HarperCollins announces UK tour for Bella Mackie’s What a Way to Go 

HarperCollins has unveiled a UK tour for Bella Mackie’s second novel What a Way to Go, which will take place from Edinburgh to Brighton across large-scale venues and independent bookshops.

Acquired in a two-book deal announced in 2019, the novel’s synopsis reads: "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.

“Unfortunately for him, he is also dead. And now poised to inherit his fortune, each member of his family falls under suspicion. None of them seem to be worried about where the money is. Or to have noticed the murder-obsessed outsider, looking to expose them all…"

Scheduled to publish on 12th September, the novel follows Mackie’s debut, How To Kill Your Family, which was a number one Sunday Times bestseller and spent 47 weeks in the top 10 in paperback. It was published on 22nd July 2021.

The tour for What a Way to Go will see Mackie participate in 12 events across the atumn, including two events with Fane

in London’s Union Chapel and Birmingham Town Hall, Waterstones Liverpool, Brighton and Newcastle, a virtual event and a number of independent bookshops up and down the UK. Bert Books, whose window display featuring How to Kill Your Family alongside Prince Harry’s memoir Spare (Bantam) went viral last autumn, will host a signing.

Bella Mackie is also the author of Jog On (William Collins), and has written for the Guardian, Vogue and Vice. In 2023 she judged the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2023 and her work has been shortlisted for the British Book Awards. Tickets for all events will be on sale this week through Fane, Waterstones and independent bookshops.