This month we take a fascinating diversion into science non-fiction with Robyn Arianrhod’s first book, Einstein’s Heroes: Imagining the World through the Language of Mathematics, which explores the language of mathematics and the laws of electromagnetism through the lives of Albert Einstein’s three Read More
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Rising Water: a play by Tim Winton
It’s been a minute since our last release, but this is worth the wait – introducing Rising Water, the first play by one of Australia’s most popular and awarded writers, Tim Winton. Rising Water takes place on a boozy Australia Day Read More
Dorothy Porter’s Crete
Every book is a privilege to publish, but we are particularly proud to present a new hand-crafted electronic edition of Dorothy Porter’s poetry collection Crete. Dorothy is, of course, one of our most important poets and verse novelists. She is Read More
Tell the Running Water
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of a new edition of Abbas El-Zein’s first novel, Tell the Running Water. It’s a remarkable story of Beirut during the civil war, of three young people whose fates become entangled on either side Read More
Tumblr of basically forever
Ligature’s Tumblr of basically forever is, inescapably, I Love Ligatures (dot tumblr dot com), which since 2011 has been collecting examples of typographic ligatures (and some associated letterforms, like swashes and, basically, cursive). There are some inspired selections, like this disappearing RSVP, this Read More
Garry Disher’s shorter fiction
A real treat for the weekend: not one but two collections of Garry Disher’s shorter fiction, plus a special collection of those two collections. Garry first made his name as a short-story writer (The Age described him as the best in Read More
Two excellent reviews of The Secret Maker of the World
It’s great to see two new reviews of Abbas El-Zein’s collection of short stories, The Secret Maker of the World. First up is Portia Lindsay in The Australian: Abbas El-Zein’s acclaimed 2009 memoir Leave to Remain details his life in Beirut and Read More
Judge rules for HarperCollins over Open Road in e-book rights case
This is Open Road’s cover of Jean Craighead George’s classic Julie of the Wolves, first published by Harper & Row (now HarperCollins) in 1972 and reprinted many times since then. It won the Newbery Medal and also the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis—which was won Read More
Great review of The Storyteller and his Three Daughters
The Shogun-ki at the Samurai Archives Japanese History Page has a new and in-depth review of Lian Hearn’s The Storyteller and his Three Daughters: In our opinion, Hearn writes the best researched, most accurate Japanese historical fiction to be had. Read More
Winery of the week
Ligature’s winery of the week is Wither Hills from the Marlborough region of the South Island of New Zealand. It was established in 1994, but began moving to this typeface for some of its 2008 vintages and now applies it Read More