Adelle Stripe

Adelle Stripe’s books include her recent olfactory memoir Base Notes: The Scents of a Life, the Sunday Times bestselling music biography, Ten Thousand Apologies, and Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, a fictionalised account of the life and work of cult northern playwright Andrea Dunbar. Her writing has been shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize, Gordon Burn Prize, and Portico Prize for Literature. As a journalist, Stripe has contributed to the Quietus, TLS, Record Collector and Caught by the River. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing and was a Burgess Fellow at the University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing in 2023.