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Zadie Smith
From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves to tell their story -…
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The first ever collection of stories from the bestselling and beloved author of Swing Time and White Teeth
In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north-west London lives…
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Set on both sides of the Atlantic, Smith’s third novel is a brilliant analysis of family life, the institution of marriage, intersections of the personal and the political, and an…
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From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful and complicated. Yet after a chance encounter they each find that the choices they’ve…
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A riotous dramatic translation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath’s Prologue, brought to glorious life on London’s Kilburn High Road
‘Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend. She plays…
An urgently timely, deeply personal and powerfully moving series of essays on the experience of lockdown from one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time.
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Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful? This is a story about…
Two dancers with different approaches to their craft share a complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, in a story that transitions from northwest London to West…
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Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation…
Claire Squires
The Continuum Contemporaries series is designed as a source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and literature students at school, college and university. It aims to give…
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A brilliant analysis of family life, the institution of marriage, intersections of the personal and the political, and an honest look at people’s deceptions.
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston’s masterpiece is perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African American literature. Published as part of a beautifully designed series…
Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of…
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A collection of essays on literature, cinema, art - and everything in between.
The chronicler of contemporary London, acclaimed and bestselling author Zadie Smith, returns with her first historical novel
Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story?
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Following one Alex-Li Tandem - a twenty-something, Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and organised religion, this title takes in London and New York, love and death, fathers…
Arranged into four sections–In the World, In the Audience, On the Bookshelf, and Feel Free–this collection poses questions we may immediately recognize.
Toni Morrison
A stunning, relevant short story (the only one Toni Morrison wrote), with a new substantial introduction from Zadie Smith
Professor Philip Tew
An introduction to the work of Zadie Smith, placing her fiction in a clear historical and theoretical context, and exploring her work in relation to contemporaneity and postcolonialism. Including a…
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Tracey Walters
Readers will learn the story behind each writer’s story and includes an examination of their most popular work.
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Zadie Smith,Nick Laird
Bestselling authors Zadie Smith and Nick Laird make their picture book debut with this warm and endearing story celebrating the quiet power of being different.
Meet Maud- a guinea pig…
J. G. Ballard
The definitive cult, post-modern novel - a shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism - reissued with a new introduction from Zadie Smith.
Zadie Smith, Nick Laird
Beatriz Perez Zapata
Using the frameworks of trauma and memory studies, this monograph analyses Zadie Smith's work to foreground postcolonial redefinitions of trauma that challenge universal methods of coping with suffering in global…
Zadie Smith: Critical Essays is a timely collection of critical articles examining how Zadie Smith’s novels and short stories interrogate race, postcolonialism, and identity. Essays explore the various ways Smith…
Greeshma Peethambaran
Pegged on the concept of otherness , Bakhtin’s principle of dialogue highlights the differential relation between a center and all that is not the center. Bakhtinian thought centers on the…
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Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. He hunts for them, collects them, sells them, occasionally fakes them - all to give the people what they want - a little piece of Fame…
Decoded: New Essays on Zadie Smith examines the middle period of Zadie Smith’s illustrious career as a dynamic, experimental novelist of contemporary Black British writing.
Howard Belsey, a long suffering professor at Wellington College, is married to American Kiki, who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Howard feels the first two acts…
Un libro cargado de agudeza, frescura y empatia que nos ilumina en un mundo cada vez mas cambiante y contradictorio.
Zadie Smith ha demostrado ser una ensayista brillante y singular…
The New York Times bestseller * One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year * One of NPR's Best Books of the Year * Named a…
Zadie Smith’s first time writing for the stage, a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s classic The Wife of Bath
Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend.She plays…
This engaging collection of essays–some published here for the first time–reveals Smith as a passionate and precise essayist, equally at home in the world of great books and bad movies…
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A story about friendship and music and stubborn roots, about how we are shaped by these things and how we can survive them. Moving from North West London to West…
Somewhere in Northwest London stands Caldwell housing estate, a relic of 70s urban planning. Thirty years later four ex-Caldwell kids have all made it out, with varying degrees of success–whatever…
At the center of this invigorating and hilarious novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal, hapless veterans of World War II. Set against London’s racial and cultural…
First published in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin General, a division of Penguin Random House UK, 2019. First published in the United States by Penguin Press…
‘White Teeth’ is a comic epic of multicultural Britain which tells the story of immigrants in England over a period of 40 years.
Penguin Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign or second language.
With carefully adapted…
Kilburn, 1873. The 'Tichborne Trial' has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza…
Since the publication of White Teeth in 2000, Zadie Smith has become one of the most popular contemporary writers and also one of the mostly widely studied. Taking criticism of…
