The Fraud is a historical novel based on the Tichborne case written by Zadie Smith and published by Penguin Random House in 2023.

Roger Tichborne, rightful heir to a baronetcy and a family fortune, was presumed to have died in a shipwreck in 1854, but now a man claims to be him.

Andrew Bogle, who grew up as a slave on a Jamaican sugar plantation, is a star witness.

According to The New York Times, Smith's "new novel, 'The Fraud,' is based on a celebrated 19th-century criminal trial, but it keeps one eye focused clearly on today's political populism.

"[1] According to the Los Angeles Times, "Not only is [the novel] set in 19th century England with a sprawling cast of characters high and low, but Charles Dickens himself makes an appearance, charming everyone except those who envy his success.