Our latest book is also one of our earliest: it’s Garry Disher’s classic The Stencil Man, first published in 1988 and one of Garry’s first novels. The titular stencil man is Martin Linke, a proud and uncompromising figure who has Read More
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The Secret Maker of the World
We are very proud and excited to announce the international launch of our first day-and-date title, Abbas El-Zein’s exquisite collection of short stories The Secret Maker of the World. These stories span continents and centuries and are inflected with genres Read More
Album of the Period Until the Next Album
I’m very happy to announce that the Ligature’s inaugural Album of the Period Until the Next Album is Neil Finn’s new solo effort, Dizzy Heights. It’s rare to see a typographic ligature featured so prominently in contemporary pop, but I’m Read More
Ignition… Blastoff… Launch!
It must have been 1994 or 1995 that I first spoke at a festival session about the Future of the Book. I remember Madonna had just announced that the best thing to curl up in bed with was a good Read More
Welcome to Ligature
Welcome to the Ligature website. Ligature is a cooperative electronic platform developed by me, Matt Rubinstein. Right now we publish electronic editions of most of my books as well as three award-winning classics of Australian young adult literature by Gillian Read More