Knopf Canada imprint: 35 books

by Robert McGill
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013

A richly textured novel of idealism and romance, Once We Had a Country re-imagines the impact of the Vietnam War by way of the women and children who fled with the draft dodgers. It's the summer of 1972. Maggie, a young schoolteacher, leaves the United States to settle with her boyfriend, Fletcher,...

Captivity

118 Days in Iraq and the Struggle for a World Without War

by James Loney
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011

The powerful account of the remarkable peace activist kidnapped while leading a peace delegation and held for ransom by Iraqi insurgents until his paradoxical release by a crack unit of special forces commandos. In November 2005, James Loney and three other men — Canadian Harmeet Singh Sooden,...
by Drew Hayden Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010

A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons. Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie,...
by Rudy Wiebe
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014

From a 2-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, an intense novel of loss, memory and the limitless nature of family love. Hal Wiens, a retired professor, is mourning the sudden death of his loving wife, Yo. To get through each day, he relies on the bare comfort of routine and regular...

White as Milk, Red as Blood

The Forgotten Fairy Tales of Franz Xaver von Schönwerth

by Franz Xaver von Schonwerth
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018

This striking, richly illustrated edition of long-lost German fairy tales is not a book for children. It is a book for adults. Or for adults to frighten children into behaving...whichever you prefer. In 2009, a trove of lost fairy tales collected by Franz Xaver von Schönwerth--a 19th-century...
by Holley Rubinsky
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010

Maclean's Editors' Pick: Best Books for Summer Reading From the Journey Prize winner Holley Rubinsky comes a collection of linked stories that paints no-nonsense characters with a heartfelt hand. Rubinsky unearths the compulsions that rile ordinary lives, and the dreams and grave losses that...
by Kerri Sakamoto
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018

Citizen Kane reimagined, a novel about ambition and the relentless desire to belong, from the author of the Commonwealth Prize-winning and Governor General's Literary Award-nominated The Electrical Field. Frankie Hanesaka isn't afraid of a little hard work. An industrious boy, if haunted by...
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