THE LOST DIARIES OF ADRIAN MOLE 1999-2001

ADRIAN MOLE (AGED 30¼ ): THE CAPPUCCINO YEARS

Sequel to: 'Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years' (3958). Now a celebrity chef and single parent, Mole returns to Leicester to vote for Dr Pandora Braithwaite, Labour Party candidate and love of his young life. Book 5 of the series.

ADRIAN MOLE AND THE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

Adrian Mole, now 38 and almost officially middle-aged, is working in an antiquarian bookshop. Despite finding solace in a literary life Adrian is worried; about whether or not he can get a refund on his holiday to Cyprus; about his engagement to Marigold Flowers; and about his failure to find a celebrity speaker for his writing group's Christmas dinner. Book 6 of the series.

ADRIAN MOLE: THE PROSTRATE YEARS

When we last heard from Adrian, he had fallen in love with Daisy Flowers and they had embarked on a new life with their baby, Gracie. Fast-forward four years and Adrian's life is in turmoil again. Living in the Piggeries is far from ideal, middle age is beckoning and the ups and downs of parenthood are still plaguing him. Book 8 of the series.

ADRIAN MOLE: THE WILDERNESS YEARS

Adrian is now 23½. We follow the misunderstood genius of Middle England on a further stretch of his weary travels through the Valley of Rejection and Humiliation, in search of the sunny uplands of requited love and the publication of his novel. Book 4 of the series.

GHOST CHILDREN

Seventeen years ago Angela Carr made the difficult decision to abort an unwanted baby. The child's father, Christopher Moore, still unable to forget his grief and sense of loss, and yearning for answers, seeks out Angela. They rekindle a passionate, dangerous relationship which revives the haunting mistakes of the past.

THE GROWING PAINS OF ADRIAN MOLE

Following The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (5433), this is another hilarious account of adolescence and puberty seen through the eyes of Adrian Mole. He is to experience love and the pangs of its loss, blind dates and neuroses - in short, all the agonies of growing up. Book 2 of the series.

NUMBER TEN (X Rated)

Prime Minister Edward Clare finds that after five years in office things start to go wrong. He decides to find out what the country really thinks of him. Travelling incognito with Jack Spratt, a policeman from Number Ten, he experiences the real country for the first time in years and remembers things he used to be passionate about. X rated, contains offensive language.

THE PUBLIC CONFESSIONS OF A MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN (AGED 55¾)

For over ten years, Sue Townsend has written a monthly column for Sainsbury's Magazine. Collected here, they form a set of pieces from one of Britain's most popular and acclaimed writers that are funny, perceptive and touching.

THE QUEEN AND I

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. 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?

QUEEN CAMILLA

The UK has come over all republican. The Royal Family exiled to an Exclusion Zone with the other villains and to cap it all, the Queen has threatened to abdicate. Yet Prince Charles is more interested in root vegetables than reigning ... unless his wife Camilla can be Queen. But when a scoundrel who claims to be the couple's secret lovechild offers to take the crown off their hands, the stage is set for a right Royal show down!

REBUILDING COVENTRY

Adventures of a runaway housewife.

THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE AGED 13¾

Adrian Mole is a worrier. He is dogged by spots, cracks in his parents' marriage and misfortunes familiar to anyone over the age of 13. A 14 year old feminist, an 89 year old chain smoker and his spoilt best friend all help to lift Mole's moods. First book in the series.

THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF ADRIAN MOLE, MARGARET HILDA ROBERTS AND SUSAN LILIAN TOWNSEND

Adrian Mole is an adult. At least that's what it says on his passport. But living at home, working as a paper pusher for the DoE and pining for the love of his life, Pandora, has proved to him that adulthood isn't quite what he expected… Included here are two other less well-known diarists: Sue Townsend and Margaret Hilda Roberts, a rather ambitious grocer's daughter from Grantham. Book 3 of the series.

THE WOMAN WHO WENT TO BED FOR A YEAR

The day her children leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. She's had enough - of her kids' carelessness and her husband's thoughtlessness. Brian can't believe his wife is doing this. Who is going to make dinner? But Eva won't budge; and soon she realises to her horror that everyone has been taking her for granted - including herself.