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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 literary circles in London and partly on slavery in Jamaica. It might be set in the past but the book still comes with the feisty vibrant style, entertaining dialogues, witty and satirical asides, that characterise Smith's previous novels. The plotting is as complex as her earlier work and she weaves a path that creates a web of interconnections, often quite unsuspected. The literary element

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