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Adler Tweed writes civic nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, historical fiction, and alternate-history fiction about power, memory, maps, institutions, ordinary people, and the records societies leave behind.
Civics, Long Point, Holodomor fiction, and official paperwork with teeth.
Alternate historyThe War of 1812 goes differently, and the continent keeps paying the invoice.
EssaysHistory, civic literacy, public memory, and the longer machinery of politics.
AuthorNo face on the dust jacket doing jazz hands. The books can carry the lantern.
A compact sales shelf, no maze, no carnival tent. The covers keep their real book shape.
Civic nonfiction
A Plain-English Guide to How Canadian Government Actually Works
A plain-English civic map for readers trying to understand which Canadian government does what, from Parliament and provinces to courts, rights, taxes, and city hall.
Narrative nonfiction
A Long Point Narrative
Long Point speaks through water, shoal, fog, wreckage, birds, maps, masts, memory, and the human habit of mistaking lines for certainty.
Historical fiction
A Novel of the Holodomor
A historical novel of Soviet Ukraine and the Holodomor, following a girl, a diary, a wooden bird, and the names a state tried to erase.
Historical fiction
A Clerk’s Private Record of the Riverbend School List, 1889–1912
A quiet historical-fiction lane for readers who like consequence, pressure, public records, and the moral violence of official paperwork.