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Grace Dent

Born

in Carlisle, The United Kingdom

October 03, 1973

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British columnist, broadcaster and author.

Between 2003-2010, Dent published eleven young adult novels, and was also a presenter on BBC2's The Culture Show, and a magazine and newspaper journalist, including a TV column for the Guardian.

From 2011 to 2017 she wrote a restaurant column for the Evening Standard, and became the Guardian's restaurant critic in 2018. She is a regular judge on the BBC's MasterChef UK and makes frequent appearances in Channel 4's television series Very British Problems.

Grace said in her role as an author for teens: ‘....kids who claim to have never read anything longer than a text message are ploughing through my books nagging me for the next one. This makes me insanely proud.’

She lives in East London with her hu ...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 11,775 ratings · 1,062 reviews · 28 distinct works • Similar authors

	Hungry 4.36 avg rating — 6,460 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trainers V. Tiaras (Diary of a Chav, #1) 3.67 avg rating — 1,008 ratings — published 2007 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Comfort Eating: What We Eat When Nobody's Looking 4.16 avg rating — 783 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Leave Twitter 3.19 avg rating — 576 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It's a Girl Thing (LBD #1) 3.23 avg rating — 524 ratings — published 2000 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Posh and Prejudice (Diary of a Chav, #2) 3.59 avg rating — 416 ratings — published 2007 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Too Cool for School (Diary of a Chav, #3) 3.77 avg rating — 382 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poor Little Rich Girl (Diary of a Snob, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 320 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ibiza Nights (Diary of a Chav, #4) 3.69 avg rating — 295 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Live & Fabulous! (LBD #2) 3.49 avg rating — 250 ratings — published 2004 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“No, the rules of sneaking into upper-class spaces and passing as posh were much more nuanced; it was a spurious cocktail of bluffing and well-timed name-dropping, mixed with an air of pseudo-effortless confidence and sometimes, when faced with someone who was trying to impress you, giving”
― Grace Dent, Hungry: The highly anticipated memoir, from Celebrity Masterchef’s new judge Grace Dent

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“The longer I lived in London, the further the gap grew between my tastes and theirs. And the more bewildered they were by my life choices. They were politely bewildered by my choice to get married in Vegas, wearing a forty-quid Laura Ashley tea frock, using witnesses”
― Grace Dent, Hungry: The highly anticipated memoir, from Celebrity Masterchef’s new judge Grace Dent

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“If whelk is the first name on the list, it will almost definitely be course number one – unless the chef sends out three or four unadvertised courses beforehand, boosting the eight-course lunch up to twelve. I realise that nowadays almost all five-course tasting menus are actually around eight courses, because the chef will send ‘palate cleansers’ and ‘amuse-bouches’ and ‘snacks’ and ‘extra courses’. This will seem generous but is actually just the restaurant buying time – a bit like when you go to a Beyoncé gig and three of the tracks are videos of her daughter at a family party, which is really cute, but it’s just filler so Beyoncé can sit down and change her wig.”
― Grace Dent, Hungry: The highly anticipated memoir, from Celebrity Masterchef’s new judge Grace Dent

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