Books from Knopf Canada

  • The Children Act
    By Ian McEwan

    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A brilliant, emotionally wrenching novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam. Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London presiding over cases in...

  • Art and Rivalry: The Marriage of Mary and Christopher Pratt
    By Carol Bishop-Gwyn

    The unauthorized biography of Canada's most famous artist couple and the rivalry that drove them.

  • Fresh Complaint: Stories
    By Jeffrey Eugenides

    The stories in Fresh Complaint continue that tradition.

  • This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
    By Naomi Klein

    No Logo did so for globalization. The Shock Doctrine changed the way we think about austerity. This Changes Everything is about to upend the debate about the stormy era already upon us.

  • Nigella Christmas: Food, Family, Friends, Festivities: A Cookbook
    By Nigella Lawson

    Nigella Christmas will surely become an all-time perennial favourite, the book we will all reach for – for minimum stress and maximum enjoyment – at holiday season.

  • I Curse the River of Time
    By Per Petterson

    I Curse the River of Time, the new novel from the winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for Out Stealing Horses, is a mesmerizingly beautiful book about love, regret, family secrets and failed revolution.

  • Hamnet: A novel
    By Maggie O'Farrell

    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[An] exceptional winner.... It expresses something profound about the human experience...

  • Of Love and Evil: The Songs of the Seraphim, Book Two
    By Anne Rice

    Anne Rice's magnificent Songs of the Seraphim series continues with a lyrical and haunting new novel of angels and assassins set in dark and dangerous worlds — in our time and in centuries past.

  • A Town Called Solace
    By Mary Lawson

    Told through three distinct, compelling points of view, the novel cuts back and forth among these unforgettable characters to uncover the layers of grief, remorse, and love that connect them.

  • The Pregnant Widow
    By Martin Amis

    The Pregnant Widow is a comedy of manners and a nightmare, brilliant, haunting and gloriously risqué. It is Martin Amis at his fearless best.

  • A Journey: My Political Life
    By Tony Blair

    In 1997, the biggest Labour victory in history swept England, ending eighteen years of Conservative government. Prime Minister Tony Blair — young, charismatic and complex — shaped the nation profoundly in the ten years that followed.

  • Normal People: A Novel
    By Sally Rooney

    Normal People is a book that you will read in one sitting, and then immediately share with your friends.

  • Talking About Detective Fiction
    By P. D. James

    Here is the perfect marriage of writer and subject—essential reading for every lover of detective fiction.

  • Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game
    By Karl Ove Knausgaard, Fredrik Ekelund

    From the always astonishing Karl Ove Knausgaard--a brilliantly unusual book to delight both reading sports fans and the literary world. Bridging the two worlds of soccer and great writing, in...

  • The Man from Beijing
    By Henning Mankell

    Her search takes her from Sweden to Beijing and back, but Mankell's narrative also takes us 150 years into the past: to China and America when the hatred that fuelled the massacre was born, a hatred transformed and complicated over time and ...

  • The Forgotten Affairs of Youth: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (8)
    By Alexander McCall Smith

    The eighth delightful installment in the ongoing saga of the life and loves of Isabel Dalhousie.

  • The Convent
    By Panos Karnezis

    This is all to change, on the day that Mother Superior Maria Ines discovers a suitcase punctured with air-holes at the entrance to the retreat.

  • Silent House
    By Orhan Pamuk

    But it is Recep's cousin Hassan, a high school dropout, and fervent right-wing nationalist, who will draw the visiting family into the growing political cataclysm, in this spell-binding novel depicting Turkey's tumultuous century-long ...

  • C'mon Papa: Dispatches from a Dad in the Dark
    By Ryan Knighton

    But this is no pity party, and Ryan has no time for sentimentality. Tackling these hurdles with grace and humour, Ryan is determined to do his part - and this is where the fun starts.

  • Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
    By Bill McKibben

    We’ve created, in very short order, a new planet, still recognizable but fundamentally different. We may as well call it Eaarth. That new planet is filled with new binds and traps.