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Adelle Stripe

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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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Base Notes Paperback

The paperback edition of Adelle Stripe's Base Notes: Scenes from a Northern Girlhood is now available for pre-order online at Forum Books (with a personalised signed dedication) or via your local independent bookshop. The cover has been designed by Ola Galewicz and will be published on Feb 12th 2026.

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Base Notes Scenes from a Northern Girlhood by Adelle Stripe

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Average rating: 4.31 · 2,033 ratings · 257 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile 4.31 avg rating — 709 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 4.39 avg rating — 679 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 4.40 avg rating — 143 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 4.03 avg rating — 32 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
	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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Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists

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“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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