We were delighted (but hardly surprised) to hear last week that Bernard Cohen had won the inaugural Russell Prize for Humour Writing for The Antibiography of Robert F Menzies against a very strong field.
Bernard donated his prize to two organisations close to his heart and ours — the Children’s Hospital at Westmead and Save the Children’s work for children in immigration detention on Nauru.
All of Bernard’s work is deeply funny and profoundly serious — much like Bernard — and we are thrilled to publish electronic editions of his pre-antibiographical novels, featuring covers painted by Bernard himself and beginning with the multi-award-winning post-modern mystery The Blindman’s Hat and his first novel Tourism, which firmly established Bernard’s propensity to defy and define genres and forms. Both are available worldwide and DRM-free from the Ligature bookshop or your favourite e-book retailer, with the fractured road story Hardy Beach Weather and the post-apocalyptic Snowdome still to come.