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 ...

As the BBC prepares to update the Mole saga with an adaptation of Sue Townsend's book, Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years, the Daily Mail has tracked down the actor who first took the role on TV 16 ...

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 ...