Interview with the Five Directions Press author and co-founder C. P. Lesley.

Monthly picks for good reading: Jen Beagin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Agatha Frost, and Kayte Nunn

Interview with Jacqueline Church Simonds, author of Captain Mary, Buccaneer; and the Heirs to Camelot series.

Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna (HarperCollins, 2009) An uneasy task, mixing the fictional with the historical, but Kingsolver succeeds in relating the fictiv...

Oh, we love our pets at Five Directions Press. We love them so much that we wrote our hearts outs describing them, and now have to share the resulting “dish”...

And let’s not forget our own C. P. Lesley’s Song of the Shaman, released January 14, 2020. Find out more about the second in her Songs of Steppe & Forest ser...

Lynn C. Miller is a writer, a playwright, a performer, an instructor, the cofounder of a magazine, and so much more. Her life in the performing and literary ...

Christopher Brown, Rule of Capture (Harper Voyager, 2019) Donny Kimoe, a wisecracking lawyer who used to work for the prosecution and has kept his security c...

Oh, we love our pets at Five Directions Press. We love them so much that we wrote our hearts out describing them, and now have to share the resulting “dish” ...

Here are three novels we particularly enjoyed this month. But don’t stop there. We also published two new books of our own this fall, so in addition to Joan...

As much as I love historical fiction—especially historical fiction set in Russia and Eastern Europe (assuming the authors know what they’re talking about, th...

And while you’re browsing all these wonderful books, don’t miss our latest release: Joan Schweighardt’s Gifts for the Dead, book 2 in her Rivers trilogy. Fi...

According to online urban dictionaries, BFF has a variety of possible meanings, at least one of which is vulgar. Rest assured; here at Five Directions, where...

Angie Cruz, Dominicana (Flatiron Books, 2019) Police raids on a factory to round up undocumented immigrants; a brown-skinned immigrant arrested after being t...

It’s my great pleasure to interview Joy Castro for this Spotlight feature. With her permission I’d like to introduce her with her recent (and very attention-...

Anna Burns, Milkman (Faber and Faber, 2018) “The day Somebody McSomebody put a gun to my breast and called me a cat and threatened to shoot me was the same d...

“Anything worth doing is worth overdoing,” Mick Jagger has said. And we agree. To a point. Regarding some things. C. P. Lesley: Indulgences. Well, there’s ch...

Kate Braithwaite, The Girl Puzzle (Crooked Cat Books, 2019) In 1887 Elizabeth Cochrane—a young reporter from Pittsburgh desperate to land a job at New York C...

With this post, Five Directions Press author Joan Schweighardt—the author of The Last Wife of Attila the Hun and Before We Died, among other novels—is revivi...

Ana Johns, The Woman in the White Kimono (Park Row Books, 2019) Naoko Nakamura is only seventeen when she falls madly in love with an American navy man. It’s...