The Private Blog of Joe Cowley
The Private Blog of Joe Cowley is a teen realistic fiction novel series by British author Ben Davis, and also the title of the first book in the series.
The four books in the series are The Private Blog of Joe Cowley (2014) and Return of the Geek (2015), Welcome to Cringefest, 2016 and Straight Outta Nerdsville (2017). The books are published by Oxford University Press.
The books follow the mishaps of 14 year old Joe Cowley, who loves Star Trek, fails horribly at impressing girls and hangs out with his friends Harry and Ad, who want to go to a fictional music festival called Buzzfest. He lives with his stepbrother Gav, who bullied him at the start of the first book as well as his mum and her boyfriend "Jim the Plasterer". The series was received well by critics, praising its humour and characters.[1]
Books in the series
| # | Title | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Private Blog of Joe Cowley (ISBN 978-0192736758) | 3 April 2014 | Joe Cowley is struggling to get a girlfriend. His friends are trying to get him killed in order to get to Buzzfest. And then, the bully Gav moves in with him. But when he meets Natalie, everything changes. |
| 2 | Return of the Geek (ISBN 978-0192736963) | 2 April 2015 | Joe Cowley is living a happy life with Natalie until he meets her parents, who hate him. A boy called Seb enters a DJ Competition that could get them to Buzzfest, so him, Harry and Ad join in. Everything is going well until Joe begins to learn about Natalie and Seb's past. |
| 3 | Welcome to Cringefest (ISBN 978-0192744814) | 7 April 2016 | Natalie has dumped Joe Cowley after he kissed Lisa Hall. He attempts a number of Grand Gestures at Buzzfest in a futile attempt to win her back, but she is now seeing Greeny who has lost half of his body weight since January. Meanwhile, his Mum has had two twins, Holly and Ivy, who will not stop crying. The gang head to Buzzfest but not all goes to plan... |
| 4 | Straight Outta Nerdsville | 1 April 2017 | Joe, Greeny, Ad and Harry are living it up in London with Joe's Girlfriend Mila. But when the band go on tour Joe has to stop Kristoff from weaselling into Joe's and Mila's relationship. And if thats not enough Joe has to deal a crazy driver, a lunatic Dad and most importantly and physco manager. What can go wrong??? |