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The Witness Tree
Hardcover | 464 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Suspense
978-0-679-31081-5 (0-679-31081-9)
October 9, 2007 | $34.95
A political epic based on the early life of Eleanor Dulles-sister of John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State, and Allen Dulles, the first head of the CIA-and the secret beginnings of modern Israel.
The Witness Tree interweaves years of classified research by co-author and Nazi war crimes investigator John Loftus with a...
Hardcover | 464 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Suspense
978-0-679-31081-5 (0-679-31081-9)
October 9, 2007 | $34.95
A political epic based on the early life of Eleanor Dulles-sister of John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State, and Allen Dulles, the first head of the CIA-and the secret beginnings of modern Israel.
The Witness Tree interweaves years of classified research by co-author and Nazi war crimes investigator John Loftus with a...
Fire in the Blood
Hardcover | 160 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97980-0 (0-676-97980-7)
September 25, 2007 | $29.95
A new treasure unearthed by Némirovsky’s biographers: another never-before-published novel from the author of the #1 bestselling Suite Française.
This perfect gem of a novel was discovered only recently in separate archive files. A few pages were in the famous suitcase that Irène Némirovsky’s daughters saved, but the balance had been deposited...
Hardcover | 160 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97980-0 (0-676-97980-7)
September 25, 2007 | $29.95
A new treasure unearthed by Némirovsky’s biographers: another never-before-published novel from the author of the #1 bestselling Suite Française.
This perfect gem of a novel was discovered only recently in separate archive files. A few pages were in the famous suitcase that Irène Némirovsky’s daughters saved, but the balance had been deposited...
The Gum Thief
Hardcover | 288 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35628-4 (0-307-35628-0)
September 25, 2007 | $32.00
The first and only story of love and looming apocalypse set in the aisles of an office supply superstore.
In Douglas Coupland’s ingenious new novel-sort of a Clerks-meets-Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf-we meet Roger, a divorced, middle-aged “aisles associate” at a Staples outlet, condemned to restocking reams of twenty-lb. bond paper for...
Hardcover | 288 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35628-4 (0-307-35628-0)
September 25, 2007 | $32.00
The first and only story of love and looming apocalypse set in the aisles of an office supply superstore.
In Douglas Coupland’s ingenious new novel-sort of a Clerks-meets-Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf-we meet Roger, a divorced, middle-aged “aisles associate” at a Staples outlet, condemned to restocking reams of twenty-lb. bond paper for...
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The Man Who Smiled
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-676-97961-9 (0-676-97961-0)
September 25, 2007 | $21.00
In this riveting Henning Mankell thriller, a disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander finds himself in a deep personal and professional crisis after killing a man in the line of duty. After almost a year of sick leave, he hits rock bottom and resolves to quit the police force for good. Against his...
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-676-97961-9 (0-676-97961-0)
September 25, 2007 | $21.00
In this riveting Henning Mankell thriller, a disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander finds himself in a deep personal and professional crisis after killing a man in the line of duty. After almost a year of sick leave, he hits rock bottom and resolves to quit the police force for good. Against his...
A Taste for Death
Paperback | 784 pages | Seal Books | Fiction
978-1-4000-2510-7 (1-4000-2510-9)
September 25, 2007 | $11.99
Two men lie dead in the vestry of a London church, their throats cut with brutal precision. One is Sir Paul Berowne, rich, cultivated and elegant; the other is an alcoholic vagrant. Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Adam Dalgliesh explores the sinister web...
Paperback | 784 pages | Seal Books | Fiction
978-1-4000-2510-7 (1-4000-2510-9)
September 25, 2007 | $11.99
Two men lie dead in the vestry of a London church, their throats cut with brutal precision. One is Sir Paul Berowne, rich, cultivated and elegant; the other is an alcoholic vagrant. Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Adam Dalgliesh explores the sinister web...
The Thirteenth Tale
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-385-66285-7 (0-385-66285-8)
September 25, 2007 | $22.00
Biographer Margaret Lea returns one night to her apartment above her father's antiquarian bookshop. On her steps she finds a letter. It is a hand-written request from one of Britain’s most prolific and well-loved novelists. Vida Winter, gravely ill, wants to recount her life story before it is too late, and...
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-385-66285-7 (0-385-66285-8)
September 25, 2007 | $22.00
Biographer Margaret Lea returns one night to her apartment above her father's antiquarian bookshop. On her steps she finds a letter. It is a hand-written request from one of Britain’s most prolific and well-loved novelists. Vida Winter, gravely ill, wants to recount her life story before it is too late, and...
Also available as a
hardcover.
Other Colors
Hardcover | 448 pages | Knopf Canada | Literary Collections
978-0-676-97970-1 (0-676-97970-X)
September 18, 2007 | $34.95
Knopf Canada is proud to welcome Orhan Pamuk to the list with an inspiring and engaging collection of essays on literary and personal subjects-his first new book since winning the Nobel Prize.
In the three decades that Pamuk has devoted to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving and...
Hardcover | 448 pages | Knopf Canada | Literary Collections
978-0-676-97970-1 (0-676-97970-X)
September 18, 2007 | $34.95
Knopf Canada is proud to welcome Orhan Pamuk to the list with an inspiring and engaging collection of essays on literary and personal subjects-his first new book since winning the Nobel Prize.
In the three decades that Pamuk has devoted to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving and...
The Culprits
Hardcover | 320 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35564-5 (0-307-35564-0)
September 11, 2007 | $34.95
Hank Wallins is a broken man working the night shift in a meaningless job. Tormented by the tinnitus constantly ringing in his ears, he sleepwalks through life, too scarred by a tragic love affair to try again. When a madman pushes him into the path of an oncoming subway train, this...
Hardcover | 320 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35564-5 (0-307-35564-0)
September 11, 2007 | $34.95
Hank Wallins is a broken man working the night shift in a meaningless job. Tormented by the tinnitus constantly ringing in his ears, he sleepwalks through life, too scarred by a tragic love affair to try again. When a madman pushes him into the path of an oncoming subway train, this...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Moral Disorder
Paperback | 304 pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-1-4000-2504-6 (1-4000-2504-4)
September 11, 2007 | $11.99
Atwood triumphs with these dazzling, personal stories in her first collection since Wilderness Tips.
In these ten interrelated stories Atwood traces the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with it, while evoking the drama and the humour that colour common experiences — the birth of a baby, divorce and...
Paperback | 304 pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-1-4000-2504-6 (1-4000-2504-4)
September 11, 2007 | $11.99
Atwood triumphs with these dazzling, personal stories in her first collection since Wilderness Tips.
In these ten interrelated stories Atwood traces the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with it, while evoking the drama and the humour that colour common experiences — the birth of a baby, divorce and...
Also available as a
hardcover.
One Good Turn
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-385-66261-1 (0-385-66261-0)
September 11, 2007 | $21.00
Case Histories, once again featuring ex-cop turned private investigator Jackson Brodie.
It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until...
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-385-66261-1 (0-385-66261-0)
September 11, 2007 | $21.00
Case Histories, once again featuring ex-cop turned private investigator Jackson Brodie.
It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until...
Also available as a
hardcover.
Tomorrow
Hardcover | 272 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35590-4 (0-307-35590-X)
September 11, 2007 | $32.95
From Graham Swift, Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders, comes a masterful and compassionate novel of rare emotional power and narrative skill.
On a midsummer’s night, Paula lies awake beside her sleeping husband. She and Mike have been married for twenty-five years, a good marriage; they have two teenage children, Nick and...
Hardcover | 272 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35590-4 (0-307-35590-X)
September 11, 2007 | $32.95
From Graham Swift, Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders, comes a masterful and compassionate novel of rare emotional power and narrative skill.
On a midsummer’s night, Paula lies awake beside her sleeping husband. She and Mike have been married for twenty-five years, a good marriage; they have two teenage children, Nick and...
Half of a Yellow Sun
Trade Paperback | 560 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-676-97813-1 (0-676-97813-4)
September 4, 2007 | $21.00
With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughter” of Chinua Achebe. Now, in her masterly, haunting new novel, she recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in...
Trade Paperback | 560 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-676-97813-1 (0-676-97813-4)
September 4, 2007 | $21.00
With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughter” of Chinua Achebe. Now, in her masterly, haunting new novel, she recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in...
Also available as a
hardcover.
Turtle Valley
Hardcover | 304 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97885-8 (0-676-97885-1)
September 4, 2007 | $32.00
My memories are so like that hat full of butterflies, some already deteriorating the moment they are collected, some breathed back to life now and again, for a brief moment, by the scent on a passing wind-the smell of an orange, perhaps, or a whiff of brown-sugar fudge-before drifting away, just...
Hardcover | 304 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97885-8 (0-676-97885-1)
September 4, 2007 | $32.00
My memories are so like that hat full of butterflies, some already deteriorating the moment they are collected, some breathed back to life now and again, for a brief moment, by the scent on a passing wind-the smell of an orange, perhaps, or a whiff of brown-sugar fudge-before drifting away, just...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Conceit
Hardcover | 416 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66205-5 (0-385-66205-X)
August 28, 2007 | $29.95
“St Paul’s cathedral stands like a cornered beast on Ludgate hill, taking deep breaths above the smoke. The fire has made terrifying progress in the night and is closing in on the ancient monument from three directions. Built of massive stones, the cathedral is held to be invincible, but suddenly Pegge...
Hardcover | 416 pages | Doubleday Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66205-5 (0-385-66205-X)
August 28, 2007 | $29.95
“St Paul’s cathedral stands like a cornered beast on Ludgate hill, taking deep breaths above the smoke. The fire has made terrifying progress in the night and is closing in on the ancient monument from three directions. Built of massive stones, the cathedral is held to be invincible, but suddenly Pegge...
Digging to America
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66290-1 (0-385-66290-4)
August 28, 2007 | $21.00
Anne Tyler’s richest, most deeply searching novel-a story about what it is to be an American, and about Iranian-born Maryam Yazdan, who, after 35 years in this country, must finally come to terms with her “outsiderness.”
Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport...
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Anchor Canada | Fiction
978-0-385-66290-1 (0-385-66290-4)
August 28, 2007 | $21.00
Anne Tyler’s richest, most deeply searching novel-a story about what it is to be an American, and about Iranian-born Maryam Yazdan, who, after 35 years in this country, must finally come to terms with her “outsiderness.”
Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport...
Also available as a
hardcover.
