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Adelle Stripe
Writer
Adelle Stripe is an author and journalist who lives in West Yorkshire, UK.
Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, her debut novel, was a fictionalised biography based on the life and work of playwright Andrea Dunbar. It was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and Portico Prize for Literature. Her biography of the cult band Fat White Family, Ten Thousand Apologies, was a Sunday Times bestseller and a Rough Trade book of the year. It was shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize.
Base Notes, her most recent work, is a poetic, poignant and bleakly comic chronicle of her formative years growing up in a northern brewery town during the late 20th century. The Observer described it as 'a small, bleak masterpiece.' It was a Telegraph book of the year.
