5x15 is thrilled to announce a special event with author and journalist Bella Mackie, whose bestselling books include Jog On and How to Kill Your Family. In conversation with writer and broadcaster Alexandra Heminsley, Bella will be speaking about her hotly anticipated new novel What A Way To Go, a brilliantly funny and twisty mystery for fans of Succession and true crime.
Anthony Wistern is wealthy beyond imagination. Fragrant wife, gaggle of photogenic children, French chateau, Cotswold manor, plethora of mistresses, penchant for cutting moral corners, tick tick tick tick tick tick.
Unfortunately for him, he’s also dead. Suddenly poised to inherit his fortune, each member of the family falls under suspicion. And that's when the lying starts...
If you're still not over Succession, then the family at the heart of Bella Mackie's new novel 'gives the Roy clan a run for its money, with a murderous twist (Sunday Times Style.) Join us in September for a thrilling conversation about dysfunctional families, rich people, and true-crime obsessives.
Praise for What A Way To Go
'Very funny… I inhaled it' - JOE LYCETT
'The right side of spiky and the right kind of fun, with huge personality' - ADELE PARKS
‘I loved her first, How to Kill Your Family, and here she seems to have found a rich and poisonous vein. Think a very English Succession, with just as much intrigue, backstabbing, and narcissism’ JOJO MOYES
‘Taut, pacy, seamless… a huge pleasure to read’ - MARIAN KEYES
Bella Mackie's debut novel How to Kill Your Family was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller and spent 47 weeks in the top 10 in paperback. She is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling non-fiction Jog On, and has written for the Guardian, Vogue and Vice. In 2023 she judged the Women’s Prize for Fiction and her work has been shortlisted for the British Book Awards.
Alexandra Heminsley is a bestselling author, journalist, and broadcaster. She is the author of both fiction and non-fiction, including her memoir Running Like a Girl and her debut novel Under the Same Stars, and her work has been published in fifteen countries. She spent eight years as the Books Editor at Elle and ten years at BBC Radio 2's Claudia Winkleman Arts Show. She regularly appears as both a co-host and guest at literary festivals and was a judge for 2011's Costa Novel of the Year Award. Her most recent novel is The Queue.
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