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If literature is your escape from the mounting horrors of everyday life, Zadie Smith’s latest novel, ‘The Fraud’, should tick all your boxes.

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Since “White Teeth,” Zadie Smith has been moving toward character-driven realism, writes Andrea Long Chu. Now comes “The Fraud,” her first historical novel, which depicts the celebrated Tichborne trial of the 1870s through the eyes of Eliza Touchet.

A notorious 1870s legal case gives novelist Zadie Smith the perfect setting to explore the biases that make people cling to lies and half-truths.

EMILY PRESCOTT: They say you should write about something you know well, and Hugh Grants Swedish wife Anna seems to have taken that advice to heart for her debut novel.

Inspired by an extraordinary court case, and featuring a real-life Victorian novelist, Smith’s funny, almost flawless new novel examines identity, the notion of truth and 19th-century England and Jamaica in flux

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Students at Ghent University can now become the ultimate Swifties

Literature professor seized on bookish qualities of the singer's lyrics to launch a course using Grammy winner's songs