Zadie Smith
Find out more about The Fraud by Zadie Smith – a writer at the peak of her powers
From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, The Fraud is a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves to tell their story – and about who deserves to be believed.
Footnotes, October 2019: Book links from around the web
At The Reading List, we’re trainspotters when it comes to interesting book links, and here are a number that caught our eye …
New book alert! Zadie Smith’s dazzling, first-ever short story collection Grand Union
Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith will be published in October 2019 by Penguin Random House.
‘Isabella Hammad is an enormous talent and her book is a wonder’ – Zadie Smith. Read an excerpt from The Parisian here
‘The Parisian is a sublime reading experience: delicate, restrained, surpassingly intelligent, uncommonly poised and truly beautiful….That this remarkable historical epic should be the debut of a writer in her twenties seems impossible, yet it’s true. Isabella Hammad is an enormous talent and her book is a wonder.’ – Zadie Smith
Two new Zadie Smith books announced, including her first historical novel
Two new books by Zadie Smith have been announced: a collection of her best short fiction over almost two decades, and her first work of historical fiction.