Books from Knopf Canada
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The Dog Who Came in from the Cold: A Corduroy Mansions Novel (2)
By Alexander McCall SmithThe heartwarming and hilarious second installment in the Corduroy Mansions series presents the further adventures of Alexander McCall Smith's newest, already-beloved character: the Pimlico Terrier Freddie de la Hay.
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Corduroy Mansions: A Novel
By Alexander McCall SmithCorduroy Matters THE FLAT occ UPI E o by William and Eddie was on the top Floor of the four-storey building in Pinilico known as Corduroy Mansions. It was not a typical London mansion block. The name had been coined— in jest, ...
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A Conspiracy of Friends: A Corduroy Mansions Novel (3)
By Alexander McCall SmithAlexander McCall Smith returns to Corduroy Mansions, the slightly dilapidated but beloved mansion block in London's hip Pimlico neighbourhood, for this 3rd instalment in his popular series.
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A Treacherous Paradise
By Henning MankellFrom the internationally acclaimed author of the Wallander crime series, a dramatic new standalone novel set in turn-of-the-century Sweden and Mozambique, whose indomitable female protagonist is awoken from naiveté by her exposure to ...
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The Morning Star
By Karl Ove KnausgaardA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR "Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive.” —Dwight Garner, New York Times A major new work from the author of the renowned My Struggle series, The Morning Star is an ...
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Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age
By Modris EksteinsIn Solar Dance, acclaimed writer and scholar Modris Eksteins uses Vincent van Gogh as his lens for this brilliant survey of Western culture and politics in the last century.
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Two Pints: A Collection
By Roddy DoyleThis book shares the concision of a collection of poems, and the timing of a virtuoso comedian.
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The Miracle at Speedy Motors: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (9)
By Alexander McCall SmithIn the ninth installment of this infinitely enjoyable and bestselling series, Precious Ramotswe is doing what she does best–solving crimes and taking care of business: her own and everybody else’s.
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The White Road: Journey into an Obsession
By Edmund de WaalIn The White Road, bestselling author and artist Edmund de Waal gives us an intimate narrative history of his lifelong obsession with porcelain, or "white gold.
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The Frumkiss Family Business
By Michael WexHis books include the New York Times bestseller Born to K1/etch and its follow-up, just Say Nu, and the more recent How to Be a Mentsh (And Not a Shmuck). He was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, and now lives in Toronto.
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Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
By Wade DavisIn a monumental work of history and adventure, ten years in the writing, Wade Davis asks not whether George Mallory was the first to reach the summit of Everest, but rather why he kept on climbing on that fateful day.
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The Spawning Grounds
By Gail Anderson-DargatzThe novel hovers beautifully in the fluid boundary between past and present, between the ordinary world and the world of the spirit, all disordered by the human and environmental crises that have knit the white and Native worlds together in ...
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Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World
By Doug SaundersThe arrival city is often barely urban, in form or culture, but it should not be mistaken for a rural place. Urbanites tend to see the arrival city as a simple reproduction, within the city, of the structures and folkways of the village ...
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Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
By Drew Hayden TaylorA story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons.
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The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World
By Sarah WeinmanBy diving deeper in the publication history of Lolita and restoring Sally to her rightful place in the lore of the novel's creation, The Real Lolita casts a new light on the dark inspiration for a modern classic.
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Hallucinations
By Oliver SacksDrawing on a wealth of clinical examples from his own patients as well as historical and literary descriptions, Oliver Sacks investigates the fundamental differences and similarities of these many sorts of hallucinations, what they say ...
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Hamnet and Judith: A novel
By Maggie O'FarrellWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[An] exceptional winner.
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Blood and Daring: How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation
By John BoykoExamines Canadian participation in the American Civil War, argues that the confederation of Canada occurred when it did because of the pressures of the war, and shows how the political climate of the time unified Canada.
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Son of a Trickster
By Eden RobinsonEveryday teen existence meets indigenous beliefs, crazy family dynamics, and cannibalistic river otters . . . The exciting first novel in her trickster trilogy.
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The Book of Lists: Revised and Updated and Even More Canadian
By Ira Basen, Jane FarrowA revised, updated and even more Canadian edition of the classic bestseller. In 1977, The Book of Lists, the first and best compendium of facts weirder than fiction, was published....