Ligature Finest imprint: 12 books

by Abbas El-Zein
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014

A sniper on the rooftops of Beirut. A fisherman of bodies in the Yellow River. A medieval geographer waiting for the Mongol invaders. A long-haul flight with a masked stranger and a tormentor from the past. A woman searching for her lover through a war zone. Abbas El-Zein’s new collection of stories...

Leave to Remain

A Memoir

by Abbas El-Zein
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2014

Leave to Remain is Abbas El-Zein's award-winning memoir of his youth in Lebanon and his years of travel between the Arab and Western worlds. It is powerful and poetic, passionate and elegiac, a clear-eyed and heartfelt examination of the forces that have shaped both his own life and a great deal of...
by Abbas El-Zein
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014

Beirut. One Sunday in 1975: the day war took the city by surprise. Seven o’clock in the morning. Three teenagers gazed in silence at the world around them. Kareem Kader leads two lives – studying music by day and getting high on drugs and the thrill of battle at night. Kareem is in love...
by Garry Disher
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2014

There are three ways to play a crime story. You can play it straight, making the most of the conventions of the genre. You can bend the conventions and the genre itself all the way around. Or you can take the genre deeper into the human mind and soul. These dozen stories play it every way there...
by Garry Disher
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2014

Two of Garry Disher’s seminal collections of fiction, collected together for the first time. If you love Garry’s literary fiction or crime fiction, his longer or shorter works—this collection has it all, and usually all at once. Flamingo Gate · Melbourne in the last decade of...

Shrine

a play

by Tim Winton
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016

Tim Winton’s third play is a haunting exploration of the way in which we try to own our dead, and the way in which they come to own us. Night time. A siren howls by, a phone rings, there’s a knock at the door. Adam and Mary Mans eld are reliving the night they find themselves standing...
by Lian Hearn
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014

From the author of the international best-selling Tales of the Otori comes a new story about the seduction and peril of stories themselves: the power they hold over their tellers and listeners, and the way they can shape both the past and the future. Japan in the late 19th century is...
by Garry Disher
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014

A concentration camp—on Australian soil. Men are separated from their families by barbed wire. They have committed no crimes; they try to explain to their children that they're not in prison. It feels like prison. They’re told it’s only temporary, there are processes in train. Nothing changes....

Flamingo Gate

A Novella and Stories

by Garry Disher
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2014

Melbourne in the last decade of the millennium feels like a hard-boiled fiction or a noir film, with corruption in the air and on the ground. Six short stories and a novella circle the city's decay, spiral towards a thrilling conclusion and fuse into a new kind of crime fiction. Vignettes...
by Garry Disher
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014

Past the Headlands is a sweeping story of north-west Australia and south-east Asia at the beginning of the Pacific War in 1941. The fall of Malaya and Singapore and the bombing of Darwin—what looked like the invasion of Australia—ebb and crash over a man’s long search to find a home and...

Einstein's Heroes

Imagining the World Through the Language of Mathematics

by Robyn Arianrhod
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015

Albert Einstein kept the portraits of three inspiring predecessors on his study wall: Sir Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell and Michael Faraday. This is the story of those three explorers in the fundamental language of mathematics.  Imagine you are fluent in a magical language of prophecy, a...
by Dorothy Porter
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014

The follow-up to the international bestselling The Monkey’s Mask, Dorothy Porter’s Crete is an astonishing collection that traverses Greek myth and Russian poets, the memory of cigarettes and the wild abandon of love. Crete is a heady mix of dark humour, archaeology, breathtaking eroticism,...
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