 | Thursday, July 07, 2022 | |  | | | | A new month means new books! Here are some of the most anticipated Canadian titles for July 2022. Check it out! | | |  | | | | Samantha M. Bailey began writing her second thriller following the breakout success of her 2021 novel Woman on the Edge before the pandemic hit — but, she says, the anxieties of being a mother in lockdown certainly found their way into the story.
Watch Out For Her is about a mother named Sarah who thinks everything has clicked into place when she hires a babysitter, Holly, for her six-year-old son. At first, the trio form close-knit bonds. But when Sarah begins to question Holly's affection for her family and sees something she can't unsee, Sarah moves her family across the country to start over. What did she see? And who is watching Sarah now? More importantly, what do they want?
Samantha M. Bailey spoke to CBC Books about becoming the writer —and mother — she needed to become when writing her latest bestseller, Watch Out For Her. | | |  | | | | Director Clement Virgo's film adaptation of Canadian writer David Chariandy's novel Brother will make its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
Brother was championed on Canada Reads 2019 by Canadian actor, author and advocate Lisa Ray.
Set in Scarborough, Ont., in the 1990s, Chariandy's award-winning 2017 novel is a coming-of-age story that follows Francis and Michael, two brothers of Trinidadian origin, as they come up against the prejudices and low expectations that confront them. A mystery unfolds when escalating tensions set off a series of events that changes the course of the brothers' lives forever.
TIFF 2022 will run for 11 days between Sept. 8 -18. | | |  | | | | Elisabeth de Mariaffi is a writer based in St. John's. Her debut collection of stories, How to Get Along with Women, was longlisted for the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her other books include the thrillers Hysteria and The Devil You Know.
Her latest novel is The Retreat, a thriller that tells the story of a former principal dancer, Maeve Martin, who arrives at a snowy mountain retreat called High Water Center for the Arts. Maeve's plans to start her own dance company are derailed after an avalanche traps everyone inside and guests start dropping one by one.
The plot is loosely based on de Mariaffi's experience at Alberta's Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, where she spent one winter working on her writing.
She spoke with The Next Chapter's Shelagh Rogers how The Retreat came to be. | | |  | | Elamin Abdelmahmoud's first book, Son of Elsewhere, a wide-ranging collection of essays that touches on everything from his family's journey from Sudan to Canada, his Black and Muslim identity, being raised on pop culture — and how all those things intersect.
In preparing to write his memoir, Abdelmahmoud found himself turning to the nonfiction books that stayed with him long after he read them.
He told CBC Books about the essay collections that he "enjoyed spending time with" — books that shaped and inspired his own writing and thinking. | | | | |  | | | | Emma Healey is a writer. Not the British novelist of the same name, mind you, but rather the Toronto-based author, essayist and poet — and someone who's used her skill with words in plenty of other jobs.
The day jobs Healey has had over the years are chronicled in her new memoir, the cheekily titled Best Young Woman Job Book. A linked collection of essays which examine her long-held aim to be a writer through the lens of the jobs, relationships and other formative experiences that have shaped her as a person and as an artist, it's by turns frank and funny — and often both at the same time.
Healey spoke with CBC Books about taking her time to find the best way to tell her own story in Best Young Woman Job Book. | | |  | | | | Olympic gold medallist and recent Order of Canada recipient Donovan Bailey will publish his memoir in summer 2023.
The champion Canadian sprinter, once known as "the world's fastest man" for his gold medals at the World Championships and the Summer Olympics in the mid-1990s — including winning the 100-metre competition in a record-breaking time of 9.84 seconds at the 1996 Games — is writing the as yet untitled book along with Sportsnet.ca senior writer David Singh.
It will be published by Random House Canada. | | |  | | Jesse Wente is an Anishinaabe writer, broadcaster and arts leader. He's well-known to radio listeners as a longtime columnist for CBC Radio's Metro Morning.
When he was just three years old, Wente fell in love with the 1977 epic space-opera film Star Wars. He remembers it fondly because it ignited in him an abiding love for film and storytelling.
Wente is a member of the Serpent River First Nation. He reflects on his roots in his 2021 book Unreconciled, a memoir that explores Indigenous assimilation, identity and truth and reconciliation, and how Wente is using his passion for cinema to ground Indigenous stories in joy.
He spoke with The Next Chapter's Shelagh Rogers about writing Unreconciled. | | | | |  | | | | The work of Kent Monkman is always arresting — whether it's a lush landscape, an immersive mixed-media installation, or a vivid performance. At centre stage is his flamboyant, two-spirit artistic persona, Miss Chief, or "mischief" — a kind of trickster figure in drag, through which Monkman challenges the representation of Indigenous people in Western art. Monkman was born in 1965 to a mother of English and Irish descent and a Cree father. He grew up in Winnipeg, where he strongly identified with his Indigenous roots. His work is widely exhibited in Canada and internationally, including at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Through the summer of 2022, he has exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada and at the Royal Ontario Museum in the fall.
Monkman spoke to Writers and Company's Eleanor Wachtel in Toronto in 2016. | | |  | | | | Hilary Mantel, the queen of the historical novel, turned 70 on July 6, 2022. The U.K.-born author is one of the few writers who has won England's Booker Prize twice.
Mantel won the awards for the first two books in the Thomas Cromwell trilogy — first in 2009 for Wolf Hall and again in 2012 for its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies.
The Mirror & the Light, the final novel of Hilary Mantel's popular Tudor trilogy chronicling the life of the influential English minister in the court of King Henry VIII, was released in March 2020 and sold more than 95,000 copies in its first three days. It was longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize and was a finalist for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction.
To celebrate Hilary Mantel's 70th birthday, here are 36 things you might not know about the historical fiction master. Check it out! | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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