Category Archives: Title

Life, Bound

2 April, 2020 Editor-in-Chief 1 Comment

by Marian Matta

Marian Matta’s Life, Bound moves through time and place, following characters who struggle to escape the past and strive to shape the future.

Free agents or captives of our past? In Life, Bound, characters find themselves caught in situations not of their own making, or trapped by ingrained habits, walking in grooves carved out by past events.

An artist’s progress is pleasingly channelled Continue reading Life, Bound →

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Anisa’s Alphabet

2 February, 2020 Editor-in-Chief Leave a comment

Written by Mike Dumbleton, illustrated by Hannah Sommerville

HB 32 | 280 x 240
ISBN: 9781922858269 | $17.99
Picture book | March 2020
MidnightSun Publishing
Distributed by NewSouth Books

For many refugees the alphabet represents the start of a new language and a new future, but Anisa’s Alphabet is different.

A poignant and highly imaginative telling of one girl’s story which will appeal to children and adults alike … Come with Anisa, and see things through her eyes. Continue reading Anisa’s Alphabet →

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No Neat Endings

2 February, 2020 Editor-in-Chief 3 Comments

by Dominic Carew

A young man can’t make love. A pedantic father spots a blemish in his new shorts and returns to the shop to demand their exchange. A girl rocks up to a Tinder date wearing a helmet.

In nineteen short stories, No Neat Endings pits its characters against the challenges of modern life, sex, love, work and the world. Continue reading No Neat Endings →

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Hide

24 September, 2019 Editor-in-Chief Leave a comment

by S.J. Morgan

It’s 1983 in Thatcher’s Britain. Alec Johnston has left his comfortable family home in Cardiff and taken a flat with bikers Minto, Stobes and Black. There he meets Sindy, Minto’s strange and vulnerable young girlfriend. When she starts to view Alec as a possible saviour from her abusive relationship, it earns Alec a big target on his back. Continue reading Hide →

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Cryptosight

22 September, 2019 Editor-in-Chief 1 Comment

by Nean McKenzie

Rafferty Kaminski is a 13-year-old who believes in facts. Not like his Cryptozoologist father, who searches for creatures not proven to exist.

When their father disappears in the Flinders Ranges, strange things start happening. Continue reading Cryptosight →

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Born to Fly

20 August, 2019 Editor-in-Chief Leave a comment

written by Beverley McWilliams
illustrated by Timothy Ide

HB 32 | 282 x 245 | ISBN: 9781925227567 | $29.99
Picture book | August 2019
MidnightSun Publishing
Distributed by NewSouth Books

Born in 1889 on a farm in rural South Australia, Harry Butler was determined to fly. Follow Harry’s remarkable journey from studying the flight of his chickens to becoming one of Australia’s most significant pioneer aviators. Continue reading Born to Fly →

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I Would Dangle the Moon

27 March, 2019 Editor-in-Chief 1 Comment

by Amber Moffat

HB 32 | 260 x 280 | ISBN: 9781925227529
$29.99 | Picture book
MidnightSun Publishing | June 2019
Distributed by NewSouth Books

What would you do if you could pluck the moon from the sky? Would you scoop it up in an ice cream cone, or ride it like a snail shell across the night sky? I Would Dangle the Moon is an imaginative and playful story about all the wonderful things a mother would do with the moon for her child if she could do anything in the world. Continue reading I Would Dangle the Moon →

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River Stone

27 March, 2019 Editor-in-Chief Leave a comment

by Rachel Hennessy

Pandora, of the River People, wants more than her village can provide. When disaster comes to her people, Pan has the opportunity to become their saviour and escape her inevitable pairing with life-long friend Matthew. She wants to make her own choices. Deep in her soul, she believes there is something more out there, beyond the boundaries, especially since she encountered the hunter of the Mountain People.

A story of confused love, difficult friendships and clumsy attempts at heroism, Pan’s fight for her village will bring her into contact with a whole new world, where the truth about the past will have terrifying reverberations for her people’s future survival. Continue reading River Stone →

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The Day We Built the Bridge

1 February, 2019 Editor-in-Chief Leave a comment

Written by Samantha Tidy
Illustrated by Fiona Burrows

HB 32 | 210 x 297 | ISBN: 9781925227437
$29.99 | Picture book
MidnightSun Publishing | February 2019
Distributed by NewSouth Books

Big dreams can take generations. It can also take six million hand-driven rivets and 53,000 tonnes of steel. The Day We Built the Bridge celebrates our connection with one another, and declares that despite the greatest of challenges, together we can make history.

There are moments in history that connect us and define a country. In our hearts and minds, some moments rely on us to hold onto a dream, face tough Continue reading The Day We Built the Bridge →

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Vanishing

27 November, 2018 Editor-in-Chief Leave a comment

Written by Mike Lucas,
illustrated by Jennifer Harrison

HB 32 | 250 x 295
ISBN: 9781925227444 | $29.99
Picture book | November 2018
MidnightSun Publishing
Distributed by NewSouth Books

Once creatures of all shapes and sizes, from the magnificent and mighty, to the tiniest of marvels, wandered this empty land. They had horns and wings and survived in all kinds of lands, from desert plains to icy tundras. But where are they now? Continue reading Vanishing →

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Heaven Sent

27 October, 2018 Editor-in-Chief Leave a comment

by S.J. Morgan

Angels come in many guises; some have broken wings …

Evie’s life is in tatters. She has a father she barely knows, a step-dad she’d rather she didn’t, and a best friend going off the rails. Then there’s the brace she has to wear for her wonky spine… Continue reading Heaven Sent →

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Beneath the Mother Tree

10 May, 2018 Editor-in-Chief Leave a comment

by D.M. Cameron

PB 336 | 154 x 233 | ISBN: 9781925227390 | $32.99 | Fiction
Also available as ebook | MidnightSun Publishing
August 2018 | Distributed by NewSouth Books

A spine-chilling mystery and contemporary love story, Beneath the Mother Tree plays out in a unique and wild Australian setting, interweaving Indigenous history and Irish mythology. Continue reading Beneath the Mother Tree →

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Message in a Sock

9 May, 2018 Editor-in-Chief 1 Comment

Written by Kaye Baillie,
Illustrated by Narelda Joy

HB 32 | 271 x 294 | ISBN: 9781925227383
$27.99 | Picture book
MidnightSun Publishing | April 2018
Distributed by NewSouth Books

Tammy is safe at home, but her heart is with her father at the warfront. While her mother knits socks for the soldiers, Tammy slips a message inside each pair. But will her one special message find her father, and bring him safely home? Continue reading Message in a Sock →

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Plane Tree Drive

26 September, 2017 Editor-in-Chief 4 Comments

by Lynette Washington

Peer through the windows and doors on Plane Tree Drive to find a streetscape that is humorous, heartbreaking, real and surreal. Here, the loneliness of domestic isolation and the joy of connection weave together to form an interlaced map of suburban life.

‘With each story in this complex fresco, layers are peeled away and others added, slowly revealing a delicate portrait of hurts and hopes, vulnerability and strength. Plane Tree Drive is a stunning and sensitive exploration of people, place and relationships.’
–Michelle Wright, author of Fine

Continue reading Plane Tree Drive →

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Crush

23 August, 2017 Editor-in-Chief 6 Comments

Edited by Simone Corletto, Amy T. Matthews, Jess M. Miller and Lynette Washington

Bursting with affection, wit, loss, sex and a whole lot of love, the authors in this collection face the burning beauty of love and write of both the blaze and the ashes left behind. Crush will quicken the pulses of cynics and believers alike as it reimagines everything that makes the heart leap.

‘A delicious and captivating look at love in all its wonderful and varied forms. I’d love to read more from these fresh voices!’
–Rachael Johns

Continue reading Crush →

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