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The Cellist of Sarajevo
Knopf Canada 2009; US$ 21.00This brilliant novel with universal resonance tells the story of three people trying to survive in a city rife with the extreme fear of desperate times, and of the sorrowing cellist who plays undaunted in their midst. One day a shell lands in a bread line and kills twenty-two people as the cellist watches from a window in his flat. He vows to sit... more...
Come, Thou Tortoise
Knopf Canada 2010; US$ 19.95A delightfully offbeat story that features an opinionated tortoise and an IQ-challenged narrator who find themselves in the middle of a life-changing mystery. Audrey (a.k.a. Oddly) Flowers is living quietly in Oregon with Winnifred, her tortoise, when she finds out her dear father has been knocked into a coma back in Newfoundland. Despite her fear... more...
Trains and Lovers
Knopf Canada 2013; US$ 29.95A wonderful new stand-alone novel from the internationally beloved and bestselling Alexander McCall Smith: a story that explores the nature of love--and trains--through a series of intertwined romantic tales. The rocking of the train car, the sound of its wheels on the rails...there's something special about this form of travel that makes for easy... more...
Americanah
Knopf Canada 2013; US$ 29.95A searing new novel, at once sweeping and intimate, by the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun : a story of love and race centered around a man and woman from Nigeria who seemed destined to be together--until the choices they are forced to make tear them apart. Ifemelu--beautiful, self-assured--left Nigeria 15 years ago, and now studies... more...
Blood and Daring
Knopf Canada 2013; US$ 35.00Blood 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. In Blood and Daring , lauded historian John Boyko makes a compelling argument that Confederation occurred when and as it did largely because of the pressures of the Civil War. Many readers will... more...
A Hologram for the King
Knopf Canada 2013; US$ 21.00A National Book Award Finalist, a New York Times bestseller and one of the most highly-acclaimed books of the year, A Hologram for the King is a sprawling novel about the decline of American industry from one of the most important, socially-aware novelists of our time. In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America,... more...
Being Generous
Knopf Canada 2009; US$ 13.95This extraordinary little book has the power to heal and foster relationships, console and empower individuals, create community and help save the world by providing a spiritual ecology for our daily lives. Think that?s a bold claim? It is, but it?s also true. We can all be generous with our money when an occasion like Christmas rolls around, or when... more...
You Better Watch Out
Knopf Canada 2010; US$ 18.00?It is, I contend, no small achievement to survive the perfect family.? So Greg Malone says at the beginning of a graceful, generous and sometimes hilarious memoir of his childhood in the St. John?s of the 1950s and 60s. A memoir from one of Canada?s comic geniuses that is as moving as it is funny, about a young boy who survives, among other things,... more...
Just Watch Me
Knopf Canada 2009; US$ 21.95This 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 life is one of Canada?s most engrossing stories. John English... more...
The As It Happens Files
Knopf Canada 2009; US$ 18.00In the tradition of Peter Gzowski?s The Morningside Papers comes a book that celebrates the great stories and personalities behind As It Happen s. For eight years, Mary Lou Finlay had the pleasure of being the co-host of one of CBC Radio?s most enduring institutions. On any given day she and Barbara Budd interviewed people on subjects varying from... more...









