Historical Fiction

People under pressure, history at close range.

The fiction shelf follows ordinary lives caught in machinery that calls itself necessary: quotas, files, passes, schools, borders, and neat handwriting with untidy consequences.

Book cover for The Earth Kept Their Names by Adler Tweed.

Historical Fiction · 412 pages · CAD $5.99 · Kindle Unlimited

The Earth Kept Their Names

A Novel of the Holodomor

A grave historical novel of Soviet Ukraine and the Holodomor, following a girl, a diary, a wooden bird, and the names a state tried to scrape out of the record.

When the ledger lies, memory becomes contraband.

Book cover for Without Incident by Adler Tweed.

Historical Fiction · 365 pages · CAD $5.99 · Kindle Unlimited

Without Incident

A Clerk’s Private Record of the Riverbend

A Canadian historical novel about a Dominion clerk whose neat records turn survey lines, rations, passes, and school lists into quiet instruments of harm.

Some disasters arrive with tidy handwriting.

Proofs of Empire

The alternate-history wing of the Adler Tweed catalogue begins with The War That Took Canada: The First Proof, now available on Amazon.com and Kindle Unlimited. It is a five-volume project about military preparation, conquest, occupation, rebellion, and the paper trails nations use to call violence orderly.