How has it taken me so long to read this book? It's so creepy and weird and compelling and engrossing. It's truly a novel of another time and place. Now I have to go watch the movie again. Read it! It's amazing!
pickI loved this book. I thought it was smart and totally absorbing in the way that, say, Meg Wolitzer is.
Italo Calvino, where have you been all my life? Imagine, in the few days since I turned 50, I have discovered both granita di caffe con panna AND this amazing novel. How is that possible? What other pleasures await me in my fifties? I‘d better stay in Italy for a few more years to find out.
Hi Litsy friends--Just a quick note to let you know that the first three Kopp novels are $2.99 everywhere ebooks are sold--grab 'em while you can!
Fabulous event last night with Elizabeth Gilbert, in a packed hall sponsored by @Powells and now I‘m diving into the book. It‘s delightful so far. Who‘s reading it?
Another amazing Sarah Waters novel. I'm trying not to inhale them all at once, but I can't seem to help myself. If you love creepy old English estates that are quite possibly haunted, love gone wrong, and ordinary people driven to madness, then you will love this book.
Has anyone seen the movie????
Anne Tyler has one story to tell, and she tells it over and over. It's a story about women who find themselves adrift, slightly out of step, disconnected from their families in ways that puzzle them but that they can't fix, until one day....
And that's this book. I loved it absolutely as much as I've loved every Anne Tyler novel. What else is there to say? Read it!
Hey, would you like to read a novel written from the point of view of Peggy Guggenheim‘s teenage daughter, set in the Mexican jungle during World War II and populated by lightly fictionalized version is of the artists who escaped the war with her? It‘s so crazy good! Watch for it in July from @Tin_House! Also, I want to wallpaper a room with this cover.
Just a heads-up that there‘s a $2.99 ebook deal going on all month long...everywhere books are sold. And if you‘re not an ebook reader, I give away real paper copies every month in my newsletter
$2.99 ebook alert! This one might be today only. Everywhere ebooks are sold.
Another extraordinary novel from Sarah Waters. I can't believe I'm only just now discovering these books. I'm amazed by her range and her ability to conjure another era in such an all-absorbing, spellbinding way. This one is an absolutely perfect Gothic mystery/tragedy/ghost story, set in a Victorian-era women's prison. If you read Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and felt like you'd never read anything as good again--THIS!!!!
Hey, look what I just got! Coming Sept 17, but I‘ll be doing some giveaways in my newsletter (and here on Litsy eventually) so stay tuned!
$1.99 ebook today!
Hey, if you love the idea of deeply convincing historical fiction about the lives of ordinary British women just after WWI, which veers slowly into a gorgeous lesbian romance, and (I haven‘t reached this part yet, but according to the reviews) then transforms into a murder mystery—well, you will adore this magnificent novel as much as I do. I‘m only halfway through, so don‘t tell me how it ends!
You know those books you love so much that throughout the day you think, "I can't wait to crawl back in bed and read that book some more"--well, this is one of those books. It's a creepy British murder mystery with Victorian gothic literature as its reference point, a spooky attic and even spookier abandoned factory--really, it's just exactly the book you want to be reading in front of the fire on a dark and stormy night. Go do that right now!
pickThis is a perfect novel. So creepy and weird and good.
I adored this book! I generally don‘t like novels that weave between a historical story and a modern day researcher/historian trying to figure her own life out as informed by this other past life (how is this a genre, much less one I know well enough to have an opinion about) but actually this is a memoir and a lovely depiction of a real person grappling with a subject she‘s trying to write about and understand—and I do relate to that! Lovely book
Last day! Enter to win all 4 (so far!) Kopp Sisters novels—this giveaway is just for Litsy! Ends tonight
https://mailchi.mp/amystewart/litsy
Just a quick reminder that I‘m giving away all four Kopp Sisters novels—and this is for Litsy only! Enter by Dec 20
https://mailchi.mp/amystewart/litsy
Just a reminder that I‘m giving away all four Kopp Sisters novels to Litsy readers only! This one‘s just for you. Go here to enter by Dec 20:
https://mailchi.mp/amystewart/litsy
I have only just discovered Nina Stibbe and I am tearing through all her books as fast as I can. Tthis is the first, and it's fantastic. If you don't think you'd like to read a collection of letters from a young London nanny to her sister--well, read it anyway. It's sharp, funny, brilliant, British, and did I mention that she's the nanny of the editor of the London Review of Books and Alan Bennett lives across the street?
Picked this up at @Powells - an epistolary mystery that involves plant poisons. What‘s not to like? Speaking of which—would love more recommendations for great novels told exclusively through letters, diaries, or both.
Hey, just popping in to let you know that for twelve bucks, you can buy four novels into which I poured my heart, soul, and every waking moment for the last eight years, or you can have this cinnamon-scented Hot Buns candle. You choose. Available everywhere ebooks are sold
Friends on Litsy! I promised to do a giveaway of the new Kopp novel just for you, and...well, I‘m running a couple months late. But here it is now! Link below. To atone for my tardiness, I‘m giving away all four Kopp Sisters novels—and this is just for Litsy! #giveaway #contest #freebooks
https://mailchi.mp/amystewart/litsy
How is it possible that I missed this book when it came out? This is an absolutely gorgeous, sensual, beautifully written novel about MFK Fisher's affair with her husband's best friend. Food, sex, glamorous travel, and the real-life story of a woman writer I knew little about...what's not to like?
Did I mention that the writing is GORGEOUS? I read that the author spent ten years researching and writing it, and I believe it.
Hey, just a heads-up that there‘s a “start a series” promotion going on everywhere ebooks are sold. Get #1 for $2.99. (Give it as a gift! All you need to gift an ebook is the recipient‘s email address.)
Hi, would you like to read a laugh-out-loud funny, lighthearted, smart, sassy, somewhat dark and weird and fantastical novel that will take you completely away from current events and make you feel like you‘re eating birthday cake all day, only now somehow birthday cake is good for you?
That‘s this novel. Also, I would like somebody to write an essay about how THE SISTERS BROTHERS is a Coen brothers movie and this one is a Wes Anderson movie.
The Estonian edition!
Tour dates! See you out there, friends.
I‘m going to interview Tim Dorsey onstage at Bouchercon in a couple of weeks. Any Dorsey fans here? Let me know if you have a question you‘d like me to ask!
Dismantling the Patriarchy One Cocktail at a Time. With truly great profiles of feminist heroes. Buy a dozen and give as gifts to your BFFs
Do you want to read a novel about two sisters living in a mouldering English castle under difficult circumstances, one of whom is a writer? Do you want to read a book that makes you feel the way you felt when you read books like The Secret Garden, only now you‘re an adult and it needs to hold up for adults? Then this is your next book. It‘s so damn good. I‘m moving on to her other novels NOW. (She also wrote 101 Dalmatians).
There‘s a $2.99 ebook sale on if you‘re so inclined...
The most terrifying part about this book was not the characters being killed off one by one, but the fact that they had to eat something called tinned tongue while they waited.
Happy pub date to WHO IS VERA KELLY! I‘m giving away a copy, plus a new paperback of MISS KOPP (because they almost match!) and some swag. Here‘s the link:
https://mailchi.mp/amystewart.com/june2018giveaway
It‘s Paperback Day for MISS KOPP‘S MIDNIGHT CONFESSIONS, and I‘m celebrating with a big giveaway on my FB page. If you‘re interested, go there and search for AmyStewartAuthor, or sign up for my newsletter at Amy Stewart.com/newsletter for another shot at it. And yes, a Litsy giveaway is coming later this summer when we are ready to roll out the next book!
Hey Litsy friends! I have some news!
Would you enjoy a light comedic British novel about a middle-aged woman who loves a good drink, a good time, satisfying sex, and small luxuries, but rarely manages to have more than one of those at a time? Then you will love this novel. All of Margery Sharp‘s ebooks are $3 right now. I own all of them and I read them over and over. You should too.
For research purposes-an excellent history of ladies beating people up.
Hey everybody! Just wanted to let you know that this exists. The first three Kopp novels in an ebook bundle, with some bonus material, on sale this week for $3.99. That‘s crazy cheap IMHO, but they don‘t ask me! :)
I‘m flat on the couch with a bad back reading this amazing novel with some really excellent dosas on the way and it‘s just about the best Saturday night ever. That‘s all I wanted to say.
I‘m so excited about the Spanish edition of The Drunken Botanist! Finally, a foreign edition that I can read—and it‘s for sale in the US!
“I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on as if nothing special had happened.”
OMG how had I never read this before????? It‘s brilliant.
pickFollowing Mrs. Bridge...the sequel (told from the husband‘s POV) is considerably darker and weirder. He‘s just as cloistered in white suburbia as his wife, just as emotionally stifled, but considerably more prejudiced. When I think about the time period when this was written, I can see what a pointed critique of the country club set it really was. Well worth reading—quick and engrossing—read with a friend, because you will want to talk about it!
pickWOW. I picked this up after Meg Wolitzer recommended it in the NYT and it‘s incredible. A sweet, wistful, sometimes sad novel that is also a sharp social commentary. It reminded me of a few women in my family. Now I‘m off to pick up the sequel, Mr. Bridge.
Hey look—we have a cover! This is the novel I started writing today after the 2016 election – and it‘s about the election of 1916. Entertainment Weekly just posted an excerpt.
Haven‘t read it, but this title made me laugh out loud (I mean, read the subtitle as well)—-And it‘s a good excuse to post a picture of my chicken.
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