Zadie Smith

The multi-award-winning writer of White Teeth and On Beauty discusses her fiction and essays, how dance inspires her writing and reads from her new novel Swing Time which follows the friendship of two girls who both dream of being dancers. In discussing her latest work, which fittingly makes reference to Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, Smith reflects on chronicling contemporary London, the diverse characters who make up the life of the city and how to capture a changing world on the page.