Sue Townsend  

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Susan Lillian "Sue" Townsend, FRSL (2 April 1946 – 10 April 2014) was an English novelist and playwright, best known as the author of the Adrian Mole books. Although her writing primarily combined comedy with social commentary, she also wrote purely dramatic works.

Works

Adrian Mole series

• The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ (1982), her best selling book, and the best-selling new British fiction book of the 1980s.
• The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (1984)
• The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole (1989)
• Adrian Mole From Minor to Major (1991) is an omnibus of the first three, and includes as a bonus the specially written Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians.
• Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (1993)
• Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (1999)
• Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (2004)
• The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999–2001 (2008)
• Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years (2009)

Other novels

• Rebuilding Coventry (1988)
• The Queen and I (1992), a story about the British royal family living a "normal" life on an urban housing estate following a republican revolution.
• Ghost Children (1997), a novel treating the issues of bereavement, child abuse and women's self-esteem in relation to body image.
• Number Ten (2002)
• Queen Camilla (2006)
• The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year (2012)

Plays

• Womberang (Soho Poly – 1979)
• The Ghost of Daniel Lambert (Leicester Haymarket Theatre – 1981) Theatre closed in January 2007
• Dayroom (Croydon Warehouse Theatre – 1981)
• Captain Christmas and the Evil Adults (Phoenix Arts Theatre – 1982) now known as the Phoenix Arts Centre
• Bazaar and Rummage (Royal Court Theatre – 1982)
• Groping for Words (Croydon Warehouse – 1983)
• The Great Celestial Cow (Royal Court Theatre and tour – 1984)
• The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13Template:Frac-The Play (Leicester Phoenix – 1984) now known as Phoenix Arts Centre
• Disneyland it Ain't (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs – 1989)
• Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes (Library Theatre, Manchester – 1989)
• The Queen and I (Vaudeville Theatre – 1994, toured Australia in the summer of 1996 and was entitled The Royals Down Under)

Non-fiction

• Mr Bevan's Dream: Why Britain Needs Its Welfare State (1989)
• The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (2001)