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Adrian Plass

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born

The United Kingdom

gender

male

website

http://www.adrianplass.com/

genre

Humor, Religion & Spirituality

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Adrian Plass is a writer and speaker who has produced over thirty books in the last twenty years. The best known of these is probably The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, a gentle satire on the modern church, which has sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide. This and other books have travelled to other countries and are translated into a number of foreign languages. Other books include biography, novels, short stories, a fictionalised account of the author's experiences as a residential child care worker, and collections of poems and sketches. A bemused Anglican, Adrian lives with his wife and daughter in a small market town near the Sussex South Downs.

Adrian has been in demand as a speaker in venues as varied as prisons, schools, chur...more Adrian Plass is a writer and speaker who has produced over thirty books in the last twenty years. The best known of these is probably The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, a gentle satire on the modern church, which has sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide. This and other books have travelled to other countries and are translated into a number of foreign languages. Other books include biography, novels, short stories, a fictionalised account of the author's experiences as a residential child care worker, and collections of poems and sketches. A bemused Anglican, Adrian lives with his wife and daughter in a small market town near the Sussex South Downs.

Adrian has been in demand as a speaker in venues as varied as prisons, schools, churches, festivals, literary dinners and theatrical settings. His work also includes contribution to national and local radio and television. Live presentations combine humour, poetry, and story telling, largely revolving around his own inadequacies and struggles as a Christian and a human being.

In recent years Adrian has been joined by his wife Bridget in presenting a more varied and dramatic style of performance. Adrian and Bridget met at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and have found particular satisfaction in being allowed to ‘do a bit of acting’. They have also been privileged to work alongside World Vision on several occasions, visiting Bangladesh and Zambia, writing two books and touring both in the UK and abroad with the aim of encouraging people to take up child sponsorship

Their work now takes them as far away as Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Africa, while trips to Europe have introduced the added dimension of speaking through interpreters. Not easy when you're trying to be funny!

Adrian's latest books include ‘Jesus Safe Tender and Extreme‘, published by Zondervan, ‘Blind Spots in the Bible’, published by BRF, and most recent of all ‘Bacon Sandwiches and Salvation’ published by Authentic Media. He and Bridget have also collaborated with friends in Canada to produce a CD of his favourite sketches from the last 20 years called ‘Preaching to the Converted’ while ‘A Touch of Plass’, CTA’s documentary video, is now out on DVD.

2008 began with a visit to Bolivia for Bridget and Adrian in collaboration with the charity Toybox to look at projects involving street children. Later on there will be a DVD, a book and a number of presentations promoting their work.

Adrian's central motivation continues to be his love for Jesus, although some may feel he expresses it rather eccentrically. His passion is to communicate the need for reality in faith, and a truth that he learned during a difficult stage in his life: "God is nice and he likes me..." Some have described his work as being ‘one long confessional’. They may well be right!(less)

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Books by Adrian Plass

Average rating: 3.99 · 874 ratings · 126 reviews · 64 distinct works

	The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass Aged 37 3/4 4.28 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 1987 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Adrian Plass, Sacred Diarist, Presents The Horizontal Epistles Of Andromeda Veal 4.11 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Theatrical Tapes of Leonard Thynn 4.29 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, Christian Speaker, Aged 45 3/4 4.13 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Ghosts: The Story of a Reunion 3.51 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	My rating:
	An Alien at St Wilfred's 3.70 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Growing Up Pains of Adrian Plass 3.89 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1989	My rating:
	View from a Bouncy Castle 3.67 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	Stress Family Robinson 3.83 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, on Tour: Aged Far Too Much to Be Put on the Front Cover of a Book 4.12 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating: