Adrian Mole"s pen is scribbling for the twenty-first century - working as a bookseller and living in Leicester"s Rat Wharf; finding time to write letters of advice to Tim Henman and Tony Blair; locked in mortal combat with a vicious swan called Gielgud; measuring his expanding bald spot; and, trying to escape the clutches of Marigold and win over her voluptuous sister Daisy...Adrian still yearns for a better, more meaningful world. And he"s not ready to surrender his pen yet ...