Knopf Canada: 73 books
Maximum Canada
Toward a Country of 100 Million
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
To face the future, Canada needs more Canadians. But why and how many?
Canada’s population has always grown slowly, when it has grown at all. That wasn’t by accident. For centuries before Confederation and a century after, colonial economic policies and an inward-facing world view isolated...
Blood and Daring
How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Blood and Daring will change our views not just of Canada's relationship with the United States, but of the Civil War, Confederation and Canada itself.
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In Blood and Daring, lauded historian John Boyko makes a compelling argument that Confederation occurred when and as it did largely because...
Cold Fire
Kennedy's Northern Front
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Forget all you think you know about the Kennedy years. With narrative flair and sparkling storytelling, acclaimed historian John Boyko explores the crucial period when America and its allies were fighting the Cold War's most treacherous battles, Canadians were trading sovereignty for security, and...
Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders
The True Story of Newfoundland's Confederation with Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
The true story, drawn from official documents and hours of personal interviews, of how Newfoundland and Labrador joined Confederation and became Canada's tenth province in 1949. A rich cast of characters--hailing from Britain, America, Canada and Newfoundland--battle it out for the prize of the resource-rich,...
This Crazy Time
Living Our Environmental Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
From one of the world's most controversial campaigners, This Crazy Time is the No Logo of the NEW environmental movement, an essential must-read that combines Bill Bryson's personable style and humour with Naomi Klein's hard-hitting activism and research.
Passionate, profound, inspiring and...
by Anosh Irani
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Finalist for the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and for the Governor General's Literary Award, this powerful new work, about a transgender sex worker in the red-light district of Bombay who is given an unexpected task, is a gripping literary page-turner--difficult and moving, surprising and tender....
by Cynthia Holz
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Cynthia Holz's first novel with Knopf Canada is a spellbinding story that offers an intimate look at family, friendship and altruism, and unrolls a cast of characters you can't help but root for even as you question some of the things they do.
Dr. Ben Wasserman, an organ transplant psychiatrist,...
The Morning After
The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
A sly, insightful and wonderfully original book from one of Canada's most popular political analysts, Chantal Hébert, and one of Quebec's top political broadcasters, Jean Lapierre.
Only the most fearless of political journalists would dare to open the old wounds of the 1995 Quebec...
by Anne Murray, Michael Posner
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
In this revealing autobiography, Canada’s first lady of song, for the first time, tells the whole story of her astonishing 40-year career in show biz. It is a candid retrospective of the extraordinary success achieved, and the prices that had to be paid.
“After ‘Snowbird’ hit, I was...
Up Ghost River
A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
A powerful, raw yet eloquent memoir from a residential school survivor and former First Nations Chief, Up Ghost River is a necessary step toward our collective healing.
In the 1950s, 7-year-old Edmund Metatawabin was separated from his family and placed in one of Canada’s worst residential schools....
Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark
The West Versus the Rest Since Confederation
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The oil sands. Global warming. The National Energy Program. Though these seem like modern Canadian subjects, author Mary Janigan reveals them to be a legacy of longstanding regional rivalry. Something of a "Third Solitude" since entering Confederation, the West has long been overshadowed by Canada's...
Just Watch Me
The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called “the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written” — sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.
His...
In Flanders Fields: 100 Years
Writing on War, Loss and Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
A beautifully designed collection of essays on war, loss and remembrance to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the writing of Canada's most famous poem.
In early 1915, the death of a young friend on the battlefields of Ypres inspired Canadian soldier, field surgeon and poet John McCrae to write...
On the Farm
Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Now that the publication bans are lifted, you need Stevie Cameron to get the whole story, which includes accounts of Pickton's notoriety that police never uncovered. You need On the Farm.
Covering the case of one of North America's most prolific serial killer gave Stevie Cameron access not...