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This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Fraud by Zadie Smith and Holly by Stephen King.

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.

The Fraud, a Victorian novel for the post-Trump era, is elegant, flawed, and sharp as a knife.

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time; plus a novella; three collections of essays; short stories, and the play, The Wife of Willesden. She’s also the editor of The Book of Other People. She was twice shortlisted, and once winner of the Women’s Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker. Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives. The Fraud, her first historical novel, is published by Hamish Hamilton on Thursday.

After 17 years abroad, Zadie Smith has returned to her literary stomping ground of north London. She talks about fame, therapy and finding inspiration for her new historical novel on her doorstep