Books with author E. Townsend

The third book in the Fairie Ring Series. Grandolin has escaped to the world of humans. Christmas is approaching and Ryan is thinking of a gift for Elazandra. In an out of the way shop, the owner, Oz, is dealing in stolen goods from Fairie. Back in Fairie, the dragons are in an uproar; their privacy agreement has been breached and their eggs are being stolen. Elazandra investigates and is captured by the returned Grandolin. Oz is delaing with Grandolin in hope of finding the dying place of the unicorns, believeing their horns ground into powder will be a miraculous medicine ffor mankind and a fortune for him. Ryan and Ashlyn return to Fairie to rescue Elazandra, and the dragons, led by Fax, join in Grandolin's defeat.

Adrian Mole has entered early middle age and is now 'the same age as Jesus was when he died' (33). Father to the grammatically challenged Glenn, and William, who takes a 'Big Boy Arouser' condom to nursery school as his innocent contribution to a hot air balloon project, Adrian is a single parent who has an on/off relationship with his housing officer, Pamela Pigg. Will she help him to move from the notorious Gaitskell estate before William joins the Mad Frankie Fraser fan club? In the meantime, Adrian continues to be scandalised by his irresponsible parents who are conducting a matrimonial square-dance with the Braithwaites - the parents of the beautiful but unobtainable Pandora, who is ruthlessly pursuing her ambition to be New Labour's first woman P.M. - and to confide in his diary. His current worries include: indestructible head-lice; his raging jealousy when his accomplished half-brother Brett arrives on his doorstep; moral decline in The Archers; his desperate attachment to two therapists; his mild addiction to Starburst (formerly Opal Fruits); a small earthquake in Leicester; and, perhaps most significantly, the dawn of a new millennium.