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Adelle Stripe

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York, The United Kingdom

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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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The Library of Lazy Thinking: Adelle Stripe on Harry Crews

The Library of Lazy Thinking is a place for those who love books to hang out. It’s a place to find interesting reading recommendations. It’s a place to ponder literature (and life) in general. It’s a library of “lazy” thinking so unfinished thoughts can develop without an agenda, without pressure, and without the need to draw concrete conclusions. It’s thinking for the pleasure of thinking, whatev Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 4.31 · 1,932 ratings · 246 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile 4.30 avg rating — 690 ratings — 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
	Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure by Adelle Stripe (Goodreads Author), Lias Saoudi (Co-author) 4.39 avg rating — 649 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: The Scents of a Life 4.52 avg rating — 95 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 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 31 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) 4.54 avg rating — 24 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
	Flashback: Parties For The People By The People by Adelle Stripe (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Anna Wood (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Fergal Kinney (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 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
	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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Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

by Caroline Fraser

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A Visit from the Goon Squad

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Self Portraits

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Adelle’s Quotes

“You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.”
― Dennis Potter, The Singing Detective

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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.”
― Hilary Mantel, Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir

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