Adrian Laing is a leading UK media lawyer and writer who combines his life-long interests in law, psychology, and Arthurian mythology to powerful effect in his fantasy novel Kosmos.

Adrian is also script advisor for the Ettinger Brothers’ planned cinema film The Divided Self based on his widely acclaimed biography RD Laing: A Life about his father, the renowned 1960s counter-culture psychiatrist.

After working in private practice and industry, Adrian qualified as both a solicitor (being enrolled as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court in 2003) and a barrister (having been called to the Bar in 1979 aged just 21). His years practising at the criminal bar defending and prosecuting in jury trials has provided rich seam of experience to use with great effect in Kosmos. He also crammed in a sabbatical year studying with the French philosopher Michel Foucault, in Paris.

Leaving criminal law, he worked as the Assistant Head of Licensing at the ITC (Incorporated Television Company) during the Channel 3 franchise process and then as a full-time consultant to the Chief Executive of Thames Television Richard Dunn. Moving into publishing he became the first Director of Legal Affairs and Company Secretary at HarperCollins Publishers (part of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire), working with some of Britain’s leading authors and agents.

Along with these achievements, he has written many textbooks on Media Law, including some co-authored with his wife Deborah Fosbrook. One result of his prolific career is that he jokes there are few better qualified people to bluff about the law, hence his book the Bluffer’s Guide to Law. He has also taken a wry look at celebrity therapy in his 2013 novel Rehab Blues and somehow found time either to present or chair a leading seminar for The London Book Fair from 2003 to 2012.