Bella Mackie And Alexandra Heminsley On What A Way To Go

贝拉·麦基与亚历山德拉·赫明斯利谈人生之路

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2024-09-27

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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. With thanks for your support for 5x15 online! Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories
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  • Five times 15.

  • Good evening everyone.

  • It's great to be back at Fiber 15 this evening and we're very excited to welcome you to our first online event of the new season.

  • You will have likely heard much about tonight's speaker.

  • In the last few weeks she's been all over the airwaves launching her smash hit new book Walk what a Way to Go,

  • which instantly shot to number five on the Sunday Times bestseller list upon its release.

  • So we're very pleased to have writer and journalist Bella Mackie with us this evening.

  • Bella's debut novel,

  • how to Kill youl Family was a number one bestseller and it spent 47 weeks in the top 10.

  • It will soon be adapted for television by Netflix.

  • Bella will be speaking about what a Way to Go this evening with Alexandra Heminsley,

  • a best selling author,

  • journalist and broadcaster whose books have been published in 15 countries and include Running Like a Girl under the Same Stars and the Queue.

  • Both of our speakers books are on sale from New and Bookshop this evening and details about how to order those will be posted in the chat shortly.

  • Remember too that we'll have time for your questions towards the end of the hour,

  • so please do submit these in the Q and A box at any point during the event and we'll get to as many

  • as we can.

  • Without any further ado.

  • Alex, Bella, welcome.

  • I'm here.