Photographs published in 1876 designed to prove that Roger Tichborne (left) and the ‘Claimant’, (right) were one and the same, as per the central blended image.
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Zadie Smith evokes the complexities of race, class and colonisation in her novel about a scandal that titillated Victorian England.
Zadie Smith has dipped her toe into the world of historical fiction with The Fraud.
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This well-researched book brings to life the odd case of Sir Roger Tichborne and those around him.
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How Chaucer’s medieval Wife of Bath continues to make her voice heard
They call her The Wife of Willesden.
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Zadie Smith’s first play delivers on what women want.
Zadie Smith’s debut White Teeth was part of a wave of interest in “multicultural writing” in the early 2000s.
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Interest in Black British writing has grown and shrunk since the late 1940s. Is the current wave going to crash like those before it?