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Zadie Smith
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…
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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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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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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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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 -…
The chronicler of contemporary London, acclaimed and bestselling author Zadie Smith, returns with her first historical novel
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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…
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.
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.
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A stunning new reissue of one of the most iconic fictional debuts of all time, to mark the 25th anniversary of this modern classic
First published in the year 2000…
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A collection of essays on literature, cinema, art - and everything in between.
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Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston's masterpiece - perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African American literature - now in the new Virago Green Spine…
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…
Zadie Smith, Nick Laird
A follow-up to the acclaimed Weirdo from three incredible talents
A warm and endearing story about the quiet power of being yourself from Zadie Smith, Nick Laird and Magenta Fox.
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Toni Morrison
A stunning, relevant short story (the only one Toni Morrison wrote), with a new substantial introduction from Zadie Smith
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…
Arranged into four sections–In the World, In the Audience, On the Bookshelf, and Feel Free–this collection poses questions we may immediately recognize.
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…
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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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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.
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…
Zora Neale Hurston’s masterpiece is perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African American literature.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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Cesare Siglarski
Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Duisburg-Essen (British and Anglophone Literature and Culture), course: Survey of…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Kilburn, 1873. The 'Tichborne Trial' has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza…
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…
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…
‘White Teeth’ is a comic epic of multicultural Britain which tells the story of immigrants in England over a period of 40 years.
