z nudného stereotypu vzorné ženušky v domácnosti. Poprvé v životě se dostává z provinčního městečka na severu Anglie do Londýna: velkoměsto objevuje nejprve z roviny ulice a prostředí bezdomovců, později se při práci pomocnice v excentrické domácnosti ocitne mezi potrhlými intelektuály, nahlédne i mezi společenskou a politickou smetánku. Autorka jejím prostřednictvím velmi vtipně kritizuje, ironizuje a paroduje všechna prostředí, kterými Coventry postupně prochází.

Fifteen years ago Angela Carr aborted an unwanted child. Now the past revisits her with a vengeance. Fifteen years later the child's father, Christopher Moore, cannot quite forget his grief, longing and sense of loss. Living alone on a drab council estate, he is a burnt out man without a job and only a bull terrior for company. Christopher has turned his back on the world and has given-up on life. While out walking his dog one morning, Christopher makes a shocking and touching discovery in a ditch. What he finds forces him to seek out Angela. Now in a desperate, loveless marriage to Gregory Lipton, Angela has never had the child she realised she wanted. When Christopher re-enters her life like a grim messenger, the couple renew a love and passion lost all those years ago.

Adrian Mole is 39 and a quarter. Unable to afford the mortgage on his riverside apartment, he has been forced to move into a semi-detached converted pigsty next door to his parents, George and Pauline. His ravishing wife Daisy loathes the countryside, longs for Dean Street and has yet to buy a pair of Wellingtons; they are both aware the passion has gone out of their marriage, but neither knows how to reignite the flame. To cap it all off, Adrian is leaving his bed numerous times a night to go to the lavatory and has other alarming symptoms, leading him to suspect prostate trouble. Meanwhile, his mother thinks that an appearance on the Jeremy Kyle show might solve the mystery of her daughter’s paternity once and for all. And when George is asked to provide a DNA sample, will the shock kill him? He is already disabled, though still chain smoking and has had an ashtray welded onto the arm of his wheelchair. As Adrian’s worries multiply, a phone call to his old flame Dr Pandora Braithwaite, BA, MA, PhD, MP and Junior Minister in the Foreign Office, ignites memories of a shared passion and makes him wonder – is she the only one who can save him now?

The adventures of 33-year-old Adrian Mole as he tries to deal with the people in his life and cope with all that life has to offer him

A revolutionary British government orders the Queen to abdicate and the Royal family to vacate Buckingham Palace. Being rehoused on a council estate in the Midlands comes as a bit of a shock to Philip and Elizabeth. The intrusion of this family of "poshos" is a shock for their new neighbours too.

Enter the world of Susan Lilian Townsend - sun-worshippers, work-shy writers, garden-centre lovers and those in search of a good time all welcome. Over the last decade, Sue Townsend has written a monthly column for "Sainsbury's Magazine", which covers everything from hosepipe bans and Spanish restaurants to writer's block and the posh middle-aged woman she once met who'd never heard of Winnie-the-Pooh. Collected together now for the first time, they form a set of pieces from one of Britain's most popular and acclaimed writers that is funny, perceptive and touching.

When the Queen announces her decision to abdicate, Charles refuses to follow his destiny unless his wife can be queen - and public opinion suggests that the people would rather have Jordan on the throne than Camilla. But no sooner has Prince William offered himself as the next monarch than one Graham Cracknell of Ruislip emerges, claiming to be Charles and Camilla's secret love-child and rightful heir.

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...

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.

Texty shromážděné v této knize původně vznikaly jako příspěvky do časopisu The Magazine. Sue Townsendová je psala v letech 1993–2001. V podstatě jde o vtipné střípky z autorčina života – Townsendová s nezaměnitelným a nenapodobitelným humorem popisuje svou rodinu a drobné domácí trampoty. Dočteme se o problémech s řemeslníky v domě i o potížích s novými domácími spotřebiči. Zkrátka o všem, co zpříjemňuje či znepříjemňuje život jedné normální britské ženy ve středních letech.

Celebrate Adrian Mole's 50th Birthday and upcoming musical, at London's Menier Chocolate Factory, with this new double edition, featuring the first two books in the hilarious collection and see life through the spectacles of a misunderstood boy growing up in the early 1980s. from publisher's description

"This is a state-wide history of Florida's food and cooking as it evolved over several centuries and through today"--

British teenager Adrian Mole records the ups and downs of adolescence in his diary.

The latest diaries of this set-upon yet ambitious closet genius are hilariously hedonistic and marvelously moving. They are filled with the kind of soulful, scathing and sly musings all of us indulge in but would never divulge. The most disarming pangs and prevarications are laid bare for our amusement. Adrian Mole - misunderstood, maligned, and muddled - is a nerdy hoot. And oddly captivating.

Adrian Mole is obsessed with his fiance's sister, he is heavily in debt to banks and credit card companies, and now he needs a guest speaker for his creative writing group's dinner in Leicestershire and recommends Cherie Blair, the wife of England's Prime Minister

"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 ¾ years old, so I'm old enough for love!"--Publisher

Whether in the guise of a 13 3/4-year old adolescent, a transvestite PM or the Queen reduced to living on a council estate, Sue Townsend has been brilliantly satirizing British life for more than twenty years. Penguin published all of Townsend's hilarious Adrian Mole books and The Queen in Hell Close is an extract from The Queen and I, a brilliantly acerbic take on a Royal Family in dire straits.

'There are two things that you should know about me immediately: the first is that I am beautiful, the second is that yesterday I killed a man. Both things were accidents . ..' When Midlands housewife Coventry Dakin kills her neighbour with an Action Man - in a wild bid to prevent him from strangling his wife - she goes on the run. Finding herself alone and friendless in London, she tries to lose herself in the city's maze of streets. There, she meets a bewildering cast of eccentric characters. From Professor Willoughby D'Eresby, his perpetually naked wife Letitia, to Dodo, a care-in the-community inhabitant of Cardboard City, they all contrive to change Coventry in ways she could never have foreseen . . .

Nigeria, England, America, Jamaica; are you proud of where you're from? Dark skinned, light skinned, afro, weaves, who are your true brothers and sisters? When two brothers from different continents go down the street to buy a pint of milk, they lift the lid on a disunited nation where everyone wants to be an individual but no one wants to stand out from the crowd. A debut work produced at the Royal Court's Young Writers Festival, Gone Too Far! is a comic and astute play about identity, history and culture, portraying a world where respect is always demanded but rarely freely given. Gone Too Far! premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 2007 where it was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, 2008. It is published here in an abridged form as part of Methuen Drama's Plays For Young People series.

From the back cover: Adrian Mole: From Minor to Major brings together the three bestselling volumes of Adrian Mole's diaries for the 1980s - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4, The Growing Pains of Adrian Albert Mole and True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole - with Adrian's previously unpublished diaries for 1989 and 1990. For the first time between the covers of one book, these are the complete Adrian Mole diaries, taking him from 13 3/4 to 23 3/4.

Morrigan Crowe is listed in the Register of Cursed Children. She is accused of all possible sins - from hail to heart attacks. But worst of all, Morrigan is cursed to die at midnight on her eleventh birthday. But a strange man named Jupiter North appears. He insists that the girl win a place in the prestigious Society of the Prodigiously Chosen, so she will have to endure four difficult and dangerous exams along with hundreds of other children, each of whom has an extraordinary gift. And Morrigan, as she herself insists, has no gift. In order to save herself, the girl will have to pass a test - or leave the city to face fate...

A harmincas éveiben járó Adrián továbbra is aggódik: Válhat még belőle jó apa? Csak átverés a Viagra? Miért nem akarja a BBC megfilmesíteni az ő sorozatgyilkosról szóló komédiáját, A fehér furgont? Belsőségekre specializálódott, ünnepelt konyhafőnökként, szingli szülőként és szüzességi fogadalmat tett regényíróként vajon megleli-e a beteljesülést, amire vágyik? Vajon Blair Szép Új Nagy-Britanniájában van-e helye Adrián Mole-nak?

Adrian Mole, der legendäre, tragigkomische Held und Tagebuchschreiber, hat endlich die Pubertät hinter sich gebracht. Das will nicht heißen, dass er nun erwachsen ist - jede Seite seiner neuesten geheimen Aufzeichnungen beweißt das Gegenteil.

Exploring intriguing questions about creativity and human relationships, this collection features compelling tales that delve into the complexities of life. From the challenge of creating a machine that mimics a writer to the mysterious allure of a landlady's house, each story reveals the nuanced dynamics between characters, such as Sir Basil Turton's conflicting affections for his wife and his priceless sculptures. These narratives serve as an excellent introduction to the author's masterful storytelling in adult fiction.

In dagboekvorm geeft een 13-jarige jongen commentaar op de moderne leefcultuur en de politiek. Dagboeknotities van een 13-jarige jongen die het leven op school en thuis niet makkelijk vindt.