Adrian's Biography

Adrian Plass is a writer and speaker who has produced more than twenty books in the last eighteen years. Best known is the Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, a gentle satire on the modern church, which has sold more than a million copies worldwide. This and other books have now traveled to many other countries and are translated into a number of foreign languages. Other books include biography, bible commentary, novels, short stories, a fictional account of Adrian’s experiences as a young residential social worker and collections of poems and sketches.

In recent years Adrian has been in demand as a speaker in venues as varied as prisons, churches, theatres, literary dinners, festivals and schools. His work also includes contributions to national and local radio and television. His live performances combine humour, poetry and story telling, usually revolving around his struggles as a Christian and a human being. For the last few years Adrian has been involved with recording Focus on the Family’s Radio Theatre, playing the title role in the Father Gilbert Mysteries.

A bemused Anglican, Adrian lives with his wife Bridget and their daughter Kate in a small market town near the South Downs in the county of East Sussex in England. Three grown-up sons have now left home.

Adrian’s motivation is his love of Jesus although some may say, and indeed have said, that he expresses it somewhat eccentrically. His passion is to communicate the need for reality in faith, and a truth he learned during an extremely difficult stage in his life: "God is nice and he likes me."

Where possible Adrian is joined by his wife Bridget in presenting a more varied and dramatic style of performance. Their material includes both light hearted and serious reflections on Christian living, the church, marriage and family life. They met at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and find particular satisfaction in returning to their artistic roots.

Their work takes them as far away as Australia, New Zealand and South Africa and trips to Europe have introduced the added dimension of speaking through interpreters. Not easy when you’re trying to be funny! More recent trips abroad have been in connection with World Vision. A visit to Bangladesh in 2000 was followed by a jointly written book and U.K. tour aimed at promoting child sponsorship, a cause close to their hearts. 2003 will see them visiting Uganda and Zambia with a view to writing another book ,aimed this time at raising awareness of the need for churches, especially in the US, to give more generously to World Vision Aids related work. As always the task seems way above their abilities but they have long since given up trying to understand God! Bridget has written two books herself for BRF and is at present working on a third.

Adrian’s most recent published works include a bible commentary on Mark’s gospel, entitled ‘Never Mind the Reversing Ducks’, and a novel, ‘Ghosts’, which is soon to be released in the U.S. He is at present working on his first secular novel, while remaining unsure about what a ‘secular novel’ actually is.