Books from Knopf Canada
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A Permanent Member of the Family: Selected Stories
By Russell BanksHenry Prize Stories. This collection of twelve short works showcases this master at the peak of his intuitive powers.
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The Sun Climbs Slow: Justice in the Age of Imperial America
By Erna ParisIn this groundbreaking work, Erna Paris, the award-winning author of Long Shadows, explores the history of global justice, the politics behind America's opposition to the creation of a permanent international criminal court and the ...
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Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History
By Edmund Metatawabin, Alexandra ShimoI can be the Ghost Walker.” Ghost Walkers could leave this world a little while to guide spirits along the Three Day Road, so they didn't grow confused or lost. “No,” Mama said. “No. That's not right. Rita was Christian.
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The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
By Philip PullmanThis is a story. In this ingenious and spellbinding retelling of the life of Jesus, Philip Pullman revisits the most influential story ever told.
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Frankissstein: A Love Story
By Jeanette WintersonIn fiercely intelligent prose, Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we are to that future than we realize. Funny and furious, bold and clear-sighted, Frankissstein is a love story about life itself.
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
By Jeanette WintersonWinterson asked her: Why be happy when you could be normal? This is Jeanette's story--acute, fierce, celebratory--of a life's work to find happiness: a search for belonging, love, identity, a home.
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The Pickton File
By Stevie CameronA woman who is considered by many to be this country's best investigative journalist, Cameron has been thinking about the missing women of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside since 1998, when the occasional newspaper story ran about families and ...
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In Flanders Fields: 100 Years: Writing on War, Loss and Remembrance
By Amanda BettsAmong the thirteen contributors: Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire (ret'd) writes about the emotional meaning of the poem for war veterans; Tim Cook describes the rich and varied life of McCrae; Frances Itani revisits her time in Flanders, ...
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Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas
By Karen Pinchin... ocean like a boulder falling from the sky . " Song for the Blue Ocean documents Safina's travels across the world studying bluefin but also Pacific salmon in the American Northwest and endangered reef fish in Palau and the Philippines ...
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The Certainties
By Aislinn HunterBy turns elegiac and heart-pounding, a love letter in the guise of a song of despair, The Certainties is a moving and transformative blend of historical and speculative fiction--a novel that shows us what it means to bear witness, and to ...
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
By David MitchellThe New York Times Book Review called him simply “a genius.” Now David Mitchell lends fresh credence to The Guardian’s claim that “each of his books seems entirely different from that which preceded it.” The Thousand Autumns of ...
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Joseph Anton: A Memoir
By Salman RushdieThis is a book of exceptional frankness and honesty, compelling, moving, provocative, not only captivating as a revelatory memoir but of vital importance in its political insight and wisdom.
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Brave Enough
By Cheryl StrayedForward is the direction of real life. Brave Enough gathers more than 100 of these “mini-instruction manuals for the soul,” urging us toward the incredible capacity for love, compassion, forgiveness, and endurance that is within us all.
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Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
By Kyo MaclearSuddenly Maclear becomes a detective in her own life, unravelling a family mystery piece by piece, and assembling the story of her biological father. Along the way, larger questions arise: what exactly is kinship?
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Literary Occasions: Essays
By Vidiadhar Surajprasad NaipaulA valuable companion to last year’s The Writer and the World, this is an essential volume from a man who has devoted his life to the written word. From the Hardcover edition.
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The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief
By V. S. NaipaulThe Masque of Africa is Nobel Prize-winning V. S. Naipaul's first major work of non-fiction to be published since his internationally bestselling Beyond Belief.
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Women Talking: A Novel
By Miriam ToewsA FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD: A transformative and necessary work--as completely unexpected as it is inspired--by the award-winning author of the bestselling novels All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness.
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Small Wars
By Sadie JonesBut Hal is pulled into atrocities that take him further from Clara, a betrayal that is only one part of a shocking personal crisis to come. Small Wars is a searing, unforgettable novel from a writer at the height of her powers.
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Mordecai: The Life & Times
By Charles Foran... Dispatches from the Sporting Life was slated for publication in late spring 2002 , but she wasn't sure about the proposed Selected Essays 1960-2000 . " Do you know if he had begun to select material ? " Another item was the novel . " Oh ...
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Forever Summer: A Cookbook
By Nigella LawsonForever Summer has the practical appeal of a cookbook as well as the aspirational lure of a travel book, the sort one might flick through longingly in winter, dreaming of much-needed sunshine.