Adelle Stripe
@adellestripe.bsky.social
Author & Journalist. Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, Ten Thousand Apologies and Base Notes.
https://bio.site/adellestripe
https://bio.site/adellestripe
I have reviewed Jeff Young’s most excellent Wild Twin in the new edition of Tribune (out in the shops this week)…
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@wildtwin.bsky.social
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@wildtwin.bsky.social
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Rimbaud of Maghull
Liverpool writer Jeff Young has attracted a dedicated readership in recent years, following publication of two books that powerfully and hypnotically catalogue late-1970s Europe and his native Merseys...
tribunemag.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I have reviewed Jeff Young’s most excellent Wild Twin in the new edition of Tribune (out in the shops this week)…
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@wildtwin.bsky.social
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/rimb...
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@wildtwin.bsky.social
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/rimb...
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"There is more realness in Dennis Potter’s weirdness than in the majority of overwrought series striving for authenticity" An excellent @thequietus.com long read by Darran Anderson on one of the greatest writers ever to work in television
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
How Dennis Potter's TV Plays Were Guides to the Purgatory of the Modern Age | The Quietus
Darran Anderson gets to grips with the brilliant body of work created by revolutionary television playwright Dennis Potter
thequietus.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
"There is more realness in Dennis Potter’s weirdness than in the majority of overwrought series striving for authenticity" An excellent @thequietus.com long read by Darran Anderson on one of the greatest writers ever to work in television
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
I have recorded a podcast on Harry Crews & his masterpiece A Childhood: The Biography of a Place for the Library of Lazy Thinking…
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Adelle Stripe on A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
Author Adelle Stripe talks to Glenn Fisher about her pick for the library, the 1978 memoir A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews
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November 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I have recorded a podcast on Harry Crews & his masterpiece A Childhood: The Biography of a Place for the Library of Lazy Thinking…
lazythinking.substack.com/p/adelle-str...
lazythinking.substack.com/p/adelle-str...
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MISS PYM’s DAY OUT, on the iPlayer for the next 26 days, is delightful!
A drama doc about Barbara Pym’s trip to London for the Booker Prize ceremony - featuring Patricia Routledge as Pym, various Excellent Women and cameos from Jilly Cooper & Penelope Lively! #BookSky
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
A drama doc about Barbara Pym’s trip to London for the Booker Prize ceremony - featuring Patricia Routledge as Pym, various Excellent Women and cameos from Jilly Cooper & Penelope Lively! #BookSky
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Miss Pym's Day Out: Bookmark
Dramatised documentary about the writer Barbara Pym, depicting one day in her life - 23 November 1977 - when she travelled to London to attend the Booker Prize ceremony.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
MISS PYM’s DAY OUT, on the iPlayer for the next 26 days, is delightful!
A drama doc about Barbara Pym’s trip to London for the Booker Prize ceremony - featuring Patricia Routledge as Pym, various Excellent Women and cameos from Jilly Cooper & Penelope Lively! #BookSky
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
A drama doc about Barbara Pym’s trip to London for the Booker Prize ceremony - featuring Patricia Routledge as Pym, various Excellent Women and cameos from Jilly Cooper & Penelope Lively! #BookSky
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Felicitations to @bookshop.org who are celebrating five years of supporting indie booksellers across the country today. If you are an author, you can sell your own books on there too as an affiliate…
uk.bookshop.org/shop/adelles...
uk.bookshop.org/shop/adelles...
Adelle Stripe Bookshop UK
Adelle Stripe's books include the Sunday Times bestseller, Ten Thousand Apologies, and Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, a fictionalised biography inspired by the playwright Andrea Dunbar. Her writin...
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November 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Felicitations to @bookshop.org who are celebrating five years of supporting indie booksellers across the country today. If you are an author, you can sell your own books on there too as an affiliate…
uk.bookshop.org/shop/adelles...
uk.bookshop.org/shop/adelles...
Highly recommend this ambient soundtrack if your dog is upset by fireworks. It’s like Brian Eno for canines and really helped our previous hound who had a week-long panic attack each year around Bonfire Night.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=iY9m...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=iY9m...
Firework Music for Dogs! Calm Music for Dogs Scared of Fireworks For Bonfire Night and Thanksgiving!
YouTube video by Relax My Dog - Relaxing Music for Dogs
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November 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Highly recommend this ambient soundtrack if your dog is upset by fireworks. It’s like Brian Eno for canines and really helped our previous hound who had a week-long panic attack each year around Bonfire Night.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=iY9m...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=iY9m...
Pure truth.
10 years today @adellestripe.bsky.social and I eloped to Halifax to get married.
Honeymooned in Harrogate.
No-one was happier than *every single person we know* at not having to go to another wedding.
Honeymooned in Harrogate.
No-one was happier than *every single person we know* at not having to go to another wedding.
October 31, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Pure truth.
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Just under two weeks left to enter the annual GBP Short Story Prize - one of the highlights of our year, and where, for 2025/26, we'll be joined by two brilliant writers and one brilliant literary agent as judges (Sam Mills, Selby Wynn Schwartz, and Sebastian Godwin:
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Just under two weeks left to enter the annual GBP Short Story Prize - one of the highlights of our year, and where, for 2025/26, we'll be joined by two brilliant writers and one brilliant literary agent as judges (Sam Mills, Selby Wynn Schwartz, and Sebastian Godwin:
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
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Leeds Poly fine art was TOUGH but had a sound studio where people could spend 3 yrs, with a grant, making music. After graduating Marc Almond & Dave Ball still came in to use facilities & no one stopped them. Months later they were number 1. I’m feeling nostalgic for subsidised anarchy in education.
October 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Leeds Poly fine art was TOUGH but had a sound studio where people could spend 3 yrs, with a grant, making music. After graduating Marc Almond & Dave Ball still came in to use facilities & no one stopped them. Months later they were number 1. I’m feeling nostalgic for subsidised anarchy in education.
Great interview with Mal Campbell from the Trades Club (ft. footage of King Gizzard playing Rattlesnake in 2018, when it felt like the floor was caving in)...
groundupmusic.substack.com/p/theres-som...
groundupmusic.substack.com/p/theres-som...
There’s something in the air at The Trades Club, feat. Mal Campbell
Inside the Calder Valley's legendary socialist members' club, a community haven built on counter-culture and a world-class soundtrack.
groundupmusic.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Great interview with Mal Campbell from the Trades Club (ft. footage of King Gizzard playing Rattlesnake in 2018, when it felt like the floor was caving in)...
groundupmusic.substack.com/p/theres-som...
groundupmusic.substack.com/p/theres-som...
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Are you beach body ready?
A lover of romantasy?
A sucker for cosy crime?
Only buy books from the 2-for-1 pile?
Me neither!
In that case the feelbad hit of the autumn might just be for you.
JESUS CHRIST KINSKI is published today via @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
uk.bookshop.org/beta-search?...
A lover of romantasy?
A sucker for cosy crime?
Only buy books from the 2-for-1 pile?
Me neither!
In that case the feelbad hit of the autumn might just be for you.
JESUS CHRIST KINSKI is published today via @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
uk.bookshop.org/beta-search?...
October 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Are you beach body ready?
A lover of romantasy?
A sucker for cosy crime?
Only buy books from the 2-for-1 pile?
Me neither!
In that case the feelbad hit of the autumn might just be for you.
JESUS CHRIST KINSKI is published today via @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
uk.bookshop.org/beta-search?...
A lover of romantasy?
A sucker for cosy crime?
Only buy books from the 2-for-1 pile?
Me neither!
In that case the feelbad hit of the autumn might just be for you.
JESUS CHRIST KINSKI is published today via @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
uk.bookshop.org/beta-search?...
It’s Dory Previn’s centenary today, here’s a repost of a Quietus feature from 2024 if you‘re curious to find out more. Really enjoyed writing this (and the documentary is excellent too).
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
No Ordinary Thing: The Momentous Life & Times of Dory Previn
On the release of a new documentary on Dory Previn, Adelle Stripe explores an artist who learned to live with voices in her head
thequietus.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
It’s Dory Previn’s centenary today, here’s a repost of a Quietus feature from 2024 if you‘re curious to find out more. Really enjoyed writing this (and the documentary is excellent too).
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Indeed. How about a big expensive HB for those want them, PB published first — nowt worse than lugging a cumbersome brick-sized edition to bed/work/holiday. The most impractical format.
My strongest book-related belief is that the paperback should come first and then the hardback after for people who want a fancy edition.
October 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Indeed. How about a big expensive HB for those want them, PB published first — nowt worse than lugging a cumbersome brick-sized edition to bed/work/holiday. The most impractical format.
Was a pleasure to contribute a short story to this portrait of Ivan Smagghe, which is not really a book about him at all.
160 pages. Full colour. Limited edition of 500. Even the paper smells sexy.
donlonbooks.com/products/nil...
160 pages. Full colour. Limited edition of 500. Even the paper smells sexy.
donlonbooks.com/products/nil...
Nul si découvert - Dir. Ivan Smagghe (pre-order)
Softcover, 160 Pages Edition of 500 Published by CLASSIC Paris for Rex Club, 2025 As Ivan Smagghe often says, cinema is his life - and what has saved him more than once. Which is why he didn't simp...
donlonbooks.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Was a pleasure to contribute a short story to this portrait of Ivan Smagghe, which is not really a book about him at all.
160 pages. Full colour. Limited edition of 500. Even the paper smells sexy.
donlonbooks.com/products/nil...
160 pages. Full colour. Limited edition of 500. Even the paper smells sexy.
donlonbooks.com/products/nil...
You can now listen to last night’s Unclassified on BBC Sounds. We recorded the Listening Chair at home, on the knackered sofa, with a dog snuffling in the background (which was fitting). Thanks to Elizabeth for the invite.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Unclassified - Adelle Stripe's Listening Chair - BBC Sounds
Elizabeth Alker welcomes author Adelle Stripe into the Unclassified Listening Chair.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
You can now listen to last night’s Unclassified on BBC Sounds. We recorded the Listening Chair at home, on the knackered sofa, with a dog snuffling in the background (which was fitting). Thanks to Elizabeth for the invite.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
New House Mascot. He’s very small and impossibly cute.
Please say hello to Sandy Valentine Stripe.
He's 6 weeks old, tiny and he lives with us now.
He's 6 weeks old, tiny and he lives with us now.
October 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
New House Mascot. He’s very small and impossibly cute.
Tune into Radio 3 Unclassified on Sunday night, where I’ll be in the Listening Chair talking about the beauty of John Martyn’s Small Hours, a track as close to perfection as it gets.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Unclassified, Adelle Stripe's Listening Chair
Elizabeth Alker welcomes author Adelle Stripe into the Unclassified Listening Chair.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Tune into Radio 3 Unclassified on Sunday night, where I’ll be in the Listening Chair talking about the beauty of John Martyn’s Small Hours, a track as close to perfection as it gets.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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They suck you up, your mum & dad.
October 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
They suck you up, your mum & dad.
My 2017 novel (which was recently republished by Virago) is this week’s selection at Small Distractions / Hyde Park Book Club in Leeds.
Nice to see it having a second wind.
Nice to see it having a second wind.
September 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
My 2017 novel (which was recently republished by Virago) is this week’s selection at Small Distractions / Hyde Park Book Club in Leeds.
Nice to see it having a second wind.
Nice to see it having a second wind.
Sad to hear this news. RIP Tony Harrison.
"Tony Harrison (30 April 1937 – 26 September 2025) was an English poet, translator and playwright. He was born in Beeston, Leeds and he received his education in Classics from Leeds Grammar School and Leeds University."
R.I.P.
R.I.P.
September 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Sad to hear this news. RIP Tony Harrison.
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She's not on here but my pal Terri White has made this powerful and moving documentary about child poverty full of heart and muscle. Please watch it, we should all watch it – vital viewing: www.theguardian.com/society/vide...
Raising kids in poverty: The UK’s ‘inhumane’ two child limit
Child poverty in the UK is now at record levels, with 4.5 million kids living in poverty. One of the biggest drivers of this is the controversial two limit child policy, which caps universal credit an...
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
She's not on here but my pal Terri White has made this powerful and moving documentary about child poverty full of heart and muscle. Please watch it, we should all watch it – vital viewing: www.theguardian.com/society/vide...
Heading to Leeds next month for Small Distractions Literary Salon, where I’ll be in conversation with Amy McCarthy. Come one and all.
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www.seetickets.com/tour/small-d...
www.seetickets.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Heading to Leeds next month for Small Distractions Literary Salon, where I’ll be in conversation with Amy McCarthy. Come one and all.
www.seetickets.com/tour/small-d...
www.seetickets.com/tour/small-d...
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'Her outrage, in the act of expression, seems to feed on itself. If a point is conceded, she finds another hair to split, by return of post.'
Gwendoline Riley on Muriel Spark’s irrepressible creative drive
Gwendoline Riley on Muriel Spark’s irrepressible creative drive
A spitting comet
www.the-tls.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
'Her outrage, in the act of expression, seems to feed on itself. If a point is conceded, she finds another hair to split, by return of post.'
Gwendoline Riley on Muriel Spark’s irrepressible creative drive
Gwendoline Riley on Muriel Spark’s irrepressible creative drive
Calling all scholars of Punk…
September 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Calling all scholars of Punk…
The fierce new paperback cover of Base Notes has just landed courtesy of @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social -- and is now available to preorder at your local independent bookshop.
If you squint, you’ll see ‘Clive Loves Dawn’ written on the number plate…
store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/products/bas...
If you squint, you’ll see ‘Clive Loves Dawn’ written on the number plate…
store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/products/bas...
August 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The fierce new paperback cover of Base Notes has just landed courtesy of @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social -- and is now available to preorder at your local independent bookshop.
If you squint, you’ll see ‘Clive Loves Dawn’ written on the number plate…
store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/products/bas...
If you squint, you’ll see ‘Clive Loves Dawn’ written on the number plate…
store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/products/bas...