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A Northern Wind, A Year in Books, Alba de Céspedes, Andy Warhol, Brigitte Reimann, Call and Response, Cold Nights of Childhood, David Kynaston, Emma Cline, Forbidden Notebook, George Orwell, Germany, Gothataone Moeng, Italy, Jean Stafford, Joaquina Ballard Howles, Julia, Kate Grenville, Last House Before the Mountain, Lauren Groff, Leïla Slimani, Megan Nolan, Monika Helfer, Nicole Flattery, No More Giants, Nothing Special, Ordinary Human Failings, Poland, Restless Dolly Maunder, Sandra Newman, Seventy Times Seven, Short Stories, Siblings, Susanna Moore, Tezer Özlü, The Fraud, The Guest, The Lost Wife, The Mountain Lion, The Peasants, The Vaster Wilds, True Crime, Turkey, Watch Us Dance, William Harrison Ainsworth, Władysław Reymont, Zadie Smith
Set in her beloved West London, Zadie Smith’s The Fraud focuses on two forgotten figures: William Harrison Ainsworth, once a bestselling author – and a doorway into literary celebrity, Victorian-style; and Andrew Bogle, a formerly enslaved Jamaican and chief witness in the trial of the Tichborne Claimant. Caught in the whirl of notoriety, their fates are tracked by a free-thinking widow whose acidic commentary tests the bounds of white liberalism. Continue reading
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