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NW (Book)

Zadie Smith (Author)

A novel about London life. It 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 [...]

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White Teeth (Book)

Zadie Smith (Author)

A title that deals 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.

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Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (Book)

Zadie Smith (Author)

How did George Eliot's love life affect her prose? Why did Kafka write at three in the morning? In what ways is Barack Obama like Eliza Doolittle? Can you be over-dressed for the Oscars? What is Italian Feminism? If Roland Barthes killed the Author, can Nabokov revive him? [...]

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NW (Book)

Zadie Smith (Author)

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Changing My Mind (Book)

Zadie Smith (Author)

Split into five sections - Reading, Being, Seeing, Feeling and Remembering - Changing My Mind finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both personal and cultural. An engaging collection of essays some published here for the first time.

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NW (Book)

Zadie Smith (Author)

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NW (Book)

Zadie Smith (Author)

Growing up in the same 1970s urban planning development in Northwest London, four young people pursue independent and reasonably successful lives until one of them is abruptly drawn out of her isolation by a stranger who is seeking her help.

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Stop What You're Doing and Read This ! (Book)

Mark Haddon (Author), Mark Rosen Haddon (Author), Michael Rosen (Author), Zadie Smith (Author)

The ten essays in this book tell us about the experience of reading, why access to books should never be taken forgranted, how reading transforms our brains, and how literature can save lives. In any 24 hours there are so many demands on your time and attention - books [...]

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The Embassy of Cambodia (Book)

Zadie Smith (Author)

First published this Spring in the New Yorker, The Embassy of Cambodia is a rare and brilliant story from Zadie Smith, taking us deep into the life of a young woman, Fatou, domestic servant to the Derawals and escapee from one set of hardships to another.

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The Ermine of Czernopol (Book)

Gregor von Rezzori (Author), Zadie Smith (Author), Gregor Von Rezzori (Author), Gregor/ Smith Von Rezzori (Author)

Introduction by Zadie Smith and Translated by Philip Boehm.

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NW (Book)

Zadie Smith (Author), Smith Zadie (Author)

Twenty-first-century London comes vividely to life in Zadie Smith's new novel, now in paperback.

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NW (Book)

Zadie Smith (Author), Smith Zadie (Author)

From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful and complicated. Yet after a chance encounter they each find that the choices they've made, the people they once were and are now, can suddenly, rapidly unravel. This title tells about [...]

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NW (Audio book)

Zadie Smith (Author), Karen Bryson (Reader / Narrator), Don Gilet (Reader / Narrator), Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Reader / Narrator)

Growing up in the same 1970s urban planning development in Northwest London, four young people pursue independent and reasonably successful lives until one of them is abruptly drawn out of her isolation by a stranger who is seeking her help.

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Changing My Mind (Book)

Zadie Smith (Author)

A volume of essays is comprised of top-selected pieces from the past decade and considers a broad range of topics organized under such main categories as "Reading," "Being," "Seeing," and "Feeling."

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Changing My Mind (Book)

Zadie Smith (Author)

"[These essays] reflect a lively, unselfconscious, rigorous, erudite, and earnestly open mind that's busy refining its view of life, literature, and a great deal in between.". -"Los Angeles Times". Split into five sections-Reading, Being, Seeing, Feeling, and [...]

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