An Amazing Collection How would you like to own, at an incredible bargain, ten books that readers like yourself have already voted to be the best examples of speculative fiction published in Canada? Well, here’s your chance. The Aurora Award Bundle contains winners and finalists for Canada’s premier speculative fiction award, the Aurora Award. Our curator, Douglas Smith, has won the Aurora three times and been on the final ballot another sixteen. One of his…
Welcome to Five Rivers Publishing’s new website! We’ve worked very hard to make our new website more functional, visually pleasing, and extremely mobile friendly. You’ll find all our books here, but now each book has its own page, as does each author. That will make it easier for you to share your favourite books and authors with your friends and colleagues. And we’ve simplified our shopping cart to make it easier for you to purchase…
Hello, readers! Welcome to the weekend! At Five Rivers, we always celebrate the short moments in which you can enjoy a pocket book (or an e-book, you tech-savvy, you). And the weekends are just the right time to commit to a book whether you want to go on whole-day marathon, or reserve the lucky tome for your night-time quiet-time. We want to fix you up with the perfect book you would be happy to spend…
Web Banner from freedomtoread.ca. // Barbara Klunder (illustration), Reva Pomer (design), Webcom (printing) Another day in Freedom to Read week where we get to encourage people to read what they want by having someone tell you not to. Yes. That’s our angle. Dear Five Rivers Publishing, I really must protest. I have spent many years trying to get my children to conform to society. Excessive imagination and self-reliance are not things that will help my…
Web Banner from freedomtoread.ca. // Barbara Klunder (illustration), Reva Pomer (design), Webcom (printing) Another day in Freedom to Read week. What have you been reading? If you need some motivation, we have another concerned letter that you have to read! The writer worries about highly impressionable teens, damn cool pirates and rustlers, and some bad hygiene from church men. Dear Five Rivers: My fourteen-year-old son is not much of a reader, so I was very…