The Fraud
A Novel
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a sprawling work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story—and who gets to be believed.
It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper—and cousin by marriage—of a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life, and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully and a moralist; and England of being a…
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September 3, 2024Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; and a play, The Wife of Willesden, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives.
Dead and Alive
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In the Wild
Zadie Smith and Nick Laird; illustrated by Magenta Fox
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
The Fraud
Zadie Smith
The Wife of Willesden
Zadie Smith
The Surprise
Zadie Smith and Nick Laird; illustrated by Magenta Fox
Recitatif
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Penguin Readers Level 7: White Teeth
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Grand Union
Zadie Smith
Intimations
Zadie Smith
The Measure of Our Lives
Toni Morrison; Foreword by Zadie Smith
Feel Free
Zadie Smith
The Autograph Man
Zadie Smith