Oh, Pandora. Where Art Thou?

Adrian Mole is 45. Can we possibly bear it? The first Adrian Mole installment, of course, is the very last word on hopelessly awkward adolescence one can possibly imagine, and the cornerstone of any decent library, but in recent years the experience has been more akin to watching the (incredible) Up Series unfold: full of creeping existential horror for all.

More personal humiliation and fewer interminable references to New Labour*, please!

*To be fair, Adrian being adorably wrong about the Falklands and the Hitler Diaries was always part of his charm. Charles and Di will be together forever, did you know?