The Fraud (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Penguin Random House South Africa
Release date:	July 2024
Authors:	Zadie Smith
Dimensions:	199 x 130 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	464
ISBN-13:	978-0-241-98309-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > General Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction Promotions Books > Fiction > Promotions
LSN:	0-241-98309-6
Barcode:	9780241983096

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