Books from Knopf Canada

Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
By Kate Harris
" As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she most craved--that of a generalist explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and philosopher--had gone extinct.
The Year of the Runaways: A novel
By Sunjeev Sahota
She is Narinder, and her story is the most surprising of all. Utterly absorbing and beautiful, sweeping in scope, The Year of the Runaways is written with compassion touched by grace.
Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas
By Harley Rustad
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF CBC'S BEST CANADIAN NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2022 For fans of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, the riveting story of the unsolved disappearance of an American backpacker in India—one of at least two dozen tourists who ...
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By Naomi Klein
Not long ago, Naomi Klein had just such an experience—she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were similar enough to her own that many people confused her for the other.
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
By Kazuo Ishiguro
In this sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores love, music and the passage of time.
Scoundrel: How a convicted murderer persuaded the women who loved him, the conservative establishment and the courts to set him...
By Sarah Weinman
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CBC AND ESQUIRE A true-crime masterpiece, this is a story of wrongful exoneration about killer Edgar Smith and the prominent crusaders who fell prey to his charm.
Come Back
By Rudy Wiebe
... P ... Polish hostel? I can hear again! Afternoon and evening with Prz. walk and talk and eat and talk September Monday 24 No Can. House mail. See Herzog films: 1) Signs of Life 2) Fata Morgana 3) Even Dwarfs Started Small, evening 4) ...
After the Falls
By Catherine Gildiner
But when tragedy strikes, it is her role as daughter that proves to be most challenging. From the Hardcover edition.
The Buried Giant: A Novel
By Kazuo Ishiguro
The extraordinary novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize–winning The Remains of the Day.
Trickster Drift
By Eden Robinson
Following the Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted Son of a Trickster comes Trickster Drift, the second book in Eden Robinson's captivating Trickster trilogy.
28: Stories of AIDS in Africa
By Stephanie Nolen
From one of our most widely read, award-winning journalists – comes the powerful, unputdownable story of the very human cost of a global pandemic of staggering scope and scale. It...
To the Land of Long Lost Friends: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (20)
By Alexander McCall Smith
In the latest book in the widely beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series Precious Ramotswe takes on a case for a childhood friend, but when her inquiries attract the attention of a prominent politician she lands herself in more ...
Last Night in Twisted River
By John Irving
" From the novel's taut opening sentence - "The young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too long." - to its elegiac final chapter, what distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author's unmistakable ...
The Selector of Souls
By Shauna Singh Baldwin
... gift was for Leela's dowry, and Piara Singh's brothers were too afraid of a dead mother's curses to give Leela trouble. Suresh both appreciated and resented his grandmother's bequest—by putting the farm in Leela's name, Ramkali Bai had ...
Motorcycles and Sweetgrass
By Drew Hayden Taylor
Maggie Second is the chief of the community in central Ontario and her mother, Lillian, is dying.
Solar
By Ian McEwan
With a global scope, Solar is a comedy dealing directly with the crises of today. A story of one man's ambitions and self-deceptions, it is a startling and stylish new departure in the work of one of the world's great writers.
Sherlock Holmes: Selected Stories
By Arthur Doyle
Sherlock Holmes: Selected Stories
The Sport of Kings
By C.E. Morgan
This is writing that, even in its wildest and most southern-gothic moments, contains both the ring of truth and the thrill of discovery.
The Mystery of Right and Wrong
By Wayne Johnston
In the university library in St. John’s, where he goes every day to absorb the great books of the world, he encounters the fascinating, South African-born Rachel van Hout, and soon they are lovers.
Every Lost Country
By Steven Heighton
Lawson is further enraged when Amaris, a Chinese-Canadian filmmaker recording the expedition, joins Book with her camcorder in hand.