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The Fraud

Zadie Smith

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English
Penguin
10 September 2024
The chronicler of contemporary London, acclaimed and bestselling author Zadie Smith, returns with her first historical novel

Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story?

In her first historical novel, Zadie Smith transports the reader to a Victorian England transfixed by the real-life trial of the Tichborne Claimant, in which a cockney butcher, recently returned from Australia, lays claim to the Tichborne baronetcy, with his former slave Andrew Bogle as star witness. Watching the proceedings, and with her own story to tell, is Eliza Touchet - cousin, housekeeper and perhaps more - to failing novelist William Harrison Ainsworth.

From literary London to the Jamaica's sugar-cane plantations, Zadie Smith weaves an enthralling story linking the rich and the poor, the free and the enslaved, and the comic and the tragic.

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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 128mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   322g
ISBN:   9780241983096
ISBN 10:   0241983096
Pages:   400
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Zadie 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 the 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. The Fraud is her first historical novel.

Reviews for The Fraud

No one understands humans better. As this novel shows, there is no better guide to people and their bottomlessness than Smith herself * iNews * This was really delightful. 10/10. Zadie Smith is a genius -- Brandon Taylor author of The Late Americans A novel full of people, ideas, humour, feeling and something like moral truth – the stuff of life * Evening Standard * Searingly original [and] virtuosic . . . the book masterfully depicts post-emancipation Britain as it ruptures along faultlines of class and race * Vogue * Brilliant. A Dickensian delight * Los Angeles Times *


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