The series begins when Mole is a thirteen-year-old delinquent and ends when he finds out he will be a grandfather at the age of forty-two.
[1] A sequel was produced in 2011 to highlight the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, and Townsend had been working on another Adrian Mole book at the time of her death in April 2014.
He was the elder brother to Susan Mole, his lesbian sister, who married a woman called Amanda and works in Holloway Prison.
George took a job selling electrical storage heaters, but he is later made redundant; he later finds re-employment maintaining the banks of the local canal.
These relationships both end sourly - Martin leaves Pauline for Adrian's girlfriend Bianca, and Belinda throws George out when she discovers that he has been selling her product in back-street boozers for half their retail value.
This life continues for a while until the general election, when Adrian's childhood sweetheart Pandora Braithwaite became Ashby-de-la-Zouch's Labour MP in a landslide vote.
Tania offered George a shoulder to cry on at the Braithwaite homestead, The Lawns, and they began a relationship, successfully bemusing and confusing Adrian, Pandora, Rosie and William.
One of his less attractive qualities is his openly saying that he married Adrian's mother Pauline because of "how good her legs looked in a miniskirt".
Brett re-appeared again in The Prostrate Years as a successful businessman who lost his empire and three riverside apartments in London, Tokyo and New York City to the credit crunch.
He informs the Mole family that Doreen Slater died in a motorbike accident which, to Adrian, seemed to be a fabricated version of what really happened - there were a few facts that did not add up.
Brett bought ten packs of white cotton shirts and threw each one away after only a day's wear.
Jojo Mapfumo (previously Mole) is Adrian's first wife and mother of William, his younger son.
Jojo complains that exaggerating her sneezes is the last thing she would do, being a six-foot, pregnant black woman in extravagant dress.
Between the events of The Lost Diaries and Weapons of Mass Destruction, Jojo takes William back to Nigeria, much to the heartache of Adrian, Glenn, Pauline and George.
William telephones his father, and asks if he can change his name to Wole, like his stepfather's, to which Adrian reluctantly agrees.
They move into the converted pigsty next to George and Pauline, and produce a daughter named Gracie, who enjoys dressing up as various Disney princesses.
Glenn and Adrian meet for the first time on Father's Day 1998, causing a tense atmosphere over the Mole household.
Glenn's paternal grandmother, Pauline Mole (then Braithwaite) says that she can like the child, but love could take some working on.
Jojo never sees her son, and William never asks about her, yet he surprises Adrian by crying for his mother at the Safeway's crèche.
William occasionally calls his father, and asks his consent to change his name to Wole like his stepfather.
Gracie is, by nature, an obnoxious child who refuses to wear her school uniform and goes in the costumes of various Disney princesses.
Tania begins educating George, the second time he has had such an experience since splitting with his ex-mistress Belinda Bellingham, and the two live in the Braithwaite house, an elegant design made in the late 1970s and named 'The Lawns'.
However, Tania is horrified to learn of Ivan's untimely death and is saddened further when her husband George leaves her to comfort his ex-wife.
Michael Flowers is the husband of Netta, father of Daisy, Poppy and Marigold and grandfather of Gracie.
Michael owns a shop on Leicester High Street, County Organics, selling flower seeds.
A thirty-something on-the-shelf depressive who works at Country Organics and accidentally becomes Adrian's girlfriend and later fiancée.
Her hobby is building miniature dollhouses; she performs as Mary in a peripatetic Nativity with the Leicester Mummers, and is even less fun than this sounds.
A scare runs through the Flowers and Mole families when Marigold announces she is pregnant, much to Adrian's horror.
A Scientologist mathematics teacher whose distinguishing feature and main reason for living is her extraordinarily long hair.
She is not enthusiastic about her parents and medievalism; she prefers the Romans for their civilising influence and "amazing hair products".