Adrian Plass

Adrian Plass is a British author who writes primarily Christian humour, but also short stories, Bible commentaries and novels with a more serious tone. His most famous book is "The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass Aged 37¾", the title of which parodies Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole books. This is a humorous, fictional satire of Christian life, including such moments as trying to move a paperclip by faith and the enthusiastic but not very talented young Christian band, 'Bad News for the Devil'.

Plass followed this up with a sequel in 1997, called "The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass Christian Speaker Aged 45 3/4", in which he became a prominent Christian speaker and toured Australia with his fictional wife Anne and son Gerald.

Adrian wrote another diary known as "The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, on Tour: Aged Far Too Much to Be Put on the Front Cover of a Book" in 2004.

Plass also teamed up with Focus on the Family Radio Theatre in their original miniseries "Father Gilbert Mysteries" to provide the voice of the lead character, Father Louis Gilbert, a former London police detective who became an Anglican priest and now solves spiritual mysteries in the fictional Sussex village of Stonebridge.

Adrian Plass (1948, Tunbridge Wells) worked with disadvantaged children for several years before suffering a breakdown and then embarking on a career as a writer. The first thing he ever wrote was "The Visit", a short novel in which a fictional local Church in England is visited by Jesus (published in England only as part of the short stories collection "The Final Boundary"). "Der Besuch" is the German version of the novel which was made into a 40 minutes film in 2006. He recorded his experience as a youth worker in the novel "Broken Windows, Broken Lives".

He also travels around Britain and the world as speaker. Some of his talks and sketches are brought together in "Cabbages for the King" and "Clearing Away the Rubbish".

Plass is an Anglican who lives with his wife Bridget in East Sussex, England.

Works

* "Adrians Adventskalender" (only in German)
* "Adrians Neuer Adventskalender" (only in German)
* An Alien at St. Wilfred's
* And Jesus Will Be Born
* Bacon Sandwiches and Salvation
* Blind Spots in the Bible
* Broken Windows, Broken Lives
* Cabbages for the King
* Clearing away the Rubbish
* Colours of Survival
* Father to the Man
* The Final Boundary
* Ghosts
* The Growing-up Pains of Adrian Plass
* Jesus - Safe, Tender and Extreme
* The Heart of the Family
* The Horizontal Epistles of Andromeda Veal
* Never Mind the Reversing Ducks
* Nothing But the Truth
* Philip Illiot, Biography
* Plass At Christmas
* The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass Aged 37 3/4
* The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, Christian Speaker Aged 45 3/4
* The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, on Tour: Aged Far Too Much to Be Put on the Front Cover of a Book
* A Smile on the Face of God
* Stress Family Robinson
* Stress Family Robinson 2
* The Theatrical Tapes of Leonard Thynn
* The Unlocking
* View from a Bouncy Castle
* The Visit
* When You Walk
* Why I follow Jesus
* Words from the Cross
* A Year at St. Yorick's
* You Say Tomato

External links

* [http://www.adrianplass.com/ Adrian Plass's Website]
* [http://www.premier.tv/?void=48713 Interview with Adrian at Premier.tv]