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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.

"At the centre is Eliza, a woman not unlike ‘Gentleman Jack’ in terms of her charisma, if not, entirely, her sexuality. She, working from within the constraints of that which is considered ladylike, strives to achieve her own immortality, like George Eliot, through writing."

Zadie Smith evokes the complexities of race, class and colonisation in her novel about a scandal that titillated Victorian England.

Ever since Zadie Smith burst on to the literary scene with her deservedly award winning first novel White Teeth, mostly written while she was still an undergraduate at Cambridge, she has focussed on contemporary themes, especially multiculturalism and racial identity, in places as far apart as London and Boston. This is perhaps hardly surprising given her own family background with a Jamaican mother and an English father. Her latest book The Fraud sees a dramatic change of direction – an historical novel partly set in 19th Century London and centred on the case of the Tichborne Claimant and ...

In her new novel, bestselling author Zadie Smith tells a story of deception, music, and intersecting characters based on a scandalous Victorian legal case.