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Dead and Alive

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The Fraud

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The 150th Anniversary Edition introduced by Zadie Smith

Middlemarch

The Wife of Willesden

Weirdo

Abridged Edition

Penguin Readers Level 7: White Teeth (ELT Graded Reader)

Grand Union

Six Essays

Intimations

On Beauty

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Feel Free

LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017

Swing Time

Stop What You're Doing And Read This!

Occasional Essays

Changing My Mind

The Book of Other People

The Autograph Man

White Teeth

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Funny, clever ... and a rollicking good read

Do believe the hype, buy into it, curl up with it, savour every sentence, then turn around and re-read

An impressive début, not only for its vitality and verve, but mainly for the sheer audacity of its scope and vision ... an epic tale ... swooping, funny ... it has ambition, wit and is unafraid

Announces the debut of a preternaturally gifted new writer ... street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time

Relentlessly funny ... idiosyncratic, and deeply felt

An astonishingly assured début, funny and serious ... I was delighted

She is . . . a George Eliot of multi-culturalism

[Zadie Smith] is one of the prominent voices of her generation

[Zadie Smith] packs more intelligence, humour and sheer energy into any given scene than anyone else of her generation

[White Teeth] established a model for how to make sense-and art-out of the complexity, diversity and pluck that have defined the beginning of this century

The first publishing sensation of the millennium

[Zadie Smith] is one of the prominent voices of her generation

One of the most talked about fictional débuts of recent years, WHITE TEETH is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. 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 coming back and biting you on the ankle, it is a life-affirming, riotous must-read of a book.

25th Anniversary Edition

Most highly praised debut novel in recent years

One of the most iconic fictional debuts of all time turns 25 this year! 
 
‘What’s past is prologue…’ 
 
First published in the year 2000, Zadie Smith’s White Teeth was one of the most celebrated novels of the new millennium. Adored by critics and readers alike, it remains a perennial bestseller, which still delights with the audacity of its scope and vision, its fresh-minted style, and the wit and warmth of its voice. 
 
Funny, generous and big-hearted, it deals – 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 coming back and biting you on the ankle. 
 
A life affirming, riotous must-read of a book, it won the Guardian First Book Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread First Novel Award. 
 
‘Curl up with it, savour every sentence, then turn around and reread’ The Times 
 
‘The outstanding debut of the new millennium’ Observe

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; and the play, The Wife of Willesden, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives. The Fraud is her first historical novel.

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Funny, clever ... and a rollicking good read

Do believe the hype, buy into it, curl up with it, savour every sentence, then turn around and re-read

An impressive début, not only for its vitality and verve, but mainly for the sheer audacity of its scope and vision ... an epic tale ... swooping, funny ... it has ambition, wit and is unafraid

Announces the debut of a preternaturally gifted new writer ... street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time

Relentlessly funny ... idiosyncratic, and deeply felt

An astonishingly assured début, funny and serious ... I was delighted

She is . . . a George Eliot of multi-culturalism

[Zadie Smith] is one of the prominent voices of her generation

Britain's finest young author

[Zadie Smith] packs more intelligence, humour and sheer energy into any given scene than anyone else of her generation

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