{"product_id":"the-fraud-9780525558989","title":"The Fraud","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller - \u003cb\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e10 Best Books of the Year - One of NPR's Best Books of the Year \u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003eand BookPage \u003cb\u003e- One of Oprah Daily's Best Novels of 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[A] brilliant new entry in Smith's catalog . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Fraud\u003c\/i\u003e is not a change for Smith, but a demonstration of how expansive her talents are.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTruth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 the 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom literary London to Jamaica's sugarcane plantations, Zadie Smith weaves an enthralling story linking the rich and the poor, the free and the enslaved, and the comic and the tragic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eZadie Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Autograph Man\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNW \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Swing Time\u003c\/i\u003e; as well as a novella, \u003ci\u003eThe Embassy of Cambodia\u003c\/i\u003e; three collections of essays, \u003ci\u003eChanging My Mind, Feel Free\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIntimations\u003c\/i\u003e; a collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eGrand Union\u003c\/i\u003e; and the play, \u003ci\u003eThe Wife of Willesden\u003c\/i\u003e, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Other People\u003c\/i\u003e. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50874988101906,"sku":"9780525558989","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3af683a1-b7df-4279-bfa0-c5588d3c1274.jpg?v=1758093395","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-fraud-9780525558989","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}