RECORDS
LETTERS
THE CALL: This Headline Contains No Puns
CHRISTINA AMPHLETT
DIRT WORK BEHIND THE SCENES
ROCK ’N’ ROLL NEWS
When you’ve spent your adolescent years, as The Dauph has, in places like Berlin, Casablanca and Tijuana, it can be odd relating to a fictional diary of a boy undergoing puberty in a nondescript town in present-day Thatcher-land. Still, this book, brash and British to the core, hooked this world-weary scribbler from its opening entry and didn’t let up until its protagonist, Adrian Mole, had crossed over from a bumbling youth of 13-and3/4 to a still bumbling youth of 16-and-1/6.