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.
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*
The Fraud is unlike anything you’ll read this year: a charismatic,
cerebral novel that asks us to consider the greatest fraud of all,
that of one man claiming to hold the key to another’s freedom
*Irish Times*
Affecting and devastating . . . In typical Zadie style, the
narrative structure and decade leaping require you to pay attention
– but you’re heavily rewarded with the sheer breadth of the novel
and its vividly painted characters
*Independent, '24 best summer books 2024'*
A wonderful meditation on truth and falsehood, and the boundaries
between fact and fiction
*Spectator*
A rich and sprawling novel with a terrific cast of characters, this
is Smith at her best
*The i Paper, 'Best new paperbacks for summer'*
A big, rich saga, tumbling with characters and big issues
(feminism, slavery, truth)
*The Times, 'Best Novels of 2023'*
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