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2 months ago | 
publishersweekly.com | John Maher |Jowita Bydlowska
Judy Clain at Summit (with Nicole Winstanley at S&S Canada, Ravi Mirchandani at Summit UK, and Jane Palfreyman at Summit Australia) preempted world rights to Jaded by Anne Meredith (pictured l.) from Sarah Burnes at the Gernert Company.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
fleetstreetmag.com | Jowita Bydlowska
The following Chapter One excerpt is from the novel Monster by Jowita Bydlowska. Follow FLEETSTREET on Instagram and TikTok. It’s late in May, the orange 7 p.m. sun descending slowly behind the buildings just visible from the tall windows of the bookstore. The air smells metallic, of city and dried blood, silver-grey fumes from cars, lights and noise but also spring, a moist animal muzzle rooting, the creature part of me picking up on it, stirring in its sleep.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
cbc.ca | Jowita Bydlowska |Eric Chacour |Pablo Strauss |Scott Howard
Here are the CBC Books picks for the top Canadian fiction of the year!What I Know About You by Éric Chacour, translated by Pablo StraussWhat I Know About You is a novel by Éric Chacour, left, translated by Pablo Strauss. (Justine Latour, Coach House Books)In What I Know About You, Tarek is on the right path: he'll be a doctor like his father, marry and have children.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
theifp.ca | Jowita Bydlowska
Some of the things about the guy didn’t add up but I didn’t notice for a while because he was busy, I was busy, Toronto is busy. Or maybe I didn’t want to notice, I don’t know. All I know is that I woke up in the middle of the night one time in July, a “He’s seeing somebody else” neon sign flashing in my mind.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
niagarafallsreview.ca | Jowita Bydlowska
Some of the things about the guy didn’t add up but I didn’t notice for a while because he was busy, I was busy, Toronto is busy. Or maybe I didn’t want to notice, I don’t know. All I know is that I woke up in the middle of the night one time in July, a “He’s seeing somebody else” neon sign flashing in my mind.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
thestar.com | Jowita Bydlowska
Some of the things about the guy didn’t add up but I didn’t notice for a while because he was busy, I was busy, Toronto is busy. Or maybe I didn’t want to notice, I don’t know. All I know is that I woke up in the middle of the night one time in July, a “He’s seeing somebody else” neon sign flashing in my mind.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
thestar.com | Jowita Bydlowska
Some of the things about the guy didn’t add up but I didn’t notice for a while because he was busy, I was busy, Toronto is busy. Or maybe I didn’t want to notice, I don’t know. All I know is that I woke up in the middle of the night one time in July, a “He’s seeing somebody else” neon sign flashing in my mind.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
cbc.ca | Jowita Bydlowska |Corinna Chong |Nina Berkhout |Angel B.H
Here are the new Canadian novels and short story collections we are excited about this fall. The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-GarciaThe Seventh Veil of Salome is a book by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. (Martin Dee, Del Rey)The Seventh Veil of Salomeis set in 1950s Hollywood and centres around a big-budget movie about the legendary character of Salome.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
cbc.ca | Jowita Bydlowska |CBC Books
Books·CANADIANA novel about immigrant trauma, motherhood, and female rage. A novel about immigrant trauma, motherhood, and female rageCBC Books · Posted: Aug 13, 2024 2:31 PM EDT | Last Updated: 21 minutes agoYoveeta is angry. But her rage is quiet, internal, festering inside and forming a mysterious creation that she refers to as "Monster", something that began as longing when she lost her first home, country and language, and that kept on growing as she experienced sexual and romantic trauma.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
readersdigest.in | Jowita Bydlowska
The apartment my son, Hugo, and I moved into after my divorce was nice, but the feeling we had was of holding on to a raft in angry waters. We were now about a 30-minute drive from Hugo’s dad’s new Toronto home. During the first week eight-year-old Hugo stayed with me there, he responded to the change in his life by trashing his room before finally letting tears come and allowing me to hug him.
At that time, he also developed a new fear—the fear of death. “I can’t sleep.
