A little clarity.
A little strangeness.

Alderwake Press publishes practical nonfiction and literary, speculative fiction. One part of our catalogue offers ways through complicated everyday decisions. The other follows people into unfamiliar places and uncertain worlds.

Across both, we are interested in how people navigate the systems around them: what they can know, what they can change, and what it takes to make a life within them.

Two expressions of Alderwake

Practical Systems brings together books on independent living, household resilience, consumer decisions, and care. Literary & Speculative Fiction makes room for mystery, ecological change, memory, intimacy, and the quietly uncanny.

Neither is an afterthought. Both belong here.

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• Practical Systems: books on money, safety, care and household decisions.
• Literary & Speculative Fiction: mysteries, ecological change, memory and the quietly uncanny.
• Free guides and reading companions: open to everyone, whether or not you own the book.

Where to find our books

Our published books are sold through Amazon. Each available book page has a Get the book link that opens that title directly.

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