All the Adrian Mole books are great especially the cappucino years, have not read the new one yet though. I did not think much of Townsend's other books though (Number ten, Escaping coventry etc..). There is one Mole book that i believe was just released in America called the lost years it is the wilderness years with about 100 pages of new story added to the front to fill the gap a little inbetween books.