Adrian Keane

Advantages: Comprehensive, up-to-date, academic critic
Disadvantages: sometimes too comprehensive in areas

...manual. In particular i fould the pace codes easy to understand as keane took each one in turn defined what the content was and then relayed the appropiate article or alternative/ supporting legilation. The chapters on character evidence are extremely well written, and make up a considerable chunk of this book. It is divided up into good charactor and bad charator as opposed to the victim and defendant as in some other books. Keane doesnt provide any further reading information at the end of the chapters, however throughout academic works are refered to, so it is just a case of picking out the references from the text. i would recommend reading a less comprehensive book 1st before reading this one. Its good value for money and would be useful in practice therefore not purely confined to using at uni or school. This book also contains quite... 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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