Ligature for bookshops

We love bookshops and would love to have our paperbacks in your bookshop. We know how important it is for readers to walk between the aisles, hold books in their hands and talk to booksellers who know and love the books they’re selling.

Bookshops around the world can order our paperbacks from IngramSpark/Lightning Source. You can also order direct from the Ligature Bookshop if you’d like to contact us at sales@ligatu.re for a discount code.

Australian bookshops are also invited to apply for a trade account.

Our currently available paperbacks are listed below.


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There Should Be More Dancing

by Rosalie Ham
Ligature finest
genre Humour · Literary Fiction

From the international best-selling author of The Dressmaker.



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Reading Magic

by Mem Fox
Ligature finest
genre Non-fiction

‘Reading aloud to our babies and young children will make the entire country better off.’



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Beautiful Objects: Selected Poems

by Martin Johnston
Ligature finest
genre Poetry

Born in Sydney and brought up in Greece, Martin Johnston’s experience of two languages and two cultures led him to produce a body of work that is both very Australian and quintessentially European.



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Unsettled

by Gay Lynch
Ligature first
genre Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction

The unsettled South Australian frontier near Mount Gambier is a strange and difficult place for a Galway family trying to make sense of their new world.



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The House Guest

by Eleanor Nilsson
Ligature finest
genre Literary Fiction · Young Adult

‘The pick of the bunch is Eleanor Nilsson’s evocative, spine-tingling novel about loyalty, friendship and communication across the barriers of death...’
The Sun-Herald



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The Earth Below

by Katy Barnett
Ligature first
genre Literary Fiction · Young Adult

Almost a century after the Catastrophe, a group of survivors have built a new society deep in the safety of the underground network.



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Answers to Brut

by Gillian Rubinstein
Ligature finest
genre Literary Fiction · Young Adult

‘He knew in his heart that the dog belonged to someone else, but at the same time he felt quite strongly that the dog ought to be his...’



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Shinkei

by Gillian Rubinstein
Ligature finest
genre Science Fiction · Young Adult

‘Its general meaning is nerve, or the nervous system. But originally it meant the channel of the gods, the divine pathway... It was to be the name of the new game.’



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Skymaze

by Gillian Rubinstein
Ligature finest
genre Science Fiction · Young Adult

‘All around him stars were appearing. Struggling and swaying, he pulled himself through the sky and sank down, panting and exhausted, in the first stage of the Skymaze.’



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Space Demons

by Gillian Rubinstein
Ligature finest
genre Science Fiction · Young Adult

‘On the screen the spaceman continued to zap the space demons, twisting, turning and firing, but the chair where he had sat was empty, and the joystick did not move...’



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Voyages to the South Seas

by Danielle Clode
Ligature finest
genre Non-fiction · Science

Winner of the Victorian Premier's Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction, Voyages to the South Seas is an exhilarating expedition through a key period in the European exploration of the Pacific and in the history of science.



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A Future in Flames

by Danielle Clode
Ligature finest
genre Non-fiction

Fire has shaped the Australian landscape and the lives of Australians for thousands of years—and will continue to do so as the climate changes. For all our advances in prevention and prediction, planning and communication, bushfires keep claiming our lives and our homes. How can we avoid another Ash Wednesday or Black Saturday?



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The Hand that Signed the Paper

by Helen Dale
Ligature finest
genre Literary Fiction

As war crimes prosecutions seize Australia, Fiona Kovalenko discovers that her own family is implicated in the darkest events of the twentieth century. This is their story.