From bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, comes a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial, the 'Tichborne Trial', that divided Victorian England. Based on real historical events, THE FRAUD is a dazzling novel about truth and fiction, Jamaica and Britain, fraudulence and authenticity, and the mystery of 'other'. A new landmark novel from the author of 'White Teeth' and 'Swing Time'.