Adrian Bloom

Advantages: excellent book, great ideas
Disadvantages: none

...Winter Garden Glory by Adrian Bloom is a book which will inspire the all weather gardener to create a winter haven in their garden. A lovely book to look through let alone read, it contains some beautiful photographs which show the potential of many plants to delight in the coldest and darkest months of the year. Photographs of the awesome winter garden at "foggy bottom" give a taste of how many grasses and permanent plants can lift a garden when shrouded in a misty light or the glint of the early morning frost. This book brilliantly illustrates how to combine the bare stems and branches of winter trees and shrubs with the evergreen of conifers and other broadleaved plants which will retain a covering of leaves throughout the winter. Planting plans guide you toward achieving the grand schemes of "foggy bottom" in the more... Read review

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...If as a teenager you loved the Adrian Mole books, this is the one for you. Adrian is now a thirty something chef, a single parent and still hopelessley in love with Pandora Braithwaite! Pandora is now a Politician and Adrian still fantisizes constantly about her. Adrian gets his own tv series as a celebrity chef! The book is very light reading and will have you in stitches. The book finishes on a cliff hanger with plenty of opportunities for a follow, so what I want to know is when is the next one out Sue?... Read review

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Advantages: Hilarious
Disadvantages: Some people think it is too similar to old books

...Adrian Mole is now 30 ¼ and it is May 1 1997. Adrian’s life is very different from the last time we met him. He is now a celebrity offal chef and he has one, maybe two sons. However, some things never change - he is still worrying and has still failed to get his novel “Lo! The Flat Hills of My Homeland” (renamed “Birdwatching”) published. Pandora is now a prospective Labour MP, Barry Kent is a novelist and prize-winning poet, Adrian’s father is unemployed, his mother thinks she has wasted her life, his sister is a foul-mouthed 15 year-old, his son, William, is obsessed with Jeremy Clarkson and Nigel is a gay Buddhist van driver. There are many new people in Adrian Mole’s life including Dev Singh, his co-host on “Offally Good!” and Jo Jo, who is Adrian’s Nigerian wife who has returned to her home country. All of this makes for another... Read review

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