Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend

I don't know whether to weep in despair or breathe a sigh of relief knowing that Adrian Mole is mostly the same loser we knew 20 years ago. In Sue Townsend's latest Adrian Mole book, our bespectacled protaganist starts his diary by writing a letter to his travel agent asking for a refund for a holiday to Cyprus seeing that Saddam Hussein harbours weapons of mass destruction and said weapons were in reach of Cyprus.

We then follow his life as he finds himself in increasing debt as he spends compulsively with his credit cards and finds himself trapped in near-matrimonial hell with a needy, depressive girl called Marigold. To make matters worse, he finds himself falling in love with Marigold's half-Mexican sister.

Adrian Mole continues the laugh-out loud humour of the previous books in the series and is a constant page-turner. My boss even found myself stealing a read from it once. So embarassing. A recommended read though.

And if you're wondering, yes, he's still in love Pandora.