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**Order the paperback of Bella Mackie's latest hilarious novel, WHAT A WAY TO GO, now** THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘I loved this book’ RICHARD OSMAN‘Funny, sharp, dark and twisted’ JOJO MOYES‘Chilling, but also laugh-out-loud funny. Another corker’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH They say you can’t choose your family. But you can kill them. Meet Grace Bernard.Daughter, sister, serial killer…Grace has lost everything.And she will stop at nothing to get revenge.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-‘Funny and furious and strangely uplifting. Grace is a bitter and beguiling anti-hero with a keen eye for social analysis – even in her most grisly deeds, you never stop rooting for her’ PANDORA SYKES‘Deliciously addictive…brilliantly executed’ i PAPER‘Addictive… Grace Bernard is one of the most intriguing and bewitching protagonists I've read in years’ EMMA GANNON‘A funny, compulsive read about family dysfunction and the media’s obsession with murder’ SUNDAY TIMES STYLE‘You’ll be gripped… Grace’s emotional detachment throughout will give you chills’ Rated 5 stars by COSMOPOLITAN⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Hilarious and dark’ ELLE‘Ironic twists and caustic commentary on everything from liberal guilt to the consumerist con that is “selfcare” sharpen this debut novel’ OBSERVER‘Brilliantly tongue-in-cheek stuff from the Vogue columnist’ IRISH INDEPENDENT‘Witty, waspish satire of a murderer with no regrets’ GRAZIA‘Original, funny, unique and such a refreshing read’ PRIMA‘A deliciously dark debut novel’ RED‘One very entertaining read’ WOMAN’S WAYHow To Kill Your Family was number 1 in the Sunday Times paperback chart on 26/04/2022

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Bella’s brilliant love letter to running turns into an extraordinarily brave and frank account of her battle with anxiety. A compassionate and important book’ Joe Lycett ‘Perfect for resetting a glum January mindset’ Alexandra Heminsley ‘My kind of role model’ Ben Fogle Divorced and struggling with deep-rooted mental health problems, Bella Mackie ended her twenties in tears. She could barely find the strength to get off the sofa, let alone piece her life back together. Until one day she did something she had never done of her own free will – she pulled on a pair of trainers and went for a run.That first attempt didn’t last very long. But to her surprise, she was back out there the next day. And the day after that. She began to set herself achievable goals – to run 5k in under 30 minutes, to walk to work every day for a week, to attempt 10 push-ups in a row. Before she knew it, her mood was lifting for the first time in years.In Jog On, Bella explains with hilarious and unfiltered honesty how she used running to battle crippling anxiety and depression, without having to sacrifice her main loves: booze, cigarettes and ice cream. With the help of a supporting cast of doctors, psychologists, sportspeople and friends, she shares a wealth of inspirational stories, research and tips that show how exercise often can be the best medicine. This funny, moving and motivational book will encourage you to say ‘jog on’ to your problems and get your life back on track – no matter how small those first steps may be.

THE MILLION COPY #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY IS BACK WITH THE NEW BOOK OF THE MOMENT Delicious' JOJO MOYES 'Super-sharp, lethally witty' NIGELLA LAWSON ‘Wonderfully wicked’ RED 'Very funny… I inhaled it' JOE LYCETT ‘Taut, pacy, seamless… a huge pleasure to read’ MARIAN KEYES ‘I was immensely grateful that despite the gruesome way my husband died, he’d done it with his clothes on.’ 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 everything comes crashing down…'A blend of Miss Marple-style whodunnit and social comedy — a gleeful satirising of the awfulness of the 1 per cent in TV shows such as The White Lotus and Succession’SUNDAY TIMES, Pick of the Month‘Mackie has assembled a gloriously repugnant cast – everyone here, apart from her rather sweet TikTok sleuth, is dreadful, but in a pleasurably awful way… A dark, funny story of a very dysfunctional family’ OBSERVER‘Wonderfully wicked’ RED MAGAZINE‘Ferociously entertaining’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING‘Gripping, sharp and funny, this window on the mega-wealthy is perfect for fans of Succession’ WOMAN & HOME‘Another caustic satire from the million-copy bestseller of How to Kill Your Family’ i NEWS'Still not over Succession? A dysfunctional family with four inheritance-obsessed children gives the Roy clan a run for its money, with a murderous twist' SUNDAY TIMES STYLE WHAT READERS LOVE ABOUT BELLA MACKIE: ‘Just when you think you're a step ahead, she pulls something out of the bag’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Caustic sarcasm… delivered with elegance’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Mackie’s writing is sharp and funny’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Her sarcasm knows no bounds and I love it’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Sparky, slick, wildly compulsive’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Macabre, flippant, and darkly hilarious’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Her irreverent, withering put-downs and sharply observed comments’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What A Way To Go was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 16.09.24

THE MILLION COPY #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY IS BACK WITH THE NEW BOOK OF THE MOMENT Delicious' JOJO MOYES 'Super-sharp, lethally witty' NIGELLA LAWSON ‘Wonderfully wicked’ RED 'Very funny… I inhaled it' JOE LYCETT ‘Taut, pacy, seamless… a huge pleasure to read’ MARIAN KEYES 'Thoroughly enjoyable, like Succession rewritten by Agatha Christie’ MAIL ON SUNDAY ‘Mackie has assembled a gloriously repugnant cast… A dark, funny story of a very dysfunctional family’ OBSERVER Meet the Wisterns. Rich. Powerful. Morally bankrupt. Anthony is dead. His wife and four children each have a motive.And there’s a true crime-obsessed outsider ready to expose the killer… With a family like this, who needs enemies? ‘Ferociously entertaining’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING‘Gripping, sharp and funny, this window on the mega-wealthy is perfect for fans of Succession’ WOMAN & HOME‘Another caustic satire from the million-copy bestseller of How to Kill Your Family’ i NEWS'Still not over Succession? A dysfunctional family with four inheritance-obsessed children gives the Roy clan a run for its money, with a murderous twist' SUNDAY TIMES STYLE WHAT READERS LOVE ABOUT BELLA MACKIE: ‘Just when you think you're a step ahead, she pulls something out of the bag’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Caustic sarcasm… delivered with elegance’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Mackie’s writing is sharp and funny’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Her sarcasm knows no bounds and I love it’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Sparky, slick, wildly compulsive’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Macabre, flippant, and darkly hilarious’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Her irreverent, withering put-downs and sharply observed comments’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What A Way To Go was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 16.09.24

PRAISE FOR BELLA MACKIE: 'Delicious' JOJO MOYES 'Super-sharp, lethally witty' NIGELLA LAWSON ‘Wonderfully wicked’ RED 'You know Diana Leyland… she climbed the ladder by marrying a man on each rung! I think she gets rid of them when she’s got what she needs… I wonder who’s next?' Diana’s on the hunt again and has the perfect new target.Finally, the type of wealth she’s always dreamed of. A five-storey house in Hampstead, unfettered access to London’s liberal elite and a bloated bank account. If she can ensnare David Farrand, then she really will have clawed her way right to the top.And Diana's got form. Three husbands already under her belt, she knows exactly how to reel them in. Such a shame the silly old fools all died so quickly, but let’s not blame the woman now.The only snag? David’s daughter, Cat. Entitled, suspicious and used to getting her own way. Diana might have got her claws into David, but Cat's not averse to a fight, and will stop at nothing to reveal the truth about her murky past… Because to lose one husband is unlucky. To lose two is careless. But three? Three must be murder.

PRAISE FOR BELLA MACKIE: 'Delicious' JOJO MOYES 'Super-sharp, lethally witty' NIGELLA LAWSON ‘Wonderfully wicked’ RED 'Very funny… I inhaled it' JOE LYCETT ‘Taut, pacy, seamless… a huge pleasure to read’ MARIAN KEYES 'You know Diana Leyland… she climbed the ladder by marrying a man on each rung! I think she gets rid of them when she’s got what she needs… I wonder who’s next?' Diana’s on the hunt again and has the perfect new target.Finally, the type of wealth she’s always dreamed of. A five-storey house in Hampstead, unfettered access to London’s liberal elite and a bloated bank account. If she can ensnare David Farrand, then she really will have clawed her way right to the top.And Diana's got form. Three husbands already under her belt, she knows exactly how to reel them in. Such a shame the silly old fools all died so quickly, but let’s not blame the woman now.The only snag? David’s daughter, Cat. Entitled, suspicious and used to getting her own way. Diana might have got her claws into David, but Cat's not averse to a fight, and will stop at nothing to reveal the truth about her murky past… Because to lose one husband is unlucky. To lose two is careless. But three? Three must be murder.

THE MILLION COPY #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY IS BACK WITH THE NEW BOOK OF THE MOMENT Delicious' JOJO MOYES 'Super-sharp, lethally witty' NIGELLA LAWSON ‘Wonderfully wicked’ RED 'Very funny… I inhaled it' JOE LYCETT ‘Taut, pacy, seamless… a huge pleasure to read’ MARIAN KEYES 'Thoroughly enjoyable, like Succession rewritten by Agatha Christie’ MAIL ON SUNDAY ‘Mackie has assembled a gloriously repugnant cast… A dark, funny story of a very dysfunctional family’ OBSERVER Meet the Wisterns. Rich. Powerful. Morally bankrupt. Anthony is dead. His wife and four children each have a motive.And there’s a true crime-obsessed outsider ready to expose the killer… With a family like this, who needs enemies? ‘Ferociously entertaining’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING‘Gripping, sharp and funny, this window on the mega-wealthy is perfect for fans of Succession’ WOMAN & HOME‘Another caustic satire from the million-copy bestseller of How to Kill Your Family’ i NEWS'Still not over Succession? A dysfunctional family with four inheritance-obsessed children gives the Roy clan a run for its money, with a murderous twist' SUNDAY TIMES STYLE WHAT READERS LOVE ABOUT BELLA MACKIE: ‘Just when you think you're a step ahead, she pulls something out of the bag’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Caustic sarcasm… delivered with elegance’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Mackie’s writing is sharp and funny’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Her sarcasm knows no bounds and I love it’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Sparky, slick, wildly compulsive’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Macabre, flippant, and darkly hilarious’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Her irreverent, withering put-downs and sharply observed comments’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What A Way To Go was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 16.09.24

**Order the paperback of Bella Mackie's latest hilarious novel, WHAT A WAY TO GO, now** THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘I loved this book’ RICHARD OSMAN‘Funny, sharp, dark and twisted’ JOJO MOYES‘Chilling, but also laugh-out-loud funny. Another corker’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPHThey say you can’t choose your family. But you can kill them…Meet Grace Bernard.Daughter, sister, serial killer.Grace has lost everything.And she will stop at nothing to get revenge.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-‘Chilling, but also laugh-out-loud funny. Another corker’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH‘I’ve struggled to recover my reading mojo since lockdown. This turned out to be the thing that sparked it back to life… Funny, sharp, dark and twisted, Grace is a character I found myself rooting for even as she committed the most vile misdeeds’ JOJO MOYES‘Deliciously addictive…brilliantly executed’ i PAPER‘Addictive… Grace Bernard is one of the most intriguing and bewitching protagonists I've read in years’ EMMA GANNON‘A funny, compulsive read about family dysfunction and the media’s obsession with murder’ SUNDAY TIMES STYLE‘Hilarious and dark’ ELLE‘Ironic twists and caustic commentary on everything from liberal guilt to the consumerist con that is “selfcare” sharpen this debut novel’ OBSERVER‘Brilliantly tongue-in-cheek stuff from the Vogue columnist’ IRISH INDEPENDENT‘Witty, waspish satire of a murderer with no regrets’ GRAZIA‘Original, funny, unique and such a refreshing read’ PRIMA‘A deliciously dark debut novel’ RED‘One very entertaining read’ WOMAN’S WAY