Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction

30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONAs funny as anything Townsend has written, in which the loft-dwelling Mole wrestles with credit-card debt, WMD and where to find a dentist- Sunday Times Wednesday April 2ndMy birthday.I am thirty-five today. I am officially middle-aged. It is all downhill from now. A pathetic slide towards gum disease, wheelchair ramps and death. Adrian Mole is middle-aged but still scribbling. Working as a bookseller and living in Leicesters Rat Wharf; finding time to write letters of advice to Tim Henman and Tony Blair; locked in mortal combat with a vicious swan called Gielgud; measuring his expanding bald spot; and trying to win-over the voluptuous Daisy . . . Adrian yearns for a better more meaningful world. But hes not ready to surrender his pen yet- . . . Hilarious. Deft, gleeful mockery impales modish fads, from home make-overs to new-age crazes, while fiercer irony is trained on the countrys involvement with Iraq- Sunday Times Richly comic ... stuffed full of humour, tragedy, vanity, pathos and, very occasionally, wisdom- Guardian Completely hilarious, laugh-out-loud, a joy- Daily Mirror