For twenty-five years, Random House Canada has been publishing the finest books by Canadian and international writers, be they new voices or beloved greats. Nonfiction or fiction, these books encompass a dazzling range of prize winners and bestsellers that have delighted, surprised and inspired Canadians, changing the way we think about the most important issues of our time.
Leading the way on our nonfiction list are recent books like National Business Book Award-winner
Why Your World Is About to Get A Whole Lot Smaller by
Jeff Rubin and multiple award-winner
The Boy in the Moon by
Ian Brown.
I Shall Not Hate by
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish and
Switch by
Chip Heath and
Dan Heath bring compelling international perspectives to Canadian readers. And muckraking greats like
Peter C. Newman's
The Secret Mulroney Tapes and
The Armageddon Factor by
Marci McDonald continue a tradition of sharp, literate and newsworthy nonfiction publishing that has produced seminal works by
LGen. Roméo Dallaire,
Irshad Manji,
Jane Jacobs,
Gwynne Dyer,
J.B. MacKinnon and
Alisa Smith, and many more.
In 2009, Random House Canada's vaunted fiction program welcomed its first Scotiabank Giller Prize, won by
Linden MacIntyre's
The Bishop's Man. Also nominated was runaway bestseller
The Golden Mean by
Annabel Lyon, which won the Writers' Trust Roger Fiction Award. Straddling the line between literary accomplishment and commercial appeal has become a house specialty, and succeeding brilliantly have been recent bestsellers and award nominees by
Douglas Coupland,
Alissa York,
Andrew Davidson and
Robert J. Wiersema.
We have our most fun in the dark, reading popular horror by
Kelley Armstrong, the John Cardinal detective stories of
Giles Blunt or the true-crime stories of
Alex Caine. Our health and lifestyle list has expanded in recent years, developing franchises from
Natasha Turner's Hormone Diet and
Rick Gallop's GI Diet, as well as the
Smart Cookies guides to personal finance. We've published bestselling memoirs and reflections by great Canadians
Bret Hart,
Walter Gretzky and
Peter Mansbridge. Long an RHC indulgence is Canada's most prestigious cookbook program, with timely and timeless favourites from
Bonnie Stern,
Lucy Waverman,
Jeff Crump,
Regan Daley,
Jeffrey Alford and
Naomi Duguid, and
Brenda Bradshaw.
Controversial stories and big ideas, cold cases and hot topics, Random House Canada publishes the books that Canadians want to read.
