Adelle Stripe is a writer and journalist. Her debut novel, Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, was a fictionalised biography based on the playwright, Andrea Dunbar. It was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and Portico Prize for Literature. Ten Thousand Apologies, her recent bestselling music biography inspired by the strange life and curious times of the notorious UK band, Fat White Family, is a Rough Trade book of the year. 

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