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Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
No subject is too fringe or too mainstream for Zadie Smith's insatiable curiosity. From social media to the environment, Tarantino to Jay-Z to Knausgaard, she has endless fascination and the boundless wit, insight and wisdom to match. In Feel Free, pop culture, high culture, social change and political ...Show more
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters | Reading Level: very good
"Brilliant...[Smith's] new book is lively, intelligent and frequently hilarious, and proves that she's one of the brightest minds in English literature today...She considers Brexit and Key & Peele, J.G. Ballard and Jay-Z, Billie Holiday and Justin Bieber. Refreshingly, she does it all without the ki ...Show more
Grand Union by Zadie Smith
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Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
'Zadie Smith is the best writer of our generation' Gary Shteyngart 'Her dialogue is pitch-perfect, her comic timing masterful... [And] she also delivers a sophisticated commentary on race, gender, class, celebrity and power' Telegraph on Swing Time 'Smith is virtuosic, as ever, on family and friendship, ...Show more
Grand Union - Stories by Zadie Smith
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$32.99 (9% off)
Category: Short Stories | 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
Intimations - Six Essays by Zadie Smith
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Category: Essays & Letters | Reading Level: very good
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time From the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more 'There will be many books written about th ...Show more
N W by Zadie Smith
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they've left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful and complicated. Yet af ...Show more
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
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Category: General | 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
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
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Category: General
On Beauty by Zadie Smith, author of the prize-winning White Teeth, is a funny, powerful and moving story about love and family. 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? Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Bea ...Show more
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
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Category: General | 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
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
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
The Autograph Man (Popular Penguin) by Zadie Smith
$9.95 AUD
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 Fraud by Zadie Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
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