Practical Magic teaches you the secrets of close-up, under-your-nose, in-your-face magic - the sort you commonly see on television. There are tricks with coins, paper, cards and all sorts of other great ways to impress people! You will learn nearly 100 great tricks and illusions from easy-to-follow diagrams and text. There's no elitist jargon and no skimping on all-important detail. The tricks are arranged so you can comfortably progress from one to the next in skill and performance level, and by the end of the book you'll have a wide variety of great tricks (quite literally) up your sleeve.

More than 100 tricks of many types are fully explained, from tricks so easy they are self-working to more complicated sleight-of-hand illusions that require a lot of practice. Zenon gives advice about how to best perform the tricks, when and how to use them for best effect, as well as his unique insight to the world of magic and illusion.