Description
Join bestselling author Bea Fitzgerald for a special event celebrating her new novel, Better Than Revenge, a sharp and addictive story of competition, celebrity culture and complicated desire set against the glitz of drama school and Hollywood fame.
Following aspiring actress Nadine Heywood and her intense rivalry with the brilliant Harper Moore, the novel explores ambition, performance, public image and the fine line between hatred and attraction.
In conversation, Fitzgerald discusses writing obsession, morally messy characters and the enduring appeal of stories driven by fame, rivalry and revenge.
About the Author
Bea Fitzgerald
Bea Fitzgerald is a Sunday Times bestselling author and content creator who has swiftly become one of the UK’s biggest YA stars. Her debut Girl, Goddess, Queen was the bestselling YA hardback debut of 2023 and her follow-ups The End Crowns All and A Beautiful Evil were both instant bestsellers. In 2024, Girl, Goddess, Queen won the Romantic Novelists’ Association Fantasy Romance of the Year. Her work has also been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the YA Book Prize and The Books Are My Bag award. Bea’s work has been translated widely across the globe, and when she’s not writing, she’s entertaining her followers on TikTok and Instagram with her mythology-themed comedy account @chaosonolympus.
About the Chair
Yvette Huddleston
Yvette Huddleston is a freelance arts journalist and arts correspondent for the Yorkshire Post. She writes on film, theatre, literature and visual art for national and regional publications. She also chairs events and debates at literature and arts festivals across the North, contributes to BBC local radio discussions on regional arts, and has appeared as a guest critic on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row.
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