Adrian Mole & The Weapons of Mass Destruction" is the sixth book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny " Adrian Mole" series. Wednesday April 2nd. My birthday. I am thirty-five today. I am officially middle-aged. It is all downhill from now. A pathetic slide towards gum disease wheelchair ramps & death. Adrian Mole is middle-aged but still scribbling. Working as a bookseller & living in Leicester's Rat Wharf; finding time to write letters of advice to Tim Henman & Tony Blair; locked in mortal combat with a vicious swan called Gielgud; measuring his expanding bald spot; & trying to win-over the voluptuous Daisy... Adrian yearns for a better more meaningful world. But he's not ready to surrender his pen yet... Bestselling author Sue Townsend has been Britain's favourite comic writer for over three decades. " Hilarious. Deft gleeful mockery impales modish fads from home make-overs to new-age crazes while fiercer irony is trained on the country's involvement with Iraq". (" Sunday Times"). " Richly comic.. .stuffed full of humour tragedy vanity pathos & very occasionally wisdom". (" Guardian"). " Completely hilarious laugh-out-loud a joy". (" Daily Mirror"). Sue Townsend is Britain's favourite comic author. Her hugely successful novels include eight " Adrian Mole" books " The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 55)" " Number Ten" " Ghost Children" " The Queen & I" " Queen Camilla" & " The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year" all of which are highly acclaimed bestsellers. She has also written numerous well-received plays. She lives in Leicester where she was born & grew up."