A new edition of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ is to be released in October to mark the book's 40th anniversary, featuring a forward by journalist and writer Caitlin Moran.

The third book in the exquisitely funny Adrian Mole series by Sue Townsend, following on from The Secret Diary and The Growing Pains, it is now 1991 and our diarist is 23. The Wilderness Years is ...

She gave him some handwritten entries of a diary of Nigel Mole. By 1990 Sue Townsend had become the bestselling author of the 1980s in terms of individual books - out-stripping Jeffrey Archer ...