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An ultimate guide to Zadie Smith

Learn about Zadie Smith's incredible books. You're sure to find a new favourite on this list!

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The Wren, The Wren

A generational saga of daughterhood and motherhood, from the Booker Prize-winning Irish author

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Others Were Emeralds

A stirring coming-of-age novel about guilt, loss, love and memory. Others Were Emeralds explores the inherent danger of allowing our misconceptions to shape our reality.

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The Seventh Son

The exhilarating new literary novel from the worldwide bestseller and master storyteller

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Why We Are Here

Nine months after He died, I opened the door and smelled summer.

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But the Girl

It was an undecided and hazy spring, the spring that MAS370 disappeared, and I didn’t know what I was doing in London.

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Notes on Her Colour

My mother could change the color of her skin.

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Hello Beautiful

For the first six days of William Waters’s life, he was not an only child.

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The Days Toppled Over

Four names on the lease and, as of today, seven people in the house.