Hippopotamus House Independent Press
History, politics, and fiction from the ground up.
A modern author site for George R. Andrews: historical fiction, alternate history, civic writing, and narrative non-fiction that follows power down to the human scale.
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Calder’s Ledger
Some violence is written in clean ink.
Calder’s Ledger is a serious and intimate work of Canadian historical fiction about the quiet force of official paper, and the people whose lives are altered by it.
In the 1870s, Esmond Calder travels west with a letter in his coat and a young man’s faith in order. He believes in good handwriting, proper records, straight lines, and the promise of Dominion work. To him, paper offers dignity. A map can make the country legible. A ledger can make work honest. A signature can turn uncertainty into fact.
But the West is not empty, and the line on the map is never only a line.
Two wings, one house
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Standalone works and a fractured continent.
Earth Remembers
When a people are starved, memory becomes resistance.
Earth Remembers: A Holodomor Tale is a heartfelt work of historical fiction about one Ukrainian family’s struggle to survive as ordinary village life is slowly broken by collectivization, suspicion, hunger, and state violence.
Open featureCalder’s Ledger
Some violence is written in clean ink.
Calder’s Ledger is a powerful work of Canadian historical fiction about memory, bureaucracy, and the moral cost of obedience.
Open featureFractured Continent
Fractured Continent is a sweeping alternate-history series about conquest, occupation, rebellion, empire, and the dangerous stories nations tell about themselves.
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Canada’s Long Century
Canada did not simply happen.
Canada did not simply happen.
Canada’s Long Century is an eight-volume narrative history of Canada from the Confederation decade to the end of Jean Chrétien’s Canada. It follows a country argued into being through law, railway iron, treaties, immigration, war, hunger, scandal, resistance, reform, and memory.
This is not a museum-label version of Canadian history. It is a story of prime ministers and premiers, but also railway workers, homesteaders, Indigenous leaders, nurses, soldiers, strikers, immigrants, veterans, fishers, oil workers, students, mothers, voters, and families trying to understand the state as it enters their kitchens, pay packets, classrooms, farms, reserves, streets, and ballot boxes.
Open seriesAbout the author
Writing from the ground up.
Andrews writes in both fiction and non-fiction. His interests move between historical fiction, alternate history, political reflection, and accessible civic writing. Across all of it, his central concern remains the same: how large events reach ordinary people. Laws, borders, policies, wars, shortages, elections, schoolrooms, taxes, official records, and public myths are never abstract for long. Eventually, they arrive at the kitchen table, the village road, the farm gate, the shop counter, the classroom, the parish ledger, or the family letter.
At its heart, his writing asks a plain question: when history moves, who feels it first?
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