Fall Line-up for Five Rivers

We’ve released three terrific titles this summer: The Organic Home Garden, by Patrick Lima and John Scanlan; Crystal Death, by Nate Hendley; and Stonehouse Cooks, by Lorina Stephens. This fall we’ll follow those successes with two more great releases: Dutch Schultz: the brazen beer baron of New York, by Nate Hendley; and North by 2000+, by H.A. Hargreaves. Dutch Schultz is a revised and fast-paced version of Nate’s original book about this colourful and psychotic Depression…

Unpublished Hargreaves Collection to be Released by Five Rivers

Growing up Bronx: A Memoir of my Shapers and Shakers, by H.A. Hargreaves, is a tender, insightful memoir in ten short stories. Two stories of the collection, Requiem for a Bookman, and The Seer of Nanny Goat Hill, both aired on Alberta Anthology, CBCFM in the early 1980s. Today, Five Rivers is thrilled to announce we’ll be releasing Growing up Bronx early in 2013. As Hargreaves indicates in the sub-title, the collection is a tribute…

H.A. Hargreaves Work to be Published by Five Rivers

H.A. Hargreaves is one of Canada’s remarkable, one might even say legendary, speculative fiction writers. He is a retired professor of English, formerly at the University of Alberta (Edmonton), and was twice nominated (1982 and 1983) for the Lifetime Contributions category in the Prix Auroras. His collection of short stories, North by 2000, in its time received wide critical acclaim from both peers and periodicals. Today Five Rivers is pleased to announce the rebirth of…