Adrian Plass is a British author and speaker who writes primarily Christian humour, but also short stories, Bible commentaries and novels with a more serious tone. His most popular books are a series concerning The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass which is a humorous, fictional satire of Christian life which has sold over a million copies worldwide.
His most popular book The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass Aged 37¾, the title of which parodies Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole books, is a humorous, fictional satire of Christian life. Plass followed this up with a sequel in 1997, called The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass Christian Speaker Aged 45 3/4, in which as a prominent Christian speaker he tours Australia with his fictional wife Anne and son Gerald. A third in the series, The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, on Tour: Aged Far Too Much to Be Put on the Front Cover of a Book was published in 2004. By 2005 this series had sold over a million copies worldwide.
He travels around Britain and the world as speaker. Some of his early talks and sketches are brought together in the books Cabbages for the King (1993) and Clearing Away the Rubbish (1988).
From 2001-2006 Plass 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.
In 2006 Plass published his book Blind Spots in the Bible in which he looks at forty passages in the Bible that in the past he has had trouble with. Reviewing this book, The Church Times said that he treated the biblical text with kid gloves so the investigation is personal application with a great deal of autobiographical material (probably too much), and concludes there is a great deal to mull over. The Church of England Newspaper says that although it would unrealistic to claim Plass has solved all the mysteries, he does offer interesting theories which lead to one major conclusion.' that is A Caring God, and concludes there is much to think about, although fundamentalist Christians may not agree with the author.
In 2009 Plass published a novel Silver Birches based on his experiences of a group of old friends meeting for a reunion.
Adrian Plass worked as a residential child care worker 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.
Plass is an Anglican who lives with his wife Bridget in Scargill House in Yorkshire, England.
