Knopf Canada: 73 books
Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter
Growing Up with a Gay Dad
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
NATIONAL BESTSELLER (The Globe and Mail)
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Finalist for the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction [2014]
Longlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize [2014]
A moving memoir about growing up with a gay father in the 1980s, and a tribute to the power of truth, humour, acceptance and familial...
Mordecai
The Life & Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Foran's book is IT: the definitive, detailed, intimate portrait of Mordecai Richler, the lion of Canadian literature, and the turbulent, changing times that nurtured him. It is also an extraordinary love story that lasted half a century.
The first major biography with access to family letters...
by Don Coles
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
Doctor Bloom’s Story, a wry and subtle novel, is a Knopf Canada New Face of Fiction selection for 2004 and already a popular and critical favourite. What starts off sounding like a charming, bittersweet memoir develops rapidly into a complex and moving book centred on a pressing moral dilemma.
In...
Navigating a New World
Canada's Global Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
In Navigating a New World Lloyd Axworthy charts how we can become active citizens in the demanding world of the twenty-first century, to make it safer, more sustainable and more humane. Throughout he emphasizes the human story. As we meet refugees from civil war and drought, child soldiers and landmine...
by Jean Chretien
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
My Years as Prime Minister is Jean Chrétien’s own story, told with insight and humour, of his ten years at 24 Sussex Drive as Canada’s twentieth prime minister.
By the time he left office, Jean Chrétien had been in politics for forty years – and his experience is evident on every page...
Stupid to the Last Drop
How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care)
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
A bestselling investigative journalist takes a tour of the Alberta oil and gas industry, revealing how Canada’s richest province is squandering our chance for a sustainable future.
In its desperate search for oil and gas riches, Alberta is destroying itself. As the world teeters on the edge...
The Way It Looks from Here
Contemporary Canadian Writing on Sports
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2010
In the first ever anthology of its kind, Canada’s premier sportswriter — Globe and Mail columnist and author of the internationally acclaimed bestseller Facing Ali — brings together the best writing on sport in this country, with a strong contemporary flavour.
It’s all here: classic...
For Honour's Sake
The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
In the tradition of Margaret MacMillan’s Paris 1919 comes a new consideration of Canada’s most famous war and the Treaty of Ghent that unsatisfactorily concluded it, from one of this country’s premier military historians.
In the Canadian imagination, the War of 1812 looms large. It was...
Falling Backwards: A Memoir
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Jann Arden is funny. And sincere. She has legions of devoted fans. And a radio show. She is a darling of the music scene - always candid, always unplugged. You thought you knew Jann Arden, but there is more - to her readers' delight, in Falling Backwards Jann reveals her childhood, her bond with family,...
Half Spent Was the Night
A Witches' Yuletide
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Beloved author Ami McKay is back, bringing us a magical follow-up in the tradition of Victorian winter tales to her mesmerizing bestseller, The Witches of New York.
During the nights between Christmas and New Year's, the witches of New York--Adelaide Thom, Eleanor St. Clair and the youngest,...
Fools Rule
Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
This eloquent, rage-inciting polemic about the global failure to deal with climate change will appeal to readers of Tim Flannery, George Monbiot and Bill McKibben - and anyone concerned with the economic and environmental future of our planet.
Kyoto, 1997. Montreal, 2005. Copenhagen, 2009....
by Stevie Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Stevie Cameron turns her renowned analytical eye from the "crooks in suits" of her previous books to the case of Vancouver's missing women and the man who has been charged with killing 27 of them, who if convicted will have the horrific distinction of being the worst serial killer in Canadian...
A Measure of Light
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
With Beth Powning’s trademark elegance and insight into the hearts and minds of unforgettable women, A Measure of Light brings to life an extraordinary historical figure.
Mary Dyer is a seventeenth-century Puritan who flees persecution in England, only to find the colony of Massachusetts...
by Joan Clark
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
From the bestselling author of Latitudes of Melt and An Audience of Chairs: The Birthday Lunch is the story of one pivotal week in the life of a family facing a tragic loss, rich with dramatic tension and beautifully rendered.
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Free-spirited Lily has always played the peacemaker between her...