A consistently innovative and challenging voice, Zadie Smith has been a cut above since her ground-breaking debut White Teeth burst joyfully and anarchically into being sixteen years ago. As her latest novel Swing Time takes its place in a compellingly strong 2017 Booker Longlist Zadie Smith talks to us about her love of dance, the movement of time and the lure of charismatic characters.

A powerful, sweeping meditation on the very nature and purpose of friendship, Swing Time has all the hallmarks of Zadie Smith at her finest. Sample the first chapter here and prepare to be swept into the dance.