Jenny Mustard
• 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
- Thank you @thebookseller.com www.thebookseller.com/rights/fig-t... @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social @eichbornverlag.bsky.social @zandoprojects.bsky.social @ellaharold.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social
- 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
- Reposted by Jenny MustardWHAT 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:
- Reposted by Jenny Mustard"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! 🔥
- Thank you @irishtimes.com & Doreen Finn! @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
- 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
- Reposted by Jenny MustardThis 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:
- 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
- Reposted by Jenny MustardOne of the best things I've read this year. Loved it!
- It’s my publication day! What a time to be alive, indeed @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jenny MustardI loved this. Funny and real and interesting.
- It’s my publication day! What a time to be alive, indeed @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
- It’s my publication day! What a time to be alive, indeed @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jenny MustardThis 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
- Reposted by Jenny MustardLife, eh? variety.com/2025/film/gl...
- 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.
- thank you @vintagebooks.bsky.social for sending out in may
- Reposted by Jenny Mustardpics 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
- Reposted by Jenny MustardMy January favorites x
- Reposted by Jenny MustardReally loved WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE, the forthcoming (second) novel by @jennymustard.bsky.social, how unexpected it is, how subtle, yet open and direct, its beautiful relationship to light and darkness, closeness and distance, gentleness and violence, in interior and exterior ways both.
- Reposted by Jenny MustardI loved/bonded with What A Time To Be Alive by @jennymustard.bsky.social A young woman from southern Sweden searching for herself in love, in friendship and, most of all, in the micro-awareness of one's own endlessly dissectible nature. Heartfelt in all sorts of surprising ways. Romantic too.
- current (wonderful) company
- this is supposed to be my high priority stack. i look away a second and it somehow swells.
- Reposted by Jenny MustardThis morning I'm enjoying What A Time To Be Alive by Jenny Mustard. A student from southern Sweden finding her way at college in Stockholm. Love the point of view – a half beat before, to the side of or after the action, hitting the bullseye of deadpan. It mentions cinnamon rolls, so naturally ...
- when visiting 15 bookshops on tuesday, in a remarkable show of self-discipline, i came home with only these. starting the levy tonight, a glass of wine, an empty flat, blueberries. i’ve read 1 of her novels before, but the memoirs are a whole other species of text, no? @picadorbooks.bsky.social
- yesterday’s results: 15 bookshops 15 proofs of WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE 1 david 30 bags of horrible swedish sweets (warning labelled) 1 tofu rice salad 4 buses 2 cups of black coffee 1 cup of black tea 476 layers of clothing countless charming & intelligent booksellers @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
- just finished the dystopian coming-of-age THE MORNINGSIDE by @teaobreht.bsky.social – a thrilling, magical, beautifully written novel. i flew through it, but expect it will stay will me for a long time. thank you @letticefranklin.bsky.social & @wnbooks.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jenny MustardIt's blue Monday so i decided to make toast at 10.20 like a true decadent & then this exciting book post arrived, thus affirming my choice of decadence & all future choices of decadence for 2025 ✨️ @bansheepress.bsky.social @clairek12.bsky.social @jennymustard.bsky.social @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
- quite the enticing delivery today. might just simultaneously read all three because frankly i don’t know where to start. thank you peninsula press, you have done it again. @therakha.net
- bookcase reorganisation, before & after (took 2 blue ikea bags to the charity shop) before you come for me: i know in which stack every single book is. i can find them in 2 secs flat. also have 100 or so other books milling around the flat, and those are sometimes a bit harder to locate.
- awfully inviting
- fiction to look forward to according to the one and only @rickoshea.bsky.social in the @irishindependent.bsky.social
- thank you to @sweetoblivion.bsky.social and @thejournal.ie for looking out for WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE
