Dead and Alive Magic spells & alchemy this book bursts with insight

this book bursts with insight on the real problems that are so often hidden from the front pages

But if he ever reaches the distant land he seeks

everything about it was perfect’

acclaimed biographer Paula Byrne re-examines Hardy’s life through the eyes of the women who made him – mother

told in beautifully lush prose' Lyndall Clipstone

Dead and Alive Magic spells & alchemy this book bursts with insightAuthor: Smith, Zadie 21st century Published on 30 October 2025 by Penguin Books Ltd (Hamish Hamilton Ltd) in the United Kingdom. Hardback 352 pages 242 x 166 x 35 576g An illuminating new essay collection from one of the most distinctive, exciting and acclaimed writers of her generation, Zadie SmithZadie Smith is a wonderful essayist. She is a natural. She writes as she thinks, and she thinks crisply and exactly Tessa Hadley, GuardianIn this keenly