{"product_id":"fraud-1","title":"Fraud","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook of the Year 2023 according to \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, Economist, Observer, The Spectator, Financial Times, Vogue, The Times, The Oldie, i Paper, The Standard, Washington Post, Independent, Daily Express\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023\u003cbr\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS’ PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024\u003cbr\u003eONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER’S BEST BOOKS OF 2023\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A writer at the peak of her powers’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTruth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story?\u003c\/b\u003e\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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘It’s difficult to give any idea of how extraordinary this book is. One of the great historical novels, certainly. But has any historical novel ever combined such brilliantly researched and detailed history with such intensely imagined fiction?'' Michael Frayn\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘As always it is a pleasure to be in Zadie Smith’s mind . . . Dickens may be dead, but Smith, thankfully, is alive’ \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Zadie Smith’s Victorian-set masterpiece holds a mirror up to Britain . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Fraud \u003c\/i\u003eis the genuine article’ \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Smith’s dazzling historical novel combines deft writing and strenuous construction in a tale of literary London and the horrors of slavery’ \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInstant\u003ci\u003e Sunday Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller, September 2023\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57399304552830,"sku":"NW9780241983096","price":9.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780241983096.jpg?v=1778602632","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/fraud-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}