In Conversation with Zadie Smith and Tayari Jones

SCADshow and A Cappella Books proudly welcomes The New York Times-bestselling author Zadie Smith to celebrate the paperback release of her critically acclaimed novel The Fraud. The latest work from the acclaimed and bestselling novelist, The Fraud is a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England. Smith will appear in conversation with Atlanta’s own Tayari Jones, award-winning author of “An American Marriage.”

About The Fraud

Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story — and who gets to be believed?

In her first historical novel, Zadie Smith transports the reader to a Victorian England transfixed by the real-life trial of the Tichborne Claimant, in which a cockney butcher, recently returned from Australia, lays claim to the Tichborne baronetcy with his former slave Andrew Bogle as the star witness. Watching the proceedings, and with her own story to tell, is Eliza Touchet — cousin, housekeeper, and perhaps more to failing novelist William Harrison Ainsworth.

From literary London to Jamaica’s sugarcane plantations, Smith weaves an enthralling story linking the rich and the poor, the free and the enslaved, and the comic and the tragic.