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Grand Union - Stories by Zadie Smith
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Category: FICTION | Series: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life. A mother looks back on her early forays into matters of the human heart, considering the ways in which desire is always an act of negotiation, destruction, and self-invention. A disgraced cop stands amid th ...Show more
NW by Zadie Smith
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Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of a city. The North-West corner of a city. Here you'll find guests and hosts, those with power and those without it, people who live somewhere special and others who live nowhere at all. And many people in between. Every city is like this. Cheek-by-jowl living. Separate worlds. And th ...Show more
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
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Category: BABIES & TODDLERS | Reading Level: good-very good
Set in New England mainly and London partly, "On Beauty" concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - ...Show more
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
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Category: FICTION
An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what ...Show more
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
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Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
How do we become who we are?Can we ever truly escape our origins?Must we dance to the music of our time?Set in London, New York and West Africa, Swing Timeis about two brown girls from Willesden who dream of being dancers. Only one - Tracey - has the talent. But the other has ideas which take her furthe ...Show more
The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
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Category: BABIES & TODDLERS | Reading Level: very good
'The novel is a pleasure from the first page to the last' - David Sexton, "Evening Standard". Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. A small blip in a huge worldwide network of desire, it is his business to hunt for names on paper, collect them, sell them, occasionally fake them, and all to give the people wh ...Show more
The Autograph Man (Popular Penguin) by Zadie Smith
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins
Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. A small blip in a huge worldwide network of desire, it is his business to hunt for names on paper, collect them, sell them, occasionally fake them, and all to give the people what they want: a little piece of fame. Pushing against the tide of his generation, Alex-Li is o ...Show more
The Embassy of Cambodia by Zadie Smith
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Category: NEW RELEASE
Back on the terrain of NW, The Embassy of Cambodia is another remarkable work of fiction from Zadie Smith. 'The fact is, if we followed the history of every little country in the world - in its dramatic as well as its quiet times - we would have no space left in which to live our own lives or apply ours ...Show more
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
34.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
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 - and about who deserves to be believed. It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cous ...Show more
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
22.99 AUD
Category: BABIES & TODDLERS | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: good-very good
One of the most talked about fictional debuts 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 tric ...Show more
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