The Fraud

Zadie Smith

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The extraordinary first historical novel from standalone bestseller Zadie Smith

Nineteenth century England. A curious world in which people say one thing and mean another, produce false facts and spread them, ignore the unignorable, fudge the line between fiction and reality, preach freedom and yet practise subjection.

Based on real historical events, The Fraud is a novel about truth and fiction, Jamaica and Britain, fraudulence and authenticity, William Harrison Ainsworth, The Tichborne Claimant, and a remarkable housekeeper called Mrs Touchet....

Published: 7 September 2023
ISBN: 9780241984161
Imprint: Penguin Audio
Format: Audio Download
Narrator: Zadie Smith
RRP: $32.00

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Historical fiction

About the author

Zadie Smith

Date: 2013-08-06
Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. She is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as The Embassy of Cambodia and the essay collection, Changing My Mind. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has twice been listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists. She has won the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award among many others, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.

Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is a regular contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books.