The Recurring Cast
Character guide · 7 books · 1982 to 2009 · Set in Leicester

Sue Townsend

Literary and generalComic fiction

Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole books are the diaries of a pompous, worried, would-be intellectual from Leicester, beginning at thirteen and three-quarters and following him into middle age, in love with Pandora Braithwaite all the way.

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Adrian Mole

7 books · Set in LeicesterComic fiction
  1. 1The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾1982With Adrian MoleBuy on Amazon
  2. 2The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole1984With Adrian MoleBuy on Amazon
  3. 3The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole1989With Adrian MoleBuy on Amazon
  4. 4Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years1993With Adrian MoleBuy on Amazon
  5. 5Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years1999With Adrian MoleBuy on Amazon
  6. 6Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction2004With Adrian MoleBuy on Amazon
  7. 7Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years2009With Adrian MoleBuy on Amazon

Characters

6 recurring and key characters, with the book each one first appears in.

Leicester