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Adelle Stripe's books include Base Notes, the Sunday Times bestselling Ten Thousand Apologies, and Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, a fictionalised biography inspired by the playwright Andrea Dunbar. Her writing has been shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize, Gordon Burn Prize, and Portico Prize for Literature. She lives in Calderdale, West Yorkshire. ...more

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Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile debuts with Les éditions du typhon

Adelle Stripe's 2017 novel, Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile [“Dents Noires et Sourire Radieux”] inspired by the life and work of Andrea Dunbar will debut in France on September 4th 2026 with Les éditions du typhon, an independent publishing house based in Marseille.

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	Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile 4.30 avg rating — 724 ratings	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
	Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure by Adelle Stripe (Goodreads Author), Lias Saoudi 4.39 avg rating — 702 ratings — 7 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
	Base Notes: Scenes from a Northern Girlhood 4.35 avg rating — 184 ratings — 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
	Stay Alive Till '75 4.06 avg rating — 34 ratings	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
	Sweating Tears with Fat White Family by Adelle Stripe (Goodreads Author), Lisa Cradduck (Illustrator) 4.56 avg rating — 25 ratings — 2 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
	Dark Corners of the Land 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012	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
	Cigarettes in Bed 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009	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
	Brutalism One: Nowhere Fast by Adelle Stripe (Goodreads Author), Tony O'Neill (Goodreads Author), Lisa Cradduck (Illustrator) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2008	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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	Some Things are Better Left Unsaid it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	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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“You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.”
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“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
― Gustav Flaubert

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“History's what people are trying to hide from you, not what they're trying to show you. You search for it in the same way you sift through a landfill: for evidence of what people want to bury.”
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