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Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER From the acclaimed author of Swing Time, White Teeth and Grand Union, discover a brilliantly funny and deeply mving story about love and family Why do we fall in love...

The one and only Zadie Smith, prize-winning, best-selling author of White Teeth, is back with a second unmissable collection of essays. No subject is too fringe or too mainstream for the unstoppable Zadie Smith. From social media to the environment, from Jay-Z to Karl Ove Knausgaard, she has boundless curiosity and the boundless wit to match. In Feel Free, pop culture, high culture, social change and political debate all get the Zadie Smith treatment, dissected with razor-sharp intellect.

Deux petites filles métisses d'un quartier populaire de Londres se rencontrent lors d'un cours de danse. Entre deux entrechats, une relation fusionnelle se noue entre elles. Devant les pas virtuoses de Fred Astaire et de Jeni LeGon sur leur magnétoscope, elles se rêvent danseuses. Tracey est la plus douée, la plus audacieuse, mais aussi la plus excessive. Alors qu'elle intègre une école de danse, la narratrice, elle, poursuit une scolarité classique au lycée puis à l'université, et toutes deux se perdent de vue.

Interleaving 10 completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from the New Yorker and elsewhere, Zadie Smith presents a dizzyingly rich and varied collection of fiction. Moving exhilaratingly across genres and perspectives, from the historic to the vividly current to the slyly dystopian, Grand Union is a sharply alert and prescient collection about time and place, identity and rebirth, the persistent legacies that haunt our present selves and the uncanny futures that rush up to meet us.

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner. With an introduction by Zadie Smith “A puzzle of a story, then—a game.... When [Morrison] called Recitatif an ‘experiment’ she...

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? What does 'soulful' mean? Is Date Movie the worst film ever made? A collection of essays that brims over with personality and warmth, Changing My Mind is journalism at its most expansive.

Meet Maud: a guinea pig who inexplicably wears a judo suit - and not everyone understands or approves. When Maud is thrown into a new and confusing situation, it takes brave decisions and serendipitous encounters for her to find her place and embrace her individuality. Weirdo is an endearing story about the quiet power of being different by two veteran writers. Together they have created a story that adults and children alike will treasure.

Zadie Smith ormai si è affermata come una delle scrittrici più iconiche, rispettate dalla critica e popolari della sua generazione. E oggi, a vent'anni dal memorabile esordio di "Denti bianchi", ci offre il suo primo libro di racconti, nel quale il suo potere di osservazione e la sua voce inimitabile si fondono per restituirci l'esperienza complessa, terribilmente complessa, della vita nella contemporaneità.

Hustpierpoint, Sussex, 1873. Eliza Touchet è da trent'anni la governante di suo cugino acquisito, William Ainsworth, un romanziere un tempo di grande successo ma ormai caduto in disgrazia e in crisi di ispirazione. Donna spiritualmente e intellettualmente libera, Eliza ha sempre partecipato ai circoli letterari di Ainsworth, crescendo all'ombra del successo di William e dei suoi amici letterati, tra cui il Signor Charles Dickens, che non esita a considerare un prevaricatore moralista.