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The Fraud

English

By (author): Zadie Smith

Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, Economist, Observer, The Spectator, Financial Times, Vogue, The Times, The Oldie, i Paper, The Standard, Washington Post, Independent, Daily Express

SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024
ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKERS BEST BOOKS OF 2023
LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2024


A writer at the peak of her powers The Telegraph

Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel.

Kilburn, 1873. The 'Tichborne Trial' has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza Touchet and all of England. Readers are at odds over whether the defendant is who he claims to be - or an imposter.

Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her novelist cousin and his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects England of being a land of façades, in which nothing is quite what it seems.

Andrew Bogle meanwhile finds himself the star witness, his future depending on telling the right story. Growing up enslaved on the Hope Plantation, Jamaica, he knows every lump of sugar comes at a human cost. That the rich deceive the poor. And that people are more easily manipulated than they realise.

Based on real historical events, The Fraud is a dazzling novel about how in a world of hypocrisy and self-deception, deciding what's true can prove a complicated task.

Its difficult to give any idea of how extraordinary this book is. One of the great historical novels, certainly. But has any historical novel ever combined such brilliantly researched and detailed history with such intensely imagined fiction? Or such a range of living, breathing, surprising characters with such an idiosyncratically structured narrative? Michael Frayn

As always it is a pleasure to be in Zadie Smiths mind, which, as time goes on, is becoming contiguous with London itself. Dickens may be dead, but Smith, thankfully, is alive New York Times

Zadie Smiths Victorian-set masterpiece holds a mirror up to Britain . . . The Fraud is the genuine article Independent

Smiths dazzling historical novel combines deft writing and strenuous construction in a tale of literary London and the horrors of slavery Guardian


Instant Sunday Times bestseller, September 2023

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Product Details
  • Weight: 680g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 238mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Sep 2023
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780241336991

About Zadie Smith

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.

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