Dead and Alive Magic spells & alchemy acclaimed biographer Paula Byrne re-examines

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Dead and Alive Magic spells & alchemy acclaimed biographer Paula Byrne re-examinesAuthor: 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