The second theme is depiction of the social and political situation in Britain, with particular reference to left-wing politics in the 1980s in the first three books. The first two books appealed to many readers as a realistic and humorous treatment of the inner life of an adolescent boy, and capturing the zeitgeist of the UK during the Thatcher period.

At the time Adrian Mole – The Weapons of Mass Destruction was published in 2004, Townsend stated it would be the last Adrian Mole volume. Several of the “Adrian Mole” series of novels have been adapted for the stage and performed in diverse places across the world from Australia to England. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ is the first book in the Adrian Mole series of comedic fiction, written by English author Sue Townsend.

In the third instalment of the hilarious Adrian Mole series, 16-year-old Adrian navigates his way into adulthood . This introduces you to the life and quirks of Adrian Mole and sets the stage for the subsequent books. But problems abound when, in a fit of madness, he agrees to become a TV chef on the show Offally Good. It's also interesting as a look at the '80s, as I didn't realise at first that they were written in the '80s as opposed to looking back at them.

When Adrian Mole decided to start a diary at the ripe old age of thirteen and three-quarters, he had no idea how far his words would reach. A phenomena of the 1980s, maybe not quite approaching Harry Potter proportions, but it's popularity cut across all age groups and it seemed everyone had read the book at some point.She also relies on him on occasion; when she becomes pregnant as a teenager, Adrian supports her decision to have an abortion. The various quirks of the diary format - the daily updates, some of them tiny and some of them epic, some of them written retroactively to account for terrifying motorway excursions, the snippets of poetry and letters - work entirely in the first two books' favour.