# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Diversity Book Club: The Fraud by Zadie Smith
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 06 Nov, 2025 at 05:30 pm
- **Event Description**: From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story—and who gets to be believed.

It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper—and cousin by marriage—of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years.

Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully and a moralist; and England of being a land of facades, in which nothing is quite what it seems.

Andrew Bogle, meanwhile, grew up enslaved on the Hope Plantation, Jamaica. He knows every lump of sugar comes at a human cost. That the rich deceive the poor. And that people are more easily manipulated than they realize. When Bogle finds himself in London, star witness in a celebrated case of imposture, he knows his future depends on telling the right story.

The “Tichborne Trial”—wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claimed he was in fact the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title—captivates Mrs. Touchet and all of England. Is Sir Roger Tichborne really who he says he is? Or is he a fraud? Mrs. Touchet is a woman of the world. Mr. Bogle is no fool. But in a world of hypocrisy and self-deception, deciding what is real proves a complicated task. . . .

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 people.”
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/chesham/diversity-book-club-the-fraud-by-zadie-smith/200029021704636
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, workshops
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 16

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Chesham
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: 10 High Street, HP5 1EP Chesham, United Kingdom
- **lat**: 51.7044
- **long**: -0.61333
- **full address**: 10 High Street, HP5 1EP Chesham, United Kingdom, 10 High Street, Chesham, HP5 1EP, United Kingdom

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Diversity Book Club: The Fraud by Zadie Smith being held?
  - **A:** Diversity Book Club: The Fraud by Zadie Smith takes place on Thu, 06 Nov, 2025 at 05:30 pm to Thu, 06 Nov, 2025 at 05:30 pm at 10 High Street, HP5 1EP Chesham, United Kingdom, 10 High Street, Chesham, HP5 1EP, United Kingdom.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Diversity Book Club: The Fraud by Zadie Smith?
  - **A:** Diversity Book Club: The Fraud by Zadie Smith is organized by Chapter Two.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Diversity Book Club: The Fraud by Zadie Smith is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Chesham, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Diversity Book Club: The Fraud by Zadie Smith sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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