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 *