Jenny Mustard
@jennymustard.bsky.social
• WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE (‘25) • OKAY DAYS (‘23) • on youtube (500k) • literary agent: Peter Straus at RCW • film agent: Emily Hayward-Whitlock at TAP • a swede in london
Yes, it appears I have somehow mustered the nerves to write an ANNA KARENINA reimagining. But this is my third novel, so I felt it should show some ambition. @zandoprojects.bsky.social @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social @thegernertco.bsky.social @ellaharold.bsky.social @eichbornverlag.bsky.social
WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE by @jennymustard.bsky.social was chosen as a @nytimes.com editor's choice pick for the week! Check it out:
6 New Books We Love This Week
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"A nuanced look at the uneven playing fields of friendship and love." @nytimes.com reviewed WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE by @jennymustard.bsky.social! 🔥
‘What a Time to Be Alive’? In Fact It Is, Two New Novels Say.
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New York! Come celebrate the US launch of What A Time To Be Alive with me and the one and only @katiekitamura.bsky.social Tickets: www.strandbooks.com/event11225-2... @strandbookstore.bsky.social
New podcast episode – with my brilliant friend & novelist extraordinaire @caoilinnhughes.bsky.social We discuss our new novels, voice-driven literature & the forever thorny subject of unlikeable female characters Find iton all major podcast apps or here: open.spotify.com/episode/3BLI...
Chairing the launch of @elainefeeney.bsky.social ’s spectacular new novel Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way, I talked to so many intelligent people I felt my brain swell by osmosis. Thank you @foylesforbooks.bsky.social for having us!
Tomorrow! I’m interviewing the formidable @elainefeeney.bsky.social ! Tickets: www.foyles.co.uk/events/elain... @foylesforbooks.bsky.social @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
For Stylist, I wrote about female friendships on the verge of romance: www.stylist.co.uk/relationship... @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
This week in the column, I rattle on a lot about theatre and art, hoping my editor would let me get way with it. He did. Recent reading includes new novels from Seán Hewitt and @jennymustard.bsky.social and the most recent series of essays from Ta-Nehisi Coates. In Saturday's @independent.ie or:
Rick O’Shea: One of America’s smartest political minds makes a brave admission about Israel
Don’t ever let anyone tell you that turning 50 is hard; turning 50 is a doddle. For me, it involved an eight-month series of arm-chancing trips to New York, Portugal and Iceland after I made sad puppy...
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Day 4 of my 7-day birthday extravaganza: Ridiculously long brunch, crossword puzzles, two pots of Earl Grey, Swedish '40s music
Tomorrow! Nice weather, good company, a glass of wine why not Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/its-hardba... @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
Thrilled to be a guest on one of my favourite podcasts: Monocle Radio’s MEET THE WRITERS with the wonderful @georginagodwin.bsky.social Listen to the episode: open.spotify.com/episode/0522... @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
Tonight! Foyles Charing Cross Road! www.foyles.co.uk/events/jenny... @foylesforbooks.bsky.social @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
One of the best things I've read this year. Loved it!
Jenny Mustard@jennymustard.bsky.social · 2y agoIt’s my publication day! What a time to be alive, indeed @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
I loved this. Funny and real and interesting.
Jenny Mustard@jennymustard.bsky.social · 2y agoIt’s my publication day! What a time to be alive, indeed @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
This is one of the best things I have read this year. @jennymustard.bsky.social's novel of a young woman's early student life in Stockholm as she desperately wants to escape unhappy years of bullying in a small town and find meaningful relationships is exquisitely observed. Loved it. #BookSky
May 1st! With wonderful It’s Hardback Out There at favourite bookshop Libreria Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/its-hardba...
For the Evening Standard, I wrote about Stockholm: www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/tr... @thelondonstandard.bsky.social
Join me and Dakota Warren at Foyles Charing Cross! Tickets: www.foyles.co.uk/events/jenny... @foylesforbooks.bsky.social
foyles charing cross! april 28th! hope to see you: www.foyles.co.uk/events/jenny... @foylesforbooks.bsky.social @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
it hasn’t happened until it’s on publishers marketplace because yes! overjoyed to share that WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE will be published in the US by Pegasus this october! heartfelt thanks to Pegasus, & to my smashing agent Peter Straus at RCW
i loved maggie nelson’s new book (to no one’s surprise). written with more or less perfect emotional pitch: melancholia balanced with humour, grief and pain tempered by joy. full of warmth, wisdom, and weirdness.
pics from Sceptre Salon! we heard from the wildly talented authors on their 2025 list, including superstars below: @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, @jennymustard.bsky.social, @gabrielflynn.bsky.social, @arifa.bsky.social, @elfodongo.bsky.social & @jennashworth.bsky.social @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
taking a severely needed breather. see you on monday: 4 days, 3 romcoms, 1 french musical, 3 novels, 14 coupes of champagne, and my own weight in popcorn from now.
the wonderful @caoilinnhughes.bsky.social ‘s THE ALTERNATIVES is out in paperback today a truly unique and exciting novel @oneworldbooks.bsky.social
