Celebrate Adrian Mole's 50th Birthday with this new edition of the seventh book in his diaries where Adrian falls in love, is inconvenienced by the war and faces his new nemesis: a swan from the local canal

As funny as anything Townsend has written, in which the loft-dwelling Mole wrestles with credit-card debt, WMD and where to find a dentist

The funniest book of the year. I can think of no more comical read

He will be remembered some day as one of England's great diarists

The funniest person in the world

"A handsome, collectable hardback edition"

In a literary world which is so often either relaxed into the flabby indifference of review-speak, or corseted into position with the strings and eyelets of critical jargon, James Wood's tone is invaluable

He is one of literature's true lovers, and his deeply felt, contentious essays are thrilling in their reach and moral seriousness

James Wood is an authentic literary critic, very rare in this bad time. One can dissent gently from his judgements but he is always urgent, lucid, and interesting

The mysteries are never tainted by explanation, merely beautifully described, delivering a hypnotic read

'For sheer love of a thumping narrative, the novel delivers gloriously-Inventive, alluring' David Mitchell

'Murakami's most addictive fix to date'

'Engrossing and wildly inventive'

Top marks. Fantastic

Lovely

Moving and intelligent

Magnetic, unpretentious and bursting with one-liners

Fans of chick-lit will understand when I say that this is a book you simply disappear into