Books from Knopf Canada

  • The Andalucian Friend
    The Andalucian Friend
    By Alexander Soderberg

    Enemies are everywhere in this monumental international crime thriller that Brad Thor calls "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets The Sopranos.

  • All Things Being Equal: Why Math Is the Key to a Better World
    All Things Being Equal: Why Math Is the Key to a Better World
    By John Mighton

    ... it turned out to be extraordinarily hard to answer. Most mathematicians thought that four colours were sufficient to colour any map, but, like Euclid's fifth axiom, this conjecture inspired many false proofs. ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL 217.

  • Theory
    Theory
    By Dionne Brand

    By effortlessly telling this short, intense tale in the voice of an unnamed, ungendered (and brilliantly unreliable) narrator, Dionne Brand makes a bold statement not only about love and personhood, but about race and gender—and what can ...

  • The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
    The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
    By Michael Finkel

    This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.

  • Stray Dogs: And Other Stories
    Stray Dogs: And Other Stories
    By Rawi Hage

    Politically astute, philosophically wise, humane, relevant and caustically funny, these stories reveal the singular vision of award-winning writer Rawi Hage at his best.

  • The Infinity Puzzle: How the Hunt to Understand the Universe Led to Extraordinary Science, High Politics, and the Large Hadron...
    The Infinity Puzzle: How the Hunt to Understand the Universe Led to Extraordinary Science, High Politics, and the Large Hadron...
    By Frank Close

    ... Longing for the Harmonies, where he writes, “I had wasted many hours in consternation and confusion simply because I was too trusting, a little lazy, and hadn't given 5 minutes to check this thing.” F. Wilczek and B. Devine, Longing for ...

  • The Mandela Plot
    The Mandela Plot
    By Kenneth Bonert

    The second novel from GG finalist and international award winner Kenneth Bonert, who brought Jewish Johannesburg to explosive life in his 2013 debut, The Lion Seeker.

  • Floating City
    Floating City
    By Kerri Sakamoto

    Buckminster Fuller's role as Frankie's outsized spiritual mentor is one of just many real-life touchstones and extraordinary points of colour in this fairytale-like story about family, ambition and the costs of turning our backs on history ...

  • The Distance Between Us
    The Distance Between Us
    By Maggie O'Farrell

    Winner of the 2004 Somerset Maugham Award: Gripping, insightful, and deft—a haunting story about the ways our families shape our lives, from the award-winning author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait.