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- [Teacher Notes & Activities - <em>Stuff</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2026/06/teacher-notes-activities-stuff/) - Teachers' Notes for Stuff (pdf, 513 kb) Activities (with images) for Stuff (pdf, 2.7 Mb)
- [<em>Stuff</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2026/06/stuff/) - Written by Jen Sherrington and illustrated by Hélène Magisson HB 32 | 216 x 256mm | ISBN: 9781922858771 | $29.99 Picture Book | MidnightSun Publishing | August 2026 Distributed by NewSouth Books Morri is chuffed when Birdee gives him stuff. Having stuff is fun! Morri looks up to those with lots of stuff. He looks
- [Teacher Notes - <em>Animal Force</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2026/06/teacher-notes-animal-force/) - Teachers' Notes for Animal Force (docx, 5.3 Mb)
- [Jen Sherrington](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2026/06/jen-sherrington/) - Jen Sherrington is a writer and educator based in Perth, Western Australia. She loves creating stories that celebrate the wonders of reading, writing, and creative thinking. Family moments, friendship fun and farm life adventures sneak into her books. Jen is the author of Grandma Love and Grandpa, Read This Book, published by Wild Eyed Press
- [Hélène Magisson](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/08/helene-magisson/) - Hélène Magisson is a critically acclaimed French-Australian illustrator of many books for children. Before Hélène turned to book illustration, she was a painting restorer in Paris, where she was also trained in the art of medieval illumination. Hélène’s children’s books are widely known and loved across the world. Her timeless style lends itself beautifully to
- [Teacher Notes - <em>Fearless Finn</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2026/06/teacher-notes-fearless-finn/) - Teachers' Notes for Fearless Finn (pdf, 8.9 Mb)
- [Cerise Madsen](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2026/05/cerise-madsen/) - Cerise Madsen is a speech pathologist in Brisbane, where she runs her own practice supporting language development through speech, storytelling, and sign. Fluent in Norwegian, French, and the ever-evolving language of tweens and teens, Cerise has shared her love of communication by teaching English to international students, Norwegian to refugees, and now supporting children, teens
- [<em>Animal Force</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2026/05/animal-force/) - Written by Cerise Madsen and illustrated by Sally Heinrich PB136 | 129 x 198mm | ISBN: 9781922858740 | $17.99 Junior Fiction Ages 6+ | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | July 2026 Distributed by NewSouth Books Animal Force is a magical wildlife adventure packed with fun, danger and epic animal powers! It was supposed
- [Sally Heinrich](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2015/04/sally-heinrich/) - Sally Heinrich works in a number of mediums, primarily watercolour and graphite pencil, pen and ink and lino-prints. Her work includes illustrations for more than forty books, as well as writing and illustrating her own picture books, novels and non-fiction. Her artwork ranges in scale from greeting cards to murals, including for the Singapore Zoo
- [Kristin Martin](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2026/05/kristin-martin/) - Kristin Martin is an author, poet and primary school teacher with a fondness for writing in rhyme. She draws inspiration from the natural world and from observing her young students’ imaginative play. Her books include Where Shall We Travel Today?, Honey Possum's Bush Café, Banjo Frog’s Concert Spectacular, To Rhyme or Not to Rhyme? and
- [Lauren Mullinder](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2026/05/lauren-mullinder/) - Lauren Mullinder is an illustrator, graphic designer, artist and educator. Based in her home studio in Adelaide, South Australia, Lauren spends her time drawing, exploring the natural world and developing workshops in art, drawing fundamentals and environment design. She has a passion for children’s literature and has illustrated seven children’s books. She loves visiting schools
- [<em>Fearless Finn</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2026/05/fearless-finn/) - Written by Kristin Martin and illustrated by Lauren Mullinder HB 32 | 300 x 300mm | ISBN: 9781922858733 | $29.99 Picture Book | MidnightSun Publishing | May 2026 Distributed by NewSouth Books When a dragon causes havoc with her fiery breath, farm boy Finn sets out to defeat her. He follows her trail of destruction
- [<em>Girls Like</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2026/04/girls-like/) - Written by Katrina Germein and illustrated by Deb Hudson HB 32 | 250 x 260mm | ISBN: 9781922858726 | $29.99 Picture Book | MidnightSun Publishing | May 2026 Distributed by NewSouth Books Dance feet Dare feet Fast feet Bare feet Vibrantly illustrated by Deb Hudson, award-winning author Katrina Germein's gorgeous Girls Like is a joyous
- [Katrina Germein](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2026/04/katrina-germein/) - Katrina Germein is a best-selling children's author, published and translated internationally. Her popular titles include Bev and Kev, Fabulous Frogs, One Little Duck, and the My Dad Thinks He's Funny series. Katrina's work has been Highly Commended in the Prime Minister's Literary Awards and won a CBCA Honour, as well as CBCA short-listings and Notables.
- [Picture Book Prize Winner!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2026/03/picture-book-prize-winner/) - We are absolutely thrilled to announce the winner of the inaugural MidnightSun Picture Book Prize. Choosing a winner from the terrific shortlist was difficult but ultimately we had to pick one and the winner is... The Battle of the Beast by Penny O'Loughlin with a funny and sweet story of friendship and the power of
- [Deb Hudson](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/07/deb-hudson/) - Deb Hudson is an illustrator with a passion for drawing bright, happy and colorful images that evoke emotion and thought in their viewer. Her work has been described as whimsical, carrying you off to fantastic places and worlds. She was previously a teacher, and taught English in Japan for a number of years. She then
- [Teacher Notes - <em>Girls Like</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2026/04/teacher-notes-girls-like/) - Teachers' Notes for Girls Like (pdf, 935 kb)
- [Teacher Notes - <em>Audrey Skips</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2026/02/teacher-notes-audrey-skips/) - Teachers' Notes for Audrey Skips (pdf, 511 kb)
- [Andrea Rowe](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2026/02/andrea-rowe/) - Andrea Rowe is a best-selling, award-winning picture book author. Her picture book, Jetty Jumping (illustrated by Hannah Sommerville), was awarded the 2022 CBCA Picture Book of the Year – Early Childhood and the 2023 Australian Speech Pathology Picture Book of the Year. In the Rockpool and Amid the Sand Dunes (Hardie Grant) were both awarded
- [Lisa Coutts](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2026/02/lisa-coutts/) - Lisa Coutts is an illustrator based in Naarm, Melbourne, Australia. Her work has features in over 20 of varying genres, and her greatest love is picture books. Lisa loves creating charming characters and placing them in quirky and whimsical worlds. She is the illustrator of The Great Book Swapping Machine by Emma Allen and she
- [<em>Audrey Skips</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2026/02/audrey-skips/) - Written by Andrea Rowe and illustrated by Lisa Coutts HB 32 | 210 x 297 | ISBN: 9781922858719 | $29.99 Picture Book | MidnightSun Publishing | February 2026 Distributed by NewSouth Books Bright and shiny Audrey loves to skip a jump rope rhyme, right off her rooftop and through the sleeping streets of a city.
- [MidnightSun Publishing Picture Book Prize](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2025/11/midnightsun-publishing-picture-book-prize/) - The Picture Book Prize competition has now closed. Conditions of Entry Please refer to the page above for the conditions of entry. When making your submission, you will be asked to confirm that you have read and agree to the conditions of entry. Submission Guidelines Font: Times New Roman Font Size: 12pt Line Spacing: 2.0
- [Michael Burge](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2021/09/michael-burge/) - Michael Burge is an author and journalist who lives at Deepwater in the New England region of NSW, Michael's debut novel Tank Water was released by MidnightSun Publishing in 2021, and Dirt Trap in 2025. His article about the research behind this coming-of-age crime thriller appeared in The Journal of Australian Studies. A second novel
- [<em>Dirt Trap</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2025/11/dirt-trap/) - by Michael Burge PB tbc | 234 x 153 | ISBN: 9781922858689 | $34.99 Novel | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | November 2025 Distributed by NewSouth Books Journalist James Brandt lives in a brittle truce with his partner Dylan and his family, never talking about the homophobic attacks he exposed in his rural
- [Picture Book Prize Conditions](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/11/picture-book-prize-conditions/) - Entry into this competition is deemed acceptance of these Conditions of Entry. Entrants must be Australian citizens or Australian Residents. Entrants must be over the age of 18 to submit their manuscript. Entries must be received by MidnightSun Publishing by the 25th of December 2025 (by 23:59pm ACDT). Entrants can submit multiple works, but a
- [Picture Book Prize Entry Form](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/11/picture-book-prize-entry-form/)
- [Teacher Notes - <em>The Giant</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2025/09/teacher-notes-the-giant/) - Teachers' Notes for The Giant (pdf, 315 kb)
- [Teacher Notes - <em>Where Shall We Travel Today?</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2025/09/teacher-notes-where-shall-we-travel-today/) - Teachers' Notes for Where Shall We Travel Today (pdf, 60 kb)
- [Teacher Notes - <em>When Dark Waters Burn</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2025/09/teacher-notes-when-dark-waters-burn/) - Teachers' Notes for When Dark Waters Burn (pdf, 694 kb)
- [Kate Talbot](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2025/09/kate-talbot/) - Kate Talbot is an Australian-born, New Zealand-based children’s book writer and illustrator. Working digitally, she is passionate about instilling a love for stories and storytelling in little people and hopes to nurture life-long readers and artists through her quirky characters and vibrant illustrations. Windy Washing Day is Kate's first book with MidnightSun Publishing and was
- [<em>Windy Washing Day</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2025/09/windy-washing-day/) - Written by Yvonne Low and illustrated by Kate Talbot HB 32 | 210 x 210 | ISBN: 9781922858672 | $29.99 Picture Book | MidnightSun Publishing | September 2025 Distributed by NewSouth Books How an ordinary day becomes extraordinary… It’s a dry, sunny day and perfect for hanging out the laundry. But what happens when an
- [Yvonne Low](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2025/09/yvonne-low/) - Yvonne Low is a writer, illustrator and award-winning fine artist, creating picture books, poetry and junior fiction. While nature is her main inspiration, through her background in the performing arts as a dancer and choreographer, theatre, film, music and foreign cultures also feed her imagination. Her work is whimsical and often has a dash of
- [Lorena Carrington](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/02/lorena-carrington/) - Lorena Carrington is an acclaimed illustrator and writer based in regional Victoria, known for her intricate photographic montage illustrations. Some of her recent books include The Grown-Up’s Guide to Picture Books with Lara Cain Gray (author) and Timothy Ide (co-illustrator), Leaf Letters, Kate Forsyth’s Long Lost Fairy Tales, and Satin with Sophie Masson. Her work
- [Sophie Masson](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/11/sophie-masson/) - Sophie Masson AM was born in Indonesia of French parents, and brought up in France and Australia, and now lives in regional NSW. She is the award-winning and internationally-published author of over 60 books for children, young adults and adults. A former chair of the Australian Society of Authors and chair of the New England
- [<em>The Giant</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2025/08/the-giant/) - Written by Sophie Masson and illustrated by Lorena Carrington HB 32 | 220 x 290 | ISBN: 9781922858658 | $29.99 Picture Book | MidnightSun Publishing | August 2025 Distributed by NewSouth Books On the day the giant wakes from a long sleep, he’s filled with joy at the thought of seeing his friends in the
- [<em>Where Shall We Travel Today?</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2025/07/where-shall-we-travel-today/) - Written by Kristin Martin and illustrated by Nicky Johnston HB 32 | 216 x 256 | ISBN: 9781922858542 | $29.99 Picture Book | MidnightSun Publishing | 1 July 2025 Distributed by NewSouth Books A group of neighbourhood friends search for adventure. They climb mountains, sail through waterfalls and snorkel the reef. At night, they marvel
- [Nicky Johnston](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2025/07/nicky-johnston/) - Nicky Johnston is an educator, speaker, and author/illustrator of children’s books. She enjoys every aspect of creating books for kids, especially illustration. Nicky’s illustration style is often described as whimsical, emotive, soft, and expressive. Her love of teaching sees her busy with school visits and presenting at workshops and conferences. Nicky's book Where Shall We
- [Zena Shapter](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/05/zena-shapter/) - Zena Shapter is a multi-award-winning author, high school English tutor and youth writing competition judge. Before writing When Dark Waters Burn, she interviewed scores of teenagers about what they wanted to read, and their concerns for the future. She was fascinated to learn they sought escapist stories that authentically represented their feelings of being unheard,
- [<em>When Dark Waters Burn</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2025/06/when-dark-waters-burn-2/) - by Zena Shapter PB 400 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781922858627 | $21.99 Young Adult | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | 1 June 2025 Distributed by NewSouth Books Stay out of sight. Stay hidden under the lake. Giant water-ants scout the surface and deadly trees slop their hungry roots along the shoreline.
- [Teacher Notes - <em>Windy Washing Day</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2025/09/teacher-notes-windy-washing-day/) - Teachers' Notes for Windy Washing Day (pdf, 294 kb)
- [Pause in Submissions](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2025/05/pause-in-submissions/) - PLEASE NOTE: Due to an overwhelming number of submissions, we are taking a break. Submissions are now closed from the 7th of May 2025 until the 1st of December 2025. Any submissions sent before the 1st of December 2025 will not be considered and will not be replied to. If you made a submission before
- [<em>When Dark Waters Burn</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2025/01/when-dark-waters-burn/) - by Zena Shapter PB 400 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781922858627 | $21.99 Young Adult | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | 1 May 2025 Distributed by NewSouth Books Stay out of sight. Stay hidden under the lake. Even as giant water-ants scout the surface, and deadly trees slop their hungry roots along
- [Gisela Ervin-Ward](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2025/01/gisela-ervin-ward/) - Gisela Ervin-Ward writes stuff for kids to read and teaches them how to read it. She grew up on a farm in Western Victoria and moved to South-East Asia to be an aid worker for many years before returning to Australia with her family to live in the Macedon Ranges. She’s now a writer of
- [<em>True South</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2025/01/true-south/) - by Gisela Ervin-Ward PB 192 | 198 x 129 ISBN: 9781922858597 | $19.99 Middle Grade | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | 25 May 2025 Distributed by NewSouth Books When twelve-year-old Nell crashes her sailboat into a submerged house in the lake, she stumbles into a treasure hunt that plunges her into a generations-old
- [<em>Shift</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2025/01/shift/) - by Irma Gold PB | 234 x 153 ISBN: 9781922858566 | $34.99 Adult fiction | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | March 2025 Distributed by NewSouth Books In the year of the 70th anniversary of the Freedom Charter — which outlined the principles of democracy and freedom in South Africa — comes a novel
- [Irma Gold](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/12/irma-gold/) - Irma Gold is an author, freelance editor and podcaster. Her works include a novel, The Breaking, a short fiction collection, Two Steps Forward, and five children’s books. Her short fiction has been widely published in literary journals, and her next children’s book, Come Home, Bigibila, co- written with Kamilaroi man Corey Tutt, is forthcoming with
- [<em>Willow’s Gumboots</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/08/willows-gumboots/) - by Beverley McWilliams and Hélène Magisson HB 32 | 256 x 216 | ISBN: 9781922858535 | $29.99 Picture Book | MidnightSun Publishing | October 2024 Distributed by NewSouth Books Willow loved her gumboots. She wore them wherever she went. The gumboots were there in the garden, at the beach and even at parties. But one
- [<em>Double Happiness</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/08/double-happiness/) - by Rochelle Siemienowicz PB | 234 x 153 ISBN: 9781922858474 | $34.99 Adult fiction | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | 1 October 2024 Distributed by NewSouth Books One woman, two men. What if she doesn’t have to choose? Overcome with guilt about a love affair she can’t give up, Anna confesses to her
- [Teacher Notes - <em>The Grown-Up's Guide to Picture Books</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/08/teacher-notes-the-grown-ups-guide-to-picture-books/) - Teachers' Notes for The Grown-Up's Guide to Picture Books (pdf, 1.8 Mb)
- [Beverley McWilliams](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2019/09/beverley-mcwilliams/) - Beverley McWilliams is a children’s author from South Australia with a passion for historical fiction. Her debut picture book Born to Fly published by MidnightSun Publishing was a CBCA notable book. Beverley has published two middle-grade historical novels with Pantera Press: The Reindeer and the Submarine (2022) and Spies in the Sky (2023). Beverley is
- [Rochelle Siemienowicz](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/08/rochelle-siemienowicz/) - Rochelle Siemienowicz is a writer, editor and arts journalist. Her first book was Fallen (Affirm Press, 2015), a memoir about sex, religion and marrying too young. Her debut novel, Double Happiness (MidnightSun, 2024) is a polyamorous love story. Rochelle’s work has been published widely, including in The Age, SBS, Kill Your Darlings, The Big Issue,
- [<em>The Grown-Up’s Guide to Picture Books</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/07/the-grown-ups-guide-to-picture-books/) - Written by Lara Cain Gray and illustrated by Lorena Carrington and Timothy Ide HB | 297 x 210 | ISBN: 9781922858504 | $34.99 Non-Fiction Book for Adults | MidnightSun Publishing | 1 September 2024 Distributed by NewSouth Books A picture book is a book with pictures, but it’s so much more than that! This A
- [<em>The Kelly Gang Kids</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/07/the-kelly-gang-kids/) - by Coral Vass and Deb Hudson HB 32 | 260 x 250 | ISBN: 9781922858375 | $29.99 Picture Book | MidnightSun Publishing | August 2024 Distributed by NewSouth Books Chasing each other down Avenel Way, the Kelly Gang kids just wanted to play. Young Ned Kelly and his mates get up to all sorts of
- [<em>R.E.Generation</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/04/r-e-generation/) - by Michael Prewer PB 448 | 234 x 153 ISBN: 9781922858443 | $34.99 Literary sci-fi | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | 1 June 2024 Distributed by NewSouth Books After 50,000 years in a chemically-induced sleep, Sarah and her fellow R.E.Generation volunteers awake to find a world devoid of human life. Climate change has
- [<em>The Helios Book</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/04/the-helios-book/) - by Slade Carter PB 224 | 198 x 129 ISBN: 9781922858412 | $17.99 Middle Grade | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | 23 May 2024 Distributed by NewSouth Books Twelve-year-old twins Hugo and Kitty have an ultra-rare condition called heterochromia, which bestows them with different coloured eyes: one hazel, the other blue. On holiday
- [<em>Tayta's Secret Ingredient</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/02/taytas-secret-ingredient/) - by Amal Abu-Eid (author) and Cara King (illustrator) HB 32 | 280 x 240 | ISBN: 9781922858122 | $29.99 Picture book for all ages MidnightSun Publishing | March 2024 Distributed by NewSouth Books Billy loves Harmony Day. He loves the colours, the clothes and especially the food. This year Tayta is making kaak, a Lebanese
- [Dr Lara Cain Gray](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/07/dr-lara-cain-gray/) - Dr Lara Cain Gray is a writer, librarian and storytelling advocate based in Brisbane, Australia. Her professional past spans library and museum curatorship, academic research, and corporate and creative writing and editing. She is currently Head of Acquisitions at nonprofit publisher Library For All, delivering cross-cultural children’s books to remote and low-income communities. She reads
- [Coral Vass](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/07/coral-vass/) - Coral Vass is an award-winning children’s author, presenter, editor and reviewer. With over 20 published children’s books, Coral’s books include Sorry Day (Speech Pathology Awards Book of the Year and CBCA Book of the Year – Eve Pownall Award), Grandma’s Treasured Shoes (Caleb Book of the Year), and Jørn’s Magnificent Imagination (CBCA Notable and shortlisted
- [Allayne Webster](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/03/allayne-webster/) - Allayne is the author of 10 books for young people. Her novel Selfie is currently shortlisted in the prestigious 2024 NSW Premier's Awards for the Ethel Turner Prize for Young Adult Literature. In 2023, Allayne won an international prize: IBBY Outstanding Book for Young People with Disabilities for her novel Sensitive. Allayne is a SA
- [Teacher Notes - <em>Tayta's Secret Ingredient</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/04/teacher-notes-taytas-secret-ingredient/) - Teachers' Notes for Tayta's Secret Ingredient (pdf, 332 kb)
- [Teacher Notes - <em>A Way Home</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/04/teacher-notes-a-way-home/) - Teachers' Notes for A Way Home (pdf, 297 kb)
- [Teacher Notes - <em>The Weaver</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/04/teacher-notes-the-weaver/) - Teachers' Notes for The Weaver (pdf, 428 kb)
- [Teacher Notes - <em>Raised by Moths</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/04/teacher-notes-raised-by-moths/) - Teachers' Notes for Raised by Moths (pdf, 260 kb)
- [Teacher Notes - <em>Xenoflight</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/04/teacher-notes-xenoflight/) - Teachers' Notes for Xenoflight (pdf, 332 kb)
- [Teacher Notes - <em>Medieval Monsters and Other Creatures</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/04/teacher-notes-medieval-monsters-and-other-creatures/) - Teachers' Notes for Medieval Monsters and Other Creatures (pdf, 778 kb)
- [Slade Carter](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/04/slade-carter/) - Slade Carter was born in Bendigo, Australia, and currently lives in London with his wife and two children. By day, Slade works in government affairs in the health sector. Slade enjoys reading, travelling, the wonders of nature, music and spending time with his family. The Helios Book is his first novel.
- [Michael Prewer](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/04/michael-prewer/) - Michael Prewer has been writing plays and stories and developing board games for as long as he can remember. R.E.Generation is his debut novel, but he already has a number of others in the works. Michael holds a Bachelor of Science (majoring in Anatomy) and a Masters of Speech Pathology. He has worked as a
- [<em>A Way Home</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/02/a-way-home/) - by Emily Brewin PB | 198 x 129 ISBN: 9781922858382 | $19.99 Young Adult | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | 25 April 2024 Distributed by NewSouth Books AGE GUIDE: 13+ Sixteen-year-old Grace lives under a bridge in Melbourne’s CBD. It’s cold and wet, but hidden. Safe, at least, until she can go home.
- [Amal Abou-Eid](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/02/amal-abou-eid/) - Amal Abou-Eid is a passionate educator, mother and author of multiple self-published books. Amal started writing children’s books when she realised she couldn’t find books for her children with characters and stories that related to their Muslim Lebanese Australian identity. She believes in the power of representation and inclusion in books and writes stories which
- [Cara King](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/02/cara-king/) - Cara King is a Melbourne-based illustrator and graphic designer. She has illustrated around 10 books since 2016, published both traditionally and for self-publishing authors. Cara enjoys painting in watercolour, scribbling with pencils and dabbles in a bit of digital art too. She has a love of nature, travel and animals and shares her home with
- [Emily Brewin](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2024/02/emily-brewin/) - Emily Brewin is a Melbourne author, copywriter, and learning designer. Her first novel, Hello, Goodbye, was published in 2017 and her second, Small Blessings, in 2019. A Way Home is her first YA novel. Her short stories have appeared in anthologies: Into Your Arms: Nick Cave’s Songs Reimagined by Fremantle Press, We’ll Stand In That
- [<em>Big, Weird, Lonely Hearts</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/10/big-weird-lonely-hearts/) - by Allen C. Jones PB 224 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781922858344 | $24.99 Short Fiction | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | November 2023 Distributed by NewSouth Books One part absurd humor, one part social commentary, Big, Weird, Lonely Hearts throws the most unlikely couples into bed together. This hilarious book includes
- [<em>Strangely Enough</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/10/strangely-enough/) - edited by Gillian Hagenus PB 240 | 198 x 129 ISBN: 9781922858313 | $24.99 Short Fiction | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | November 2023 Distributed by NewSouth Books Neglected by society, a group of caravanning 60-somethings encounter a place where time stops. A baby swims in a witch’s cauldron. A statue of Jesus
- [Gillian Hagenus](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/10/gillian-hagenus/) - Gillian Hagenus is a writer, editor and book devourer living and working on Kaurna land in South Australia. Her short fiction has appeared in various journals across Australia, including Voiceworks, SWAMP, Social Alternatives and Aniko Press, and internationally in The Antigonish Review. She has a Masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide,
- [Allen C. Jones](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/10/allen-c-jones/) - Allen C. Jones is an award-winning writer from California. He received an MFA in poetry from the University of New Mexico and a PhD in English from University of Louisiana. He has lived and taught in Spain, Mexico, Korea & China, and presently serves as associate professor of literature and culture at the University of
- [<em>Mountain Arrow</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/09/mountain-arrow/) - by Rachel Hennessy PB 368 | 198 x 128 | ISBN: 9781925227741 $19.99 | Young Adult | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | November 2020 Distributed by NewSouth Books The second book in The Burning Days series The River People and the Mountain People have survived for another season. But at what cost? Pandora
- [<em>River Stone</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2019/03/river-stone/) - by Rachel Hennessy PB 368 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781925227499 $19.99 | YA Fiction | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | May 2019 Distributed by NewSouth Books 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
- [<em>Polluted Sex</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/10/polluted-sex/) - by Lauren Foley PB 240 | 198 x 129 ISBN: 9781922858214 | $24.99 Short Fiction | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | October 2023 Distributed by NewSouth Books A pregnant woman takes the ferry to the UK. A fractious intimate relationship develops between an Irish woman, an English man, and her girlfriend. Two ungendered
- [<em>The Weaver</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/10/the-weaver/) - by Melanie Kanicky PB 352 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781922858283 | $19.99 Young Adult | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | October 2023 Distributed by NewSouth Books In a remote village, bordered by woods and an endless winter, Saatcha lives in the attic of her ailing father’s blacksmithery. As her father’s health
- [<em>Raised by Moths</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/10/raised-by-moths/) - by Charlie Archbold and Michelle Conn HB 32 | 230 x 270 | ISBN: 9781922858184 | $29.99 Picture Book | MidnightSun Publishing | October 2023 Distributed by NewSouth Books Willow jumps on the Ferris Wheel and is intrigued to see a boy surrounded by moths. As they travel high above the fairground he tells her
- [<em>City Knife</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/10/city-knife/) - by Rachel Hennessy PB 344 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781925227970 | $19.99 Young Adult | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | September 2023 Distributed by NewSouth Books The chimera of the city are on the hunt. After years of being individually slaughtered, they have come together to make war on Pandora and
- [Lauren Foley](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/10/lauren-foley/) - Lauren Foley is a Next Generation Artist in Literature with the Arts Council of Ireland. Her work is published by Influx Press, gorse, Head of Zeus, The Los Angeles Review, No Alibis, The Irish Times and Overland and has been shortlisted for The Barbellion Prize and The Irish Book Awards.
- [Melanie Kanicky](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/10/melanie-kanicky/) - Melanie Kanicky is a Melbourne-based author. Born in the Yarra Valley, Melanie has a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Film & Television) from Deakin University, and is currently completing her Master’s Degree in Writing & Literature with a focus on creative writing. Outside of her studies, Melanie currently manages a bookstore, where she delights in sharing
- [Charlie Archbold](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/10/charlie-archbold/) - Charlie Archbold is a writer and educator. She has worked in Australia, the UK, and in Indonesia. Her middle grade novel The Sugarcane Kids and the Red Bottomed Boat won the 2022 Readings Children’s Prize. It was shortlisted for the Text Prize and was a 2023 CBCA Notable book. Charlie’s debut YA novel Mallee Boys
- [Michelle Conn](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/10/michelle-conn/) - Michelle Conn is a children’s book illustrator and author who lives in the coastal town of Torquay, Victoria. She combines watercolour and pencil with digital illustration to create worlds filled with wonder and emotion. Michelle has a Bachelor of Design from The College of Fine Arts in Sydney and has worked as a graphic designer
- [Rachel Hennessy](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2019/03/rachel-hennessy/) - Rachel Hennessy is the award-winning author of five novels of contemporary fiction: The Quakers (Wakefield Press, 2008), The Heaven I Swallowed (Wakefield Press, 2013)), and the three books in The Burning Days trilogy: River Stone (MidnightSun, 2019), Mountain Arrow (MidnightSun, 2020) and now City Knife. Her first novel, about a group of obsessive teenagers, was
- [Book Club Questions - <em>The Breaking</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2021/03/book-club-questions-the-breaking/) - The Breaking - Book Club Conversation Starters (pdf, 451 kb)
- [Book Club Questions - <em>Tank Water</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2021/10/book-club-questions-tank-water/) - Tank Water - Book Club Questions (pdf, 230 kb)
- [Book Club Questions - <em>When Dark Roots Hunt</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/09/book-club-questions-when-dark-roots-hunt/) - When Dark Roots Hunt - Book Club Questions (pdf, 1.4 Mb)
- [Teacher Notes - <em>When Dark Roots Hunt</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/09/teacher-notes-when-dark-roots-hunt/) - Teachers' Notes for When Dark Roots Hunt (pdf, 1.4 Mb) Teachers' Notes for When Dark Roots Hunt (pdf, 1.4 Mb)
- [We are Reopening Submissions!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/08/we-are-reopening-submissions/) - Submissions will from now on only be accepted from the 1st to the 7th of each month, with submissions reopening from the 1st of September until the 7th of September 2023. Submissions will then be closed again until the 1-7st of October. So you have a week of every month to submit. Please note, any
- [<em>Medieval Monsters and Other Creatures</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/07/medieval-monsters-and-other-creatures/) - by Timothy Ide HB 72 | 245 x 280 | ISBN: 9781922858177 | $34.99 Picture book for all ages MidnightSun Publishing | November 2023 Distributed by NewSouth Books Take a monstrous journey through the Middle Ages to discover creatures both familiar and unfamiliar. Explore the hazards of medieval life at the claws, paws and fangs
- [Timothy Ide](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/03/timothy-ide/) - Timothy Ide is an Adelaide-based illustrator. He is best known locally for his work as a sketch artist for the TV News, capturing some of South Australia’s most notorious cases over the last thirty years. Timothy has also illustrated a number of children’s books, one of which, Tom the Outback Mailman written by Kristin Weidenbach
- [Teacher Notes - <em>This</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/07/teacher-notes-this/) - Teachers' Notes for This (pdf, 548 kb)
- [<em>The Quest for the Galleon of Time</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/07/the-quest-for-the-galleon-of-time/) - by Tanya Hunter PB 208 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781922858191 | $17.99 Middle-grade | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | August 2023 Distributed by NewSouth Books The year is 1738 and eleven-year-old Tobias Crane is forced to leave his home to work as a ship’s lad on a trading galleon. Once onboard,
- [Tanya Hunter](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/07/tanya-hunter/) - Tanya Hunter’s love of adventure stories began as a child living in Nottingham, England, when she regularly explored the same countryside as the fabled Robin Hood. A former primary school teacher, Tanya has been a police officer for nearly twenty-five years. She is also a proud ambassador for Multiple Sclerosis QLD and has a passion
- [<em>This</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/07/this/) - by Lazaros Zigomanis PB 368 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781922858146 | $19.99 Young Adult | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | August 2023 Distributed by NewSouth Books I don’t get this. I’m fifteen! And in Year 10! I don’t have anything to worry about. But when I wake up one night, terrified,
- [<em>Missing Pieces</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/05/missing-pieces/) - by Jennifer Mackenzie Dunbar PB 304 | 234 x 153 | ISBN: 9781922858092 | $32.99 Novel | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | June 2023 Distributed by NewSouth Books Inspired by the 1831 discovery of a hoard of priceless chess pieces on a remote Scottish Island, Missing Pieces tells the story of four women
- [<em>Timefire</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/07/timefire/) - by Nean McKenzie PB 200 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781922858030 | $17.99 Middle-grade | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | July 2023 Distributed by NewSouth Books In the scorching summer of 2033, Gilbert Black is accused of being a firebug, just like his mother was thirteen years previously. That night a fire
- [<em>Alice’s Shoe</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/07/alices-shoe/) - Written by Julie Thorndyke and illustrated by Jennifer Harrison HB 32 | 297 x 210 | ISBN: 9781922858139 | $29.99 Picture Book | MidnightSun Publishing | July 2023 Distributed by NewSouth Books A country child, Alice ran barefoot. On smooth waxed floorboards, over dusty clay in the yard, through icy water in the creek… she
- [<em>Mizuto and the Wind</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/05/mizuto-and-the-wind/) - written by Kaye Baillie illustrated by Luisa Gioffre-Suzuki PB 32 | 230 x 260 | ISBN: 9781922858023 | $29.99 Picture Book | MidnightSun Publishing | June 2023 Distributed by NewSouth Books Mizuto is a young boy living an ordinary life in Japan until one day, something extraordinary happens. Following a deadly tsunami, Mizuto’s father is
- [Teacher Notes - <em>Alice's Shoe</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/07/teacher-notes-alices-shoe/) - Teachers' Notes for Alice's Shoe (pdf, 690 kb)
- [Mike Dumbleton](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/02/mike-dumbleton/) - Mike Dumbleton is an award-winning picture book writer with 10 ‘Notable Books’ selected by the Children’s Book Council of Australia. His book, Muddled-up Farm, was the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year, 2004, and Cat was a CBCA Honour Book, 2008. Additionally, Anisa’s Alphabet gained international recognition as a White Ravens reading recommendation (2021
- [<em>Anisa's Alphabet</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/02/anisas-alphabet/) - 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
- [Teacher Notes - <em>Mizuto and the Wind</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/07/teacher-notes-mizuto-and-the-wind/) - Teachers' Notes for Mizuto and the Wind (pdf, 748 kb)
- [Teacher Notes - <em>Timefire</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/07/teacher-notes-timefire/) - Teachers' Notes for Timefire (pdf, 206 kb)
- [Julie Thorndyke](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/07/julie-thorndyke/) - Julie Thorndyke is a graduate of the University of Sydney Master of Creative Writing program, Sydney writer Julie Thorndyke’s two collections of tanka poetry, Rick Rack and Carving Granite, were published by Ginninderra Press. Editor of Eucalypt: a tanka journal since 2017, Julie also writes fiction and other poetry forms. Her debut novel for adults,
- [Nean McKenzie](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/07/nean-mckenzie/) - Nean McKenzie is a children’s writer and optometrist who lives in western Melbourne. Originally from Bendigo, Nean lived in New Zealand, Europe and North East Africa before returning to Victoria. She lives with her family and a cat called Lemonade who purrs, even when nervous. Nean has had three middle-grade novels out with MidnightSun Publishing:
- [Kaye Baillie](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/05/kaye-baillie/) - Kaye Baillie is a writer of fiction and non-fiction children’s picture books. Kaye began writing stories and making books during the long, hot summer holidays on the orchard where she grew up in Victoria. With her sister, she sat at the kitchen table coming up with ideas and adding her own (not very good) illustrations.
- [Luisa Gioffre-Suzuki](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/05/luisa-gioffre-suzuki/) - Luisa Gioffre-Suzuki is a professional illustrator, artist and teacher based in Victoria. After spending over a decade in Japan, her personal style has developed with influences from vibrant Japanese culture and is underpinned by her Fine Art training and love of color. Luisa uses a variety of mixed media including inks, watercolor, acrylic, pastel, pen
- [Hannah Sommerville](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/02/hannah-sommerville/) - Hannah Sommerville is an award-winning picture book illustrator from the South Coast of NSW. With over a decade of experience in illustration, Hannah has now illustrated more than a dozen picture books. In 2022 her book Jetty Jumping, written by Andrea Rowe, published by Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing, was awarded the CBCA Book of the
- [<em>Vanishing</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2018/11/vanishing/) - 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
- [<em>The Day We Built the Bridge</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2019/02/the-day-we-built-the-bridge/) - 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
- [Jennifer Mackenzie Dunbar](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/05/jennifer-mackenzie-dunbar/) - Jennifer Mackenzie Dunbar writes novels and short stories drawing on her love of history, music and mythology to explore the stories left untold in conventional historical accounts. Her short story The Man Who Rowed Away was published in the anthology Crush: stories about love (MidnightSun Publishing, 2017) and she self-published her debut novel Vivaldi’s Lost
- [<em>When Dark Roots Hunt</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/05/when-dark-roots-hunt/) - by Zena Shapter PB 400 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781922858061 | $19.99 Young Adult | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | 20 May 2023 Distributed by NewSouth Books Don’t go out onto the lake. Wyann trees search the shallows to spear passing prey with their roots. Giant water-ants hunt anything that moves
- [Teacher Notes - <em>Satin</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/02/teacher-notes-satin/) - Teachers' Notes for Satin (pdf, 714 kb)
- [<em>Satin</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/02/satin/) - Written by Sophie Masson, illustrated by Lorena Carrington HB 32 | 240 x 240 | $29.99 | ISBN: 9781922858016 | March 2023 Picture Book | MidnightSun Publishing | Distributed by NewSouth Books Every morning early, when no-one’s about, Satin slips out of the forest and walks along the sleepy sunrise streets, looking for blue… He’s
- [Submissions Temporarily Closed](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2023/02/submissions-temporarily-closed/) - Due to the overwhelming number of submissions, MidnightSun has regretfully decided to close our submissions for a few months until we have had time to look at the hundreds of submissions that are currently waiting to be read. It isn't fair for you to have to wait so long for a reply and this is
- [<em>Peace, Love and Khaki Socks</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2013/01/peace-love-and-khaki-socks/) - by Kim Lock Currently out of stock. We apologise for any inconvenience. One sultry October morning in Darwin, hemp-wearing army wife Amy Silva grips a trembling fist around two pink lines on a plastic stick. Struggling to come to terms with her rampant fertility, disillusioned with a haughty obstetrician, and infuriated by an inordinate amount
- [Teacher Notes - <em>Something About Alaska</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2022/10/teacher-notes-something-about-alaska/) - Teachers' Notes for Something About Alaska (pdf, 830 kb)
- [<em>Something About Alaska</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2022/08/something-about-alaska/) - by J. A. Cooper PB 224 | 198 x 128 | $19.99 ISBN: 9780987380975 | September 2022 Young Adult | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing Distributed by NewSouth Books ‘It’s a wicked cold, the Alaska winter, and can kill a man in a second…’ Nearing 15, Zac Greene travels to Alaska to re-connect with
- [<em>Her Death Was Also Water</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2022/09/her-death-was-also-water/) - by Allen C. Jones PB 368 | 234 x 153 | $29.99 ISBN: 9781925227918 | November 2022 Novel | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing Distributed by NewSouth Books A mixture of apocalypse, high-seas adventure, and otherworldliness, Her Death Was Also Water tells the story of seven people trying to survive on a small boat
- [<em>Wild Bush Days</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2022/07/wild-bush-days/) - Written by Penny Harrison, illustrated by Virginia Gray HB 32 | 210 x 295 | $29.99 | ISBN: 9780987380906 August 2022 | Picture Book | MidnightSun Publishing Distributed by NewSouth Books Jessie Hickman was Australia’s bold, but little-known, Lady Bushranger. Raised in the circus during the early 1900s, she later turned to a life of
- [<em>Random Acts of Unkindness</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2022/06/random-acts-of-unkindness/) - by Anna Mandoki PB 352 | 234 x 153 | $29.99 | IBSN: 9780987226587 July 2022 | Fiction | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing Distributed by NewSouth Books In an all-too-recognisable Melbourne of the near future, the lives of three very different women become intertwined. Emily is a researcher at the University, carrying out
- [J. A. Cooper](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2022/08/j-a-cooper/) - Years ago, James Cooper travelled the world over and once spent three months tending sled dogs in Alaska. His work as a teacher took him from southern England to the remote Australian outback, and he completed his Ph.D. while living in a tin shed on 40 acres. Nowadays, his adventures mostly take place on the
- [Penny Harrison](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2022/07/penny-harrison/) - Penny Harrison has always lived in a world of stories. A journalist for more than 20 years, her work has appeared in a variety of leading magazines, newspapers and journals. Penny is the author of acclaimed picture books such as Extraordinary and the CBCA Notable Me & My Boots. Wild Bush Days is the story
- [Virginia Gray](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2022/07/virginia-gray/) - Born on Kangaroo Island in South Australia, Virginia developed at an early age a keen appreciation of nature in all its forms. Her family then moved to Adelaide where she continued her schooling, later training as a fashion illustrator. Moving to the UK, Virginia worked in London for many years as a fashion illustrator for
- [Anna Mandoki](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2022/06/anna-mandoki/) - Anna Mandoki is an Australian author and artist. She was born in the UK and lived and worked in London and Budapest before making her home in Melbourne, on beautiful Wurundjeri woi wurrung country. Anna has a Bachelor degree in Psychology from the University of York and a Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing from
- [<em>Tank Water</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2021/09/tank-water/) - by Michael Burge PB 300 | 234 x 153 | ISBN: 9781925227888 | $29.99 Novel | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | October 2021 Distributed by NewSouth Books James Brandt didn’t look back when he got away from his rural hometown as a teenager. Now, he’s returned to Kippen for the first time in
- [Scott Pearce](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2022/05/scott-pearce/) - Scott Pearce is originally from Mooroolbark, Victoria. He received his PhD from Deakin University in 2016 and has published his academic research in journals and books, with a focus on the role of race and gender in the Western and Weird Western film/television genres. His first novel Faded Yellow by the Winter was published in
- [<em>The Rider on the Bridge</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2022/05/the-rider-on-the-bridge/) - by Scott Pearce PB 192 | 234 x 153 | $29.99 ISBN: 9780987226556 | 18 May 2022 Fiction | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing Distributed by NewSouth Books ‘It is a good story, although I cannot say it is true. Like most stories I suppose there is some truth in it, but the absence
- [<em>The Rat-Catcher's Apprentice</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2022/02/the-rat-catchers-apprentice/) - by Maggie Jankuloska PB 192 | 198 x 128 | ISBN: 9781925227949 | $17.99 Middle-grade fiction | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | March 2022 Distributed by NewSouth Books It’s 1665. Rats have infested homes and alleys in Marie Perrin’s provincial French town. Twelve-year-old Marie is set to become a maid, although she hungers
- [<em>Xenoflight</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2022/04/xenoflight/) - by Nean McKenzie PB 240 pages | 198 x 128 | $17.99 IBSN: 9780987226518 | May 2022 Middle-Grade Fiction Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing Distributed by NewSouth Books Apart from her flying pet ferret Fernando and her auntie Carla, 13-year-old Nessa Santiago is alone. Her mother died in a circus accident and she has
- [Teacher Notes - <em>The Rat-Catcher's Apprentice</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2022/02/teacher-notes-the-rat-catchers-apprentice/) - Teachers' Notes for The Rat-Catcher's Apprentice (pdf, 399 kb)
- [Maggie Jankuloska](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2022/02/maggie-jankuloska/) - Maggie Jankuloska was born in Ohrid, Macedonia. She has worked as a teacher/tutor in numerous settings. Maggie was one of the recipients of the 2018 Maurice Saxby Creative Writing Program. Her short fiction and non-fiction pieces have appeared in: The Age/Sydney Morning Herald, SBS Voices, Award Winning Australian Writing, n-SCRIBE and more. In 2020 she
- [Book Cover Design Competition](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2021/08/book-cover-design-competition/) - Book Cover Design Competition MidnightSun Publishing is on the hunt for Australian creatives to design covers for two of our upcoming novels. Whether you are currently studying, new to the field, or an experienced designer, we would love to see what ideas you come up with. This is a unique opportunity to have your work
- [Zanesh Catkin](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/05/zanesh-catkin/) - Zanesh Catkin was horribly disfigured in a childhood accident; as a result he spent his early life hidden in attics. He was taken in by a kind family from Minnesota, who offered a loving home and some plastic surgery. Later, they moved to Australia and the confusion really set in.
- [Teacher Notes - <em>The Colour of Music</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2021/07/teacher-notes-the-colour-of-music/) - Teachers' Notes for The Colour of Music (pdf, 54 kb)
- [Teacher Notes - <em>The Lanternist</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2021/07/teacher-notes-the-lanternist/) - Teachers' Notes for The Lanternist (pdf, 135 kb)
- [Amanda Hickie](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2014/10/amanda-hickie/) - Amanda Hickie has always been interested in science, literature and ethical questions, annoying her scripture teacher at the age of ten by asking if it was immoral to lie to a murderer. Despite a passion for writing, she studied Computer Science — but she quickly recovered. A change of lifestyle when she and her family
- [Lynette Washington](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2014/11/lynette-washington/) - Lynette Washington is a short story writer, editor and teacher of creative and professional writing. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide. Her stories have been published widely and in 2014 she edited the story collection, Breaking Beauty. In 2017 she co-edited the story collection, Crush. Her debut novel, Plane
- [Jane Jolly](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2015/04/jane-jolly/) - After being a classroom teacher for 35 years, Jane Jolly now works part-time in the Resource Centre at Eastern Fleurieu School teaching creative writing and immersing classes in literature. Jane has had three Notable picture books in the Children’s Book Council Australia Book of the Year awards, one CBCA Shortlisted and two CBCA Honour books.
- [Z F Kingbolt](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2016/10/z-f-kingbolt/) - Z.F. Kingbolt has had a varied career including lawyer, scientist, engineer, journalist, biologist and teacher, so it took a while to discover that writing books was the best thing ever. A slitherphobe, Kingbolt hates snakes and burnt toast, but loves gaming, technology, geology and skateboarding. MidnightSun Publishing published his/her/their novel Into Torden in November 2016.
- [Jennifer Harrison](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/03/jennifer-harrison/) - Jennifer Harrison lives in Adelaide with her son Nathaniel. Since leaving university she has worked as a graphic designer, commercial artist and art director. Her illustrations have been commissioned for book covers, magazines and packaging for overseas and local markets and she has exhibited in Adelaide galleries. MidnightSun published her children's book Olivia's Voice in
- [D M Cameron](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2018/05/d-m-cameron/) - Originally an actress, debut novelist D.M. Cameron is an AWGIE nominated radio dramatist, award-winning playwright and celebrated short film writer. She received funding to begin work on her first novel and was then selected for a Varuna residency to further develop this initial draft into what became Beneath the Mother Tree. www.dmcameron.com
- [S. J. Morgan](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2018/10/s-j-morgan/) - S.J. Morgan grew up in the UK and arrived in Australia many years ago, via a twelve-month round-the-world air ticket. She lived in New Zealand for ten years before settling in South Australia. In her former life she was an Occupational Therapist, but she now writes full-time. She writes across several genres and has won
- [Samantha Tidy](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2019/02/samantha-tidy/) - Samantha Tidy is a writer of children’s, young adult and adult fiction. She has a Masters in Creative Writing and is the author of Cappuccino Diva, The Blue Polar Bear and The Flying Dream. Her most recent novel for adults, The Happiness Jar, won the ACT Writing and Publishing Award for Fiction, among several other
- [Fiona Burrows](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2019/02/fiona-burrows/) - After completing her BA and PhD in literature at UWA, Fiona Burrows is now focusing on her first love, children’s picture books. She has had work published in journals including the Australian Poetry Journal, Writ Review and Westerly, exhibited in local galleries, and won awards and commendations including the Town of Mosman Park’s Open Art
- [Marian Matta](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/04/marian-matta/) - For decades Marian Matta wrote whatever was called for, from medical articles and historical research to film scripts, but she began concentrating on the short story format in 2006 after being inspired by Annie Proulx’s Brokeback Mountain. Her stories have subsequently appeared in several anthologies, but Life, Bound is her first solo collection. A grandmother,
- [Margaret Hickey](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/04/margaret-hickey/) - Margaret Hickey is an award-winning author and playwright from North East Victoria. Hickey’s work has been shortlisted and won prizes in many awards, including the AAWP/ASSF Short Story Award and the Grace Marion Award. Margaret holds a PhD in Creative writing and teaches English at La Trobe University. Margaret's short story collection, Rural Dreams, was
- [Steve Heron](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/07/steve-heron/) - Steve Heron’s passion is to write quality kids' books that will touch and tickle kids' hearts and foster hope. Steve's first series of picture books that focus on social issues were released in 2007. His first middle-grade novel Maximus was published by Serenity Press in 2018. Steve completed a Diploma of Children's Writing and Publishing
- [Benjamin Johnston](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/07/benjamin-johnston/) - Benjamin Johnston works as a mild-mannered architect by day but roams imaginary streets as a masked vigilante-illustrator by night. Add to this that he is also a husband and dad of two girls… and he is really looking forward to the day he might actually have enough time for everything he wants to get done.
- [Robert Moore](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/08/robert-moore/) - Robert Moore lives in Adelaide and is a published author of several children’s books and fiction as well as numerous poems, articles and short stories. He won the inaugural Feast Short Story Competition and was awarded a special commendation by AsthmaSA for his play Breathe Easy which was written and workshopped in conjunction with the
- [Lisa Tiffen](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2021/05/lisa-tiffen/) - Lisa Tiffen is a children’s picture book author, illustrator and composer. She has previously published a family of four quirky books; Grumps, Lovelies, Sorrows and Frights. A piano teacher for many years, Lisa has recently commenced writing orchestral music to accompany her books. Being able to combine her love of music, art and writing makes
- [Matt Ottley](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2021/05/matt-ottley/) - Matt Ottley is an award-winning multi-modal artist, working equally across the fields of literature, visual arts and music. Matt has had 37 picture books published and his work also appears in more than thirty nonfiction books. His awards include the CBCA Picture Book of the Year and both the Queensland & NSW Premier's Awards for
- [<em>The Lanternist</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2021/05/the-lanternist/) - by Stephen Orr, illustrated by Timothy Ide PB 400 | 198 x 128 | ISBN: 9781925227840 | $19.99 YA Fiction | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | July 2021 Distributed by NewSouth Books 1901. The slide clunks into the lantern, and Phantoms come alive on the wall. The father-and-son Magic Lantern team of Bert
- [<em>The Colour of Music</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2021/05/the-colour-of-music/) - Written by Lisa Tiffen, illustrated by Matt Ottley HB 32 | 210 x 297 | ISBN: 9781925227871 $29.99 | Picture book June 2021 | MidnightSun Publishing Distributed by NewSouth Books Molly can see the music. Colours flash brilliantly as she listens. The music takes her on a journey into places filled with colour, revealing connections
- [Stephen Orr](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2021/05/stephen-orr/) - Stephen Orr has published eight novels, a book of short stories, as well as essays, columns and other scribblings. Thankfully, he has never written a poem, ever. He has taught Science and English in Queensland, Victoria and South Australia and, to be honest, has learnt more in schools than he’s taught (especially how to get
- [<em>The Plastic Throne</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2021/04/the-plastic-throne/) - Written by Amani Uduman, illustrated by Kera Bruton HB 32 | 210 x 210 | ISBN: 9781925227802 $24.99 | Picture book MidnightSun Publishing | March 2021 Distributed by NewSouth Books Denver flushes all kinds of things down the toilet but never stops to think about what happens to them once they are gone. One night,
- [Amani Uduman](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2021/04/amani-uduman/) - Amani Uduman is a children’s author and primary school teacher from Melbourne. In addition to her teaching degree, Amani has graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Science, Health Promotion from Deakin University. She has numerous titles published by a non-profit organisation called Library for All, Australia, and her work has been included in many
- [Kera Bruton](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2021/04/kera-bruton/) - Kera Bruton lives on the south coast of New South Wales with her husband, two sons and Italian water dog Alfonzo. From a young age art has always been a major part of Kera’s life. Her previous careers saw her working as a special-effects make-up artist and milliner. Kera loves creating illustrations that allow the
- [<em>The Breaking</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/12/the-breaking/) - by Irma Gold PB 272 | 234 x 153 | ISBN: 9781925227819 | $29.99 Novel | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | March 2021 Distributed by NewSouth Books Hannah Bird has just arrived in Thailand. Disoriented and out of her depth, she meets Deven, a fierce and gutsy Australian expat who sweeps her into
- [<em>The Ghost Squad</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/11/the-ghost-squad/) - by Sophie Masson PB 448 | 198 x 128 | ISBN: 9781925227772 | $19.99 YA Fiction | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | February 2021 Distributed by NewSouth Books Imagine a world where all seems normal and yet nothing is — a world very much like our own, yet jarringly unlike. A world where
- [<em>Esmeralda's Nest</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/08/esmeraldas-nest/) - written by Robert Moore, illustrated by Mandy Foot HB 32 | 215 x 215 ISBN: 9781925227666 | $29.99 Picture book | October 2020 MidnightSun Publishing Distributed by NewSouth Books Each day Esmeralda collects a variety of objects and waddles down the hill. Everyone wonders why the Saddleback sow is carrying a bottle, fencing wire and
- [The Making of <em>Ling Li's Lantern</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/09/the-making-of-ling-lis-lantern/) - As an intern at MidnightSun Publishing, every day brings something different. No two books are the same and so neither is the publishing process. I have the wonderful opportunity to get a glimpse behind the curtain, so to speak, to be a small part of every process involved in taking a project from its genesis
- [<em>Life, Bound</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/04/life-bound/) - by Marian Matta PB 224 | 198 x 128 | ISBN: 9781925227710 | $27.99 Short story collection | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | October 2020 Distributed by NewSouth Books 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
- [<em>Rural Dreams</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/04/rural-dreams/) - by Margaret Hickey PB 224 | 198 x 128 | ISBN: 9781925227680 | $27.99 Short story collection | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | October 2020 Distributed by NewSouth Books Margaret Hickey’s Rural Dreams takes a look at life outside the big smoke, introducing us to the kind of characters you might expect in
- [<em>Ling Li's Lantern</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/07/ling-lis-lantern/) - Written by Steve Heron, illustrated by Benjamin Johnston HB 32 | 210 x 297 | ISBN: 9781925227673 | $29.99 Picture book | September 2020 MidnightSun Publishing Distributed by NewSouth Books After she is set a challenge to test her wisdom, Ling Li returns from the village marketplace with only a lantern to light her way.
- [<em>Mama Ocean</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/07/mama-ocean/) - Written by Jane Jolly, illustrated by Sally Heinrich HB 32 | 250 x 300 | ISBN: 9781925227659 $29.99 | Picture book MidnightSun Publishing | September 2020 Distributed by NewSouth Books Mama Ocean had eyes that sparkled, like the sunlight on the sea, and tresses which tumbled and trailed through the tides. But something is troubling
- [Open for Submissions!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/08/open-for-submissions/) - The month of August has arrived and MidnightSun is now open for submissions. Thank you for your patience. It’s great to be back! We have managed to read through the slush pile (when I say ‘we’ I really mean our amazing editor Alicia) so now we are looking for new work. We are especially interested
- [Teacher Notes - <em>Ling Li's Lantern</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/07/teacher-notes-ling-lis-lantern/) - Teachers' Notes for Ling Li's Lantern (pdf, 750 kb)
- [Teacher Notes - <em>Esmeralda's Nest</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/08/teacher-notes-esmeraldas-nest/) - Teachers' Notes for Esmeralda's Nest (pdf, 176 kb)
- [Teacher Notes - <em>Mama Ocean</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/07/teacher-notes-mama-ocean/) - Teachers' Notes for Mama Ocean (pdf, 128 kb)
- [<em>The Friendly Games</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/05/the-friendly-games/) - Written by Kaye Baillie, illustrated by Fiona Burrows HB 32 | 256 x 216 | ISBN: 9781925227642 $29.99 | Picture book MidnightSun Publishing | June 2020 Distributed by NewSouth Books In 1956 Melbourne hosted the Summer Olympic Games. Student John Wing was so proud of his country, one of the friendliest places on earth. But
- [Mandy Foot](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/08/mandy-foot/) - Mandy Foot's obsession with drawing animals began when she was two, with chalk, on her grandparents' pavement. Now as a best-selling children's book illustrator and author of over 20 books, her canvas has evolved and her studio is shared with her joined-at-the-hip Border Collies. An Ambassador for Raising Literacy Australia, Mandy shares her passion of
- [<em>Local Colour — Adelaide</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2015/11/local-colour-adelaide/) - by Sally Heinrich 32 Pages | 297 X 360 soft cover | ISBN 978-1-925227-06-2 | $24.99 | Non-Fiction | MidnightSun Publishing | Dec 2015 Join the colouring craze and learn a little about beautiful Adelaide and its surrounds while you unleash your creativity in bringing each of these intricate drawings to life with colour. Whether
- [Massive 30% Discount Sale!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/05/massive-30-discount-sale/) - COVID-19 SALE During this time of isolation, until the end of June 2020, MidnightSun has decided to offer an unprecedented 30% discount on our entire range of published books (currently in stock) if you order over $50 worth of books. Plus FREE shipping anywhere in Australia. All you have to do is apply the code
- [<em>Wild Gestures</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2016/10/wild-gestures/) - by Lucy Durneen PB 208 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781925227208 $24.99 | Short Stories | Also available as ebook $9.99 MidnightSun Publishing | Distributed by NewSouth A daughter flies into a painting to escape her overprotective mother. An exchange student sees green lights in the sky above South America and fears the worst.
- [<em>We. Are. Family.</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2016/07/we-are-family/) - by Paul Mitchell Kick the darkness until it bleeds Three generations are forced to confront the pervasive violence that hangs over them like a ghost, and the distances to which they have carried their forebears’ pain. We. Are. Family. is a sensitive and rugged episodic novel which ruminates on the damaging idea of Australian masculinity
- [<em>The Hum of Concrete</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2011/10/the-hum-of-concrete/) - by Anna Solding The Hum of Concrete is an evocative novel about a city and its people. Set in the multicultural city of Malmö, Sweden, The Hum of Concrete is the story of five people whose lives intersect. Consumed with despair, Palestinian Nassrin walks into the ocean with her baby in her arms. Susanna dares
- [<em>Plane Tree Drive</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/09/plane-tree-drive/) - by Lynette Washington PB 256 | 198 x 128 | ISBN: 9781925227345 $26.99 | Fiction | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | November 2017 Distributed by NewSouth Books 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
- [<em>Papa Sky</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/07/papa-sky/) - by Jane Jolly and Sally Heinrich HB 32 | 300 x 250 | ISBN 9781925227291 $27.99 | Picture book MidnightSun Publishing | October 2017 Distributed by NewSouth Books Another stunning picture book from the award-winning team who brought you One Step at a Time, Honour Book in the CBCA Awards 2016. Papa Sky sits where
- [<em>Pangamonium</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/05/pangamonium/) - by Zanesh Catkin Sometimes you have to get lost to find yourself Francis is a journalist looking for a big story in the tiny kingdom of Panga. He finds himself attempting to liberate a bunch of child slaves making sex toys for the West. Toss in an African pilgrim named Easter on a quest to
- [<em>One Step at a Time</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2014/05/one-step-at-a-time-2/) - One Step at a Time is a story about a boy, a baby elephant and a landmine. by Jane Jolly and Sally Heinrich 32 pages |300 x 250 hardback | ISBN 978-0-9873809-5-1 | $ 27.99 | Fiction | MidnightSun Publishing | March 2015 One Step at a Time is an exquisite picture book which tells
- [<em>Olivia's Voice</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/03/olivias-voice/) - written by Mike Lucas, Illustrated by Jennifer Harrison HB 32 | 210 x 297 | ISBN: 9781925227192 $26.99 | Picture book MidnightSun Publishing | March 2017 Distributed by NewSouth Books Today, like all days, Olivia wakes to a silent world. Outside her window, birds dance upon the branches of the giant gum tree. She follows
- [<em>No Neat Endings</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/02/no-neat-endings/) - by Dominic Carew PB 224 | 198 x 128 | ISBN: 9781925227611 | $27.99 Short story collection | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | February 2020 Distributed by NewSouth Books 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
- [<em>Message in a Sock</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2018/05/message-in-a-sock/) - 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
- [<em>King of the Outback</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/03/king-of-the-outback/) - From the award-winning writer/illustrator team who brought you Tom the Outback Mailman. by Kristin Weidenbach, Illustrated by Timothy Ide HB 32 | 260 x 290 | ISBN 9781925227246 $26.99 | Non-fiction picture book MidnightSun Publishing | May 2017 Distributed by NewSouth Books Sidney Kidman runs away from home at thirteen and travels to the outback
- [<em>Into Tordon</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2016/10/into-tordon/) - by Z.F. Kingbolt PB 256 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781925227147 $17.99 | Fiction Ages 8-14 | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | November 2016 Distributed by NewSouth Books Only champions dare to enter! Thirteen-year-old Beth has been waiting for weeks to play in the championship of her favourite online game, Tordon. Now
- [<em>I Would Dangle the Moon</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2019/03/i-would-dangle-the-moon/) - 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
- [<em>Hide</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2019/09/hide/) - by S.J. Morgan PB 320 | 153 x 234 | ISBN: 9781925227581 $32.99 | Fiction | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | November 2019 Distributed by NewSouth Books 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
- [<em>Heaven Sent</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2018/10/heaven-sent/) - by S.J. Morgan PB 336 | 198 x 128 | ISBN: 9781925227451 $19.99 | YA Fiction | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | October 2018 Distributed by NewSouth Books 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
- [<em>First Person Shooter</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2016/02/first-person-shooter/) - by Cameron Raynes PB 256 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781925227079 $24.99 | Fiction | Also available as an ebook MidnightSun Publishing | March 2016 Distributed by NewSouth Books Jayden lives with his father on the edge of a small country town. He stutters and is addicted to video games. His best friend Shannon
- [<em>Cryptosight</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2019/09/cryptosight/) - by Nean McKenzie PB 224 | 198 x 128 | ISBN: 9781925227536 $17.99 | Middle grade fiction | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | October 2019 Distributed by NewSouth Books 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
- [<em>Crush</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/08/crush/) - Edited by Simone Corletto, Amy T. Matthews, Jess M. Miller and Lynette Washington PB 368 | 198 x 128 | ISBN: 9781925227307 $26.99 | Fiction | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | September 2017 Distributed by NewSouth Books Bursting with affection, wit, loss, sex and a whole lot of love, the authors in this
- [<em>Beneath the Mother Tree</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2018/05/beneath-the-mother-tree/) - 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
- [<em>Born to Fly</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2019/08/born-to-fly/) - 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
- [<em>An Ordinary Epidemic</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2015/04/an-ordinary-epidemic/) - How far will a desperate mother go to keep her loved ones safe? by Amanda Hickie PB 384 | 198 x 129 | ISBN 978-1-925227-03-1 | $28.99 Fiction | MidnightSun Publishing | May 2015 Distributed by NewSouth Books Hannah is stuck in the middle of a deadly outbreak. As Sydney goes into lockdown, she attempts
- [<em>A Cardboard Palace</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/04/a-cardboard-palace/) - by Allayne L. Webster PB 144 | 198 x 128 | ISBN: 9781925227253 $17.99 | Fiction Ages 8-14 | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing | June 2017 Distributed by NewSouth Books Jorge lives in a shanty town on the outskirts of Paris. Bill, a controller, has an army of child thieves at his command—and
- [<em>Rock Star: The story of Reg Sprigg — an outback legend</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2014/03/rock-star-the-story-of-reg-sprigg-an-outback-legend/) - by Kristin Weidenbach Oil; uranium; geology; conservation; these are the catch-cries of our times and Reg Sprigg embodies them all. Reg is regarded as the greatest geologist of his generation and one of the best Australia has produced. By the age of 30 he had discovered the oldest fossils in the world and some of
- [Teacher Notes - <em>The Friendly Games</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/04/teacher-notes-the-friendly-games/) - Teachers' Notes for The Friendly Games (pdf, 100 kb) and the accompanying pdf of John Wing's letters: John Ian Wing letters (pdf, 3Mb)
- [High Country Book Club review <em>Hide</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/04/high-country-book-club-review-hide/) - A big thank you to The Makers Shed, High Country Book Club and to Michael Burge Media for selecting S. J. Morgan’s terrific thriller HIDE as their recent book club read. Love the preview Michael has made for the book. Thanks for supporting Aussie authors. See it at: https://www.facebook.com/MakersShedGlenInnes/videos/241854090344323/?t=0
- [Meet the Authors of <i>Crush</i>: Ryan Scott](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/08/meet-the-authors-of-crush-ryan-scott/) - The next in our series of Q&As with the authors of Crush, an anthology of stories about love, is Ryan Scott. Get to know Ryan and read an excerpt from his story 'The Castle, the Tower and the Other Castle'. Can you give us a bit of background about yourself? How did you come to writing?
- [Meet the Authors of <i>Crush</i>: Marian Matta](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/08/meet-the-authors-of-crush-marian-matta/) - Next in our series of Crush author Q&As is Marian Matta. Read on to hear a bit about her writing process and for a sneak peak of her story 'Close to the People'. Can you give us a bit of background about yourself? How did you come to writing? Praise be to Annie Proulx! I've
- [New Submission Guidelines](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2018/11/new-submission-guidelines/) - We have recently updated our submission policy! MidnightSun is always accepting submissions. Please send a digital copy of your manuscript to submissions@midnightsunpublishing.com Please include a subject line stating your name, the title of your manuscript, and its genre (eg: Jane Doe, ‘High Tea’, Picture Book). Please attach your manuscript as a Word document titled, ‘Name:
- [Another Guest Post by Fern](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2018/10/another-guest-post-by-fern/) - Hi all, it’s Fern again, MidnightSun’s favourite intern. Also their only intern, but I digress. In my brief time at the company I’ve mostly worked with Heaven Sent, the YA novel by S.J. Morgan. My tasks have been to find reviewers and speaking with writers’ festivals to invite Sue along. But that cannot begin to
- [Guest Post by Our Intern Fern](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2018/08/guest-post-by-our-intern-fern/) - I’m Fern, the second intern to grace the halls of MidnightSun. I’m in my final year of studying Creative Writing at Adelaide University, and I’ve been fortunate to have the chance to look inside the world of publishing. I’m the sort of oddball who researches as much as they can about any given situation before
- [Meet the Authors of <i>Crush</i>: Katherine Arguile](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/09/meet-the-authors-of-crush-katherine-arguile/) - We've reached the end of our series of Q&As with the authors of Crush! In our final installment, get to know Katherine Arguile and read an excerpt of her story 'Utaki'. Can you give us a bit of background about yourself? How did you come to writing? I’m half-Japanese, half-English, born and raised in Tokyo.
- [Meet the Authors of <i>Crush</i>: Lauren Foley](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/09/meet-the-authors-of-crush-lauren-foley/) - The latest in our series of Q&As with the authors of Crush is Lauren Foley. Read on to find out more about her writing process and to read an exceprt of her story 'This One Time...' Can you give us a bit of background about yourself? How did you come to writing? I’m Irish, and
- [Meet the Authors of <i>Crush</i>: Elaine Cain](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/09/meet-the-authors-of-crush-elaine-cain/) - The latest in our series of Q&As with the authors of Crush is Elaine Cain. Read on to hear more about her writing and to read an excerpt of her story 'Glitch'. Can you give us a bit of background about yourself? How did you come to writing? I often had my head in a
- [Meet the Authors of <i>Crush</i>: Michele Fairbairn](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/08/meet-the-authors-of-crush-michele-fairbairn/) - Next up in our series of Q&As with the authors of Crush is Michele Fairbairn. Read on to get to know her and her writing process, and to see an excerpt from her story 'Fettucancé'. Can you give us a bit of background about yourself? How did you come to writing? At the risk of
- [Meet the Authors of <i>Crush</i>: Susan Midalia](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/08/meet-the-authors-of-crush-susan-midalia/) - Crush, an anthology of stories about love, brings together the work of emerging and established writers from around the world. Get to know some of the fantastic authors featured in the collection in this series of Q&As. First we have Susan Midalia and an excerpt from her short story 'Perspectives on Love'. Can you give
- [Anna Solding](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2011/10/anna-solding/) - Anna holds a PhD in Creative Writing from The University of Adelaide, has judged the HarperCollins Varuna Award and co-founded the literary journals Wet Ink and Animate Quarterly. She is an active member of the literary community. Over the years, she has worked as a photographer, translator, editor, language teacher and has written more reviews
- [In the Media 2012](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/12/in-the-media-2012/) - 27 August 2012 There is a lot happening around the MidnightSun headquarters. Anna Solding was interviewed by Cath Kenneally at Radio Adelaide's Arts Breakfast on Saturday 18 August and Zanesh Catkin was interviewed on the same program a week later, on Saturday 25 August. You can listen to Anna's interview here. Zanesh's interview will soon
- [Two New Short Story Collections](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/04/two-new-short-story-collections/) - MidnightSun Publishing is excited to announce the joint release of two short story collections: Life, Bound by Marian Matta and Rural Dreams by Margaret Hickey. These debut collections showcase two vibrant and original voices in Australian short fiction. The stories in these collections are sharp, funny, insightful and they linger with you long after you
- [Interview with S. J. Morgan](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/02/interview-with-s-j-morgan/) - Here is a fabulous interview with S. J. Morgan about her menacing crime thriller Hide. It will be available as an audio book this year and we are so proud! https://www.sistersincrime.org.au/you-can-run-but-can-you-hide-qa-with-s-j-morgan/
- [<em>Born to Fly</em> at Edinburgh Airshow](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2019/11/born-to-fly-edinburgh-airshow/) - What a huge weekend Beverley McWilliams and Timothy Ide had at the Edinburgh Airshow where they signed copies of Born to Fly, Tim showed off his talent as an artist and they both talked all things Harry Butler with aviation fans. The book really is a perfect Christmas present for inquisitive youngsters.
- [<em>River Stone</em> - the process](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2019/07/river-stone-2/) - Guest Post by Rachel Hennessy, author of River Stone I started writing River Stone in 2015 because, as I talked about at the launch, it helped me re-find joy in writing. I had been living in Melbourne since 2009 but I had lost track of myself as a writer. Writing had slipped into that region
- [Launching <em>The Day We Built the Bridge</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2019/05/launching-the-day-we-built-the-bridge/) - The Month (or more) We Launched the Bridge Book! Guest blog post by Samantha Tidy, author of The Day We Built the Bridge What a book birthday! This year, I have launched The Day We Built the Bridge in no less than 5 cities! Now that the dust has settled, and the second shipment of
- [What is Cryptozoology?](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2019/11/what-is-cryptozoology/) - Nean McKenzie, author of Cryptosight, shares some of her experiences of the publication of her first book, an adventure story for 8-14 year-olds. Staring into thick bush, full of shadows and tangled plants, I’m always aware there COULD be something in there that I don’t know about. It’s probably something I’ve heard of before. But
- [NSW Premier's History Awards](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2019/10/nsw-premiers-history-awards/) - We are thrilled that Message in a Sock has been shortlisted for the NSW Premier's History Awards. Congratulations to author Kaye Baillie and illustrator Narelda Joy. Narelda attended the awards ceremony and had a splendid time. Blog post from Kaye Baillie, the
- [NZbooklovers Reviews <em>Hide</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2019/12/nzbooklovers-reviews-hide/) - The great reviews of S.J. Morgan's Hide keep coming. Thank you NZbooklovers for this one. Hide will make a perfect Christmas gift for anyone who likes books with suspense and that special just-one-more-chapter-quality. https://www.nzbooklovers.co.nz/post/hide-by-s-j-morgan
- [Carmel Bird Reviews <em>No Neat Endings</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/01/carmel-bird-reviews-no-neat-endings/) - Fabulous to see four collections reviewed by the wonderful Carmel Bird in the Sydney Morning Herald, one of them being Dominic Carew’s No Neat Endings. Yay! See the review here.
- [New Year - New Books](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2019/03/new-year-new-books/) - The year is planned out for MidnightSun and it's full of exciting titles including a book for 8-12 year olds called Cryptosight. It's written by Nean McKenzie and it's her first book so we are extra excited to see it come to life. The cover design by Jenna Vincent is stunning and we are sure
- [Dominic Carew](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2020/02/dominic-carew/) - Dominic Carew is a lawyer and writer from Sydney. He has practised law in Sydney, London, Hong Kong and the Cayman Islands in leading global law firms and financial institutions. He has an MA in Creative Writing from UTS, for which he received an Outstanding Student Award. Dominic has won or been shortlisted for many
- [Teacher Notes - <em>One Step at a Time</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2014/11/teacher-notes-one-step-at-a-time/) - Teachers' Notes for One Step At A Time (pdf)
- [Teacher Notes - <em>First Person Shooter</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2015/12/teacher-notes-first-person-shooter/) - Teachers' Notes for First Person Shooter (pdf)
- [Teacher Notes - <em>Into Tordon</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2016/10/teacher-notes-into-tordon/) - Teachers' Notes for Into Tordon (pdf)
- [Teacher Notes - <em>Olivia's Voice</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/02/teacher-notes-olivias-voice/) - Teachers' Notes for Olivia's Voice (pdf)
- [Teacher Notes - <em>A Cardboard Palace</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/03/teacher-notes-a-cardboard-palace/) - Teachers' Notes for A Cardboard Palace (pdf)
- [Teacher Notes - <em>Papa Sky</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/08/teacher-notes-papa-sky/) - Teachers' Notes for Papa Sky (pdf)
- [Teacher Notes - <em>Message in a Sock</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2018/04/teacher-notes-message-in-a-sock/) - Teachers' Notes for Message in a Sock (pdf)
- [Teacher Notes - <em>Heaven Sent</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2018/07/teacher-notes-heaven-sent/) - Teachers' Notes for Heaven Sent (pdf)
- [Teacher Notes - <em>The Day We Built the Bridge</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2019/02/teacher-notes-the-day-we-built-the-bridge/) - Teachers' Notes for The Day We Built the Bridge (pdf)
- [Teacher Notes - <em>Born to Fly</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2019/07/teacher-notes-born-to-fly/) - Teachers' notes for Born to Fly (pdf)
- [Teacher Notes - <em>Cryptosight</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2019/07/teacher-notes-cryptosight/) - Teachers' Notes for Cryptosight (pdf)
- [Teacher Notes - <em>King of the Outback</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/08/teacher-notes-king-of-the-outback/) - Teachers' Notes for King of the Outback (pdf)
- [Lucy Durneen](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2016/10/lucy-durneen/) - Lucy Durneen lectures in English and Creative Writing in Plymouth, England, and is Assistant Editor of the literary journal Short Fiction. Her short stories, poetry and non-fiction have appeared in World Literature Today, The Manchester Review, The Letters Page, The Lightship Anthology and Litro, amongst other places. She has been shortlisted four times for the
- [Sneak Peek of <em>Pangamonium</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/05/sneak-peek-of-pangamonium/) - CHAPTER ONE Arrested Without Cause Some travel to find themselves—I was travelling to get lost. Panga seemed a perfect place to start. Ever since the monarchy of the tiny kingdom had been overwhelmed by a military regime, the ban on international telecommunications and the web meant that anyone was hard to pin down. Here I
- [Revealing the cover of <em>Breaking Beauty</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2014/07/breaking-beauty/) - Our amazing designer Kim Lock has been working very hard to deliver this stunning cover for MidnightSun's upcoming short story collection Breaking Beauty. Lynette Washington has expertly edited the project and now we can look forward to the fabulous Adelaide launch of this brilliant collection. It'll all be happening at the SA Writers' Centre from
- [Teaser Quotes for <em>Breaking Beauty</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2014/10/teaser-quotes-for-breaking-beauty/) - The countdown to the launch of Breaking Beauty has begun! To give you a taste of the beautiful stories to come, we have created a small sample per week to be posted on our Facebook page until the big day on Friday 7 November. Don't forget to book your spot at the Adelaide party: anna@midnightsunpublishing.com
- [One month to go!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2014/10/one-month-to-go/) - Today we are exactly one month away from the launch of Breaking Beauty and we're celebrating by sharing another quote from the collection. Have a beautiful week!
- [Teaser III](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2014/10/teaser-iii/) - Here is this week's teaser for Breaking Beauty. I hope you have booked your spot at the Adelaide launch as it's getting pretty close to capacity. Book now to avoid disappointment! Email RSVPs to anna@midnightsunpublishing.com
- [Are you curious about <em>Breaking Beauty</em> yet?](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2014/10/are-you-curious/) - Here is another lovely quote from Breaking Beauty. Great to see that so many people are coming to the launch of this exquisite collection. Looking forward to catching up with you all soon. Until then, enjoy the teaser.
- [Patrick Allington's launch speech for <em>We. Are. Family.</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2016/11/patrick-allingtons-launch-speech-for-we-are-family/) - Patrick Allington launched Paul Mitchell's We. Are. Family. with a terrific speech in Adelaide on Friday 9 September 2016. Several people have asked for the speech, so here it is, in all its glory: What can I tell you about Paul Mitchell’s We. Are. Family? … What I won’t do is introduce the characters or
- [Amber Moffat](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2019/03/amber-moffat/) - Amber Moffat is a writer and visual artist based in Western Australia. She believes that being able to share stories is the most magnificent thing about being human. Amber is originally from New Zealand and still has strong ties to her hometown of Dunedin. She is an experienced teacher and a fierce advocate for arts
- [Mike Lucas](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/03/mike-lucas/) - Mike Lucas is the author of several collections of humorous poetry for children and has had work published in anthologies and literary magazines. Originally from the UK, he now lives in Adelaide, where he works as an engineer and runs an independent book store with his wife, Becky. He has a passion for encouraging children
- [Narelda Joy](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2018/05/narelda-joy/) - Narelda Joy grew up in a creative household with an inspired mum and a large sewing room, which contained a plethora of goodies with which she could use to create. She continues to create anything in two or three dimensions including puppets, models, creatures and illustrations. She considers herself fortunate to be able to create
- [Exciting new acquisition](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/10/exciting-new-acquisition/) - MidnightSun acquires debut novel Beneath the Mother Tree MidnightSun has acquired world rights to playwright and radio dramatist D M Cameron’s debut novel Beneath the Mother Tree for publication in 2018. Beneath the Mother Tree is a ‘fast-paced’ mystery and love story set in an Australian town similar to the one in which Cameron grew
- [CBCA Awards](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2016/08/cbca-awards/) - MidnightSun Publishing is extremely honoured and proud that our first picture book, One Step at a Time written by Jane Jolly and illustrated by Sally Heinrich, has been chosen as an Honour Book in this year's Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Awards. You can read more about the book and the CBCA Awards in
- [<em>King of the Outback</em> Book Launch](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/05/king-of-the-outback-book-launch/) - MidnightSun launched Kristin Weidenbach's and Timothy Ide's gorgeous picture book King of the Outback yesterday. The hall was packed, the speech by Dyan Blacklock was strong and supportive, but most importantly the vibe was great! So many friendly faces in the crowd, many of them friends from the writing community. Thank you so much for
- [End of Year Fun for All](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/11/end-of-year-fun-for-all/) - We can't believe that November is here and Christmas is approaching. In Adelaide, Father Christmas has arrived with the Pageant and now there are only a few more opportunities to meet our writers before they take a well-earned rest. Zanesh Catkin and Anna Solding will be talking about queer aspects of their work in a
- [A Beautiful Review of <em>Olivia's Voice</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/05/a-beautiful-review-of-olivias-voice/) - 'Stunning, evocative, thought-provoking.' Another amazing review for Olivia's Voice. Congratulations Mike and Jennifer! It doesn't really get much better than that. http://thebottomshelf.edublogs.org/?s=OLIVIA%27S+VOICE
- [<em>Wild Gestures</em> wins Saboteur Award](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/05/wild-gestures-wins-saboteur-award/) - The MidnightSun team would like to congratulate Lucy Durneen on her win for best short story collection at the Saboteur Awards in the UK. We are so proud of her and of the collection, Wild Gestures, that is finding enthusiastic readers around the globe. Such wonderful news! http://sabotagereviews.com/2017/05/14/saboteur-awards-2017-the-results/ Hear what the award voters had to
- [Listen to Anna Solding here.](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/04/listen-to-anna-solding-here/) - MidnightSun author Anna Solding was interviewed on Radio Adelaide. Listen to what she has to say about writing, motherhood, intersex and multiculturalism.
- [Free copies of <em>The Hum of Concrete</em> as ebook!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/05/free-promotion/) - After the success of Anna Solding's book signing last week, we are in a very happy place and would like to offer the Kindle version of The Hum of Concrete for FREE. Starting tomorrow and lasting for three days only, Wednesday 2nd May until Friday 4 May 2012, The Hum of Concrete can be downloaded
- [Zanesh Catkin joins MidnightSun](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/05/zanesh-catkin-joins-midnightsun/) - Zanesh Catkin joins MidnightSun. Pangamonium will launch at the SA Writers' Centre in Adelaide on Friday 20th July at 7pm.
- [Successful Meet the Author session at Mostly Books](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/06/mostly-books/) - The turn-out was great at Anna Solding's first ever Meet the Author session at Mostly Books.
- [Fantastic reviews make us beam with pride](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/07/fantastic-reviews-make-us-beam-with-pride/) - Anna Solding's novel The Hum of Concrete keeps getting wonderful reviews. On a cold and wintry Adelaide Monday like today, we can only say how proud we are of Anna and her book. Two glowing reviews in one day. The week couldn't have started any better: https://rochfordstreetreview.com/2012/07/16/a-sparkling-constellation-kate-pardey-reviews-the-hum-of-concrete-by-anna-solding/ http://thischarmingmum.com/2012/07/16/review-the-hum-of-concrete-by-anna-solding/
- [This exhilarating publishing life...](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/08/this-exhilarating-publishing-life/) - Suddenly everything seems to be happening at the same time here in MidnightSun world. Anna Solding was interviewed this morning on Arts Breakfast at Radio Adelaide with Cath Kenneally. Next week it will be Zanesh Catkin's turn. The interviews will eventually be released as podcasts and displayed here. The last few weeks have been busy
- [Zanesh invades Radio Adelaide](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/08/zanesh-invades-radio-adelaide/) - Zanesh Catkin was interviewed on Radio Adelaide's Breakfast radio with Tim Brunero on Thursday 23 August 2012. Check out what the writer had to say about learning to type on his own typewriter as a young boy, about Pangamonium as an adventure novel and also hear Sue Reece read excerpts from the novel. Keep up
- [Keeping busy](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/09/keeping-busy/) - Both Anna Solding and Zanesh Catkin have been very busy lately. First they were interviewed on Writers' Radio with Cath Kenneally. You can listen to Zanesh here. Anna's interview is available here. Then Anna was invited to talk to students at Marryatville Primary School during Book Week. This year, the theme was 'Champions Read' and
- [Teaser for <em>Peace, Love and Khaki Socks</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2013/02/teaser-for-peace-love-and-khaki-socks/) - February is hot as always in Adelaide but that hasn't stopped us from working hard. Peace, Love and Khaki Socks is at the printer and it will still be a while before you can see it. However, to keep you entertained while you're waiting for the book itself, we have created this gorgeous little promo.
- [We are on a roll!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2013/03/we-are-on-a-roll/) - March has been and gone in the blink of an eye. As always, Adelaide Writers' Week was a literary delight and the MidnightSun team spent most of the week getting inspired by brilliant writers from around the globe. We have been gearing up for the launch of Kim Lock's Peace, Love and Khaki Socks
- [Reviews are coming in - and they are brilliant!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2013/04/reviews-are-coming-in/) - We are so proud to announce the first six reviews of Kim Lock's Peace, Love and Khaki Socks and they are overwhelmingly positive. Daystarz: 5 of 5 One word. LOVE. I love this book. It is warm, genuine and emotive. It is real. It is entirely believable...This is so much more than just a book
- [Successfully launching <em>Peace, Love and Khaki Socks</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2013/04/successfully-launching-peace-love-and-khaki-socks/) - Thank you so much to those of you who were able to join us for the launch of Kim Lock's Peace, Love and Khaki Socks! It was a festive night full of smiles. Author Heather Taylor Johnson did a stellar job launching the book and the audience was wonderfully supportive. Kim spoke beautifully about her
- [Reviews of <em>Peace, Love and Khaki Socks</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2013/04/reviews-of-peace-love-and-khaki-socks/) - Reviews of Kim Lock’s Peace, Love and Khaki Socks have been overwhelmingly positive: Daystarz: 5 of 5 One word. LOVE. I love this book. It is warm, genuine and emotive. It is real. It is entirely believable…This is so much more than just a book about pregnancy – it’s also a story about a woman’s
- [2012/13 Appearances](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2013/12/201213-appearances/) - If you are interested in catching up with our authors Amanda Hickie, Jane Jolly, Sally Heinrich, Kim Lock, Lynette Washington, Anna Solding, Zanesh Catkin or Kristin Weidenbach this is where you can find them: Where we were in 2013 October 2013 Wednesday 23 October 2013. Anna Solding will be speaking at Gorman House in Canberra.
- [</em>One Step at a Time</em> — it's Pozible!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2014/04/one-step-at-a-time/) - We can't believe that Easter is already upon us. At Midnight Sun headquarters we've been hard at work organising a crowdfunding campaign for the children's picture book that we plan to publish next year. It is called One Step at a Time and it is about a Thai boy called Luk and his baby elephant
- [Introducing <em>Rock Star</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2014/05/introducing-rock-star/) - MidnightSun has been lucky enough to secure the ebook publication of Kristin Weidenbach's fascinating and entertaining book Rock Star. The story of Reg Sprigg - an outback legend. It was first published in paperback in 2008 by East Street Publications but has not previously been published as an ebook. You can now buy it as
- [Kindle edition of <em>Breaking Beauty</em> is available](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2014/11/kindle-edition-of-breaking-beauty-is-available/) - As of right now the Kindle edition of Breaking Beauty is available. Go on, you know you want it... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PBA6IL4
- [Happy Birthday to us!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2017/02/happybirthday/) - MidnightSun is turning five! From our humble beginnings, with Anna Solding’s The Hum of Concrete in 2012, we have grown to one of the largest publishers in South Australia, publishing everything from picture books to adult literary fiction. So many people have helped along the way: designers, writers, illustrators, editors and readers. 2017 looks to
- [<em>Wild Gestures</em> Review](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2016/10/wild-gestures-review/) - The first review of Lucy Durneen's short story collection Wild Gestures has appeared in Books+Publishing and we couldn't possibly be happier: 'This is an intriguing collection of short stories where things are seldom what they seem and characters are preoccupied by their past actions. Shaped less by plot than by precise and evocative imagery, they
- [Kristin Weidenbach](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2014/03/kristin-weidenbach/) - Kristin Weidenbach writes popular non-fiction focused on Australian history. She is the author of the picture book Meet Banjo Paterson and Tom the Outback Mailman, which is a picture book for junior primary readers based on her Australian bestseller, Mailman of the Birdsville Track: the Story of Tom Kruse. She is the author of Rock
- [Darwin Publicity Tour](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2013/05/darwin-publicity-tour/) - On Friday 10 May 2013, Kim Lock and Anna Solding flew to Darwin for a whirlwind promotional tour of Kim's book Peace, Love and Khaki Socks, with a launch in the city library, morning tea at the Childbirth Education Association and a Mother's Day reading at the NT Writers' Centre. Here is the trip in
- [No signs of slowing down](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/11/no-signs-of-slowing-down/) - The MidnightSun authors have been very busy over the last couple of months. Anna was invited to talk to students and staff at The University of Adelaide in September. She decided to talk about her writing, her PhD experience and her publishing venture in equal measure. A couple of weeks later, Anna was invited to
- [Catching up...](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2013/10/catching-up/) - Although it may look like we haven't done much the last few months, MidnightSun has actually been hard at work behind the scenes reading manuscripts and deciding on what to publish next year. We have submitted The Hum of Concrete to the Most Underrated Book Award. Both Kim and Anna have had speaking engagements. We
- [Paul Mitchell](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2016/10/paul-mitchell/) - Paul Mitchell’s wry and moving considerations of society’s undercurrents chronicle an unsettlingly recognisable Australia. His three poetry collections have received national prizes and wide acclaim, and his short story collection Dodging the Bull was included in the 2008 The Age Summer Read program. He is also a playwright, screenwriter and essayist. Mitchell’s varied oeuvre explores
- [Call for submissions - Love anthology](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2016/10/call-for-submissions-love-anthology/) - DEADLINE EXTENDED! Submissions now due Friday 2 December 2016! MidnightSun has teamed up with Flinders University to create a short story anthology in 2017. The theme is 'Ain't Love Grand' because it's about romantic love, in any of its guises. We would particularly love unusual interpretations of the theme. Word length is max. 3000 words.
- [Introducing Paul Mitchell](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2016/08/introducing-paul-mitchell/) - Paul Mitchell is the latest writer to join the MidnightSun family. Here he is talking about ideas for his novel We. Are. Family. which is due out in September 2016 Ideas - guest post by Paul Mitchell My friend D. asked me a question I hadn’t heard for a long time: where do you get your
- [Bologna and London Book Fairs](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2016/06/bologna-and-london-book-fairs/) - In April 2016, writer Cameron Raynes and I set out on an epic adventure tour in Europe. We had planned to visit Bologna in Italy to attend the children’s book fair there and London in the UK to visit their book fair. It was a very productive trip with lots of meetings, both with new
- [Continually expanding](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2015/12/continually-expanding/) - MidnightSun has been growing over the last three years and we have become a force to be reckoned with, in adult and children's literature alike. We only publish books we love and we spend months making sure we edit the text to its absolute pinnacle and design the best possible cover. We are incredibly proud
- [<em>Local Colour - Adelaide</em> is here!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2015/11/local-colour-adelaide-is-here/) - Local Colour - Adelaide by Sally Heinrich has arrived early due to high demand. We are very proud and excited to be publishing this exquisite mindfulness colouring book about Adelaide and surrounds. From 10 November 2015 you should be able to find it in all good bookshops in Adelaide, as well as in Big W,
- [Revealing the cover of <em>First Person Shooter</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2015/10/revealing-the-cover-of-first-person-shooter/) - MidnightSun has been working tirelessly to find the very best fiction for your reading pleasure. We are extremely proud to announce the first novel by word magician Cameron Raynes. It is called First Person Shooter and tells the story of fifteen year old Jayden who has a terribly debilitating stutter and an interest in shooting.
- [Magnificent <em>Local Colour - Adelaide</em> is on the way!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2015/10/magnificent-local-colour-adelaide-is-on-the-way/) - MidnightSun is excited to have sent our first adult colouring book to print! There's a bewildering variety of adult colouring books on the market right now, but this one is a little different. More than simply a colouring book, Local Colour — Adelaide explores many of the things and places that make Adelaide unique. Through
- [Amanda Hickie at Newtown Festival](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2015/09/amanda-hickie-at-newtown-festival/) - You have a great opportunity to catch Amanda Hickie at the Newtown Festival on Sunday 8 November 2015, 12.40pm at Camperdown Memorial Rest Park. Four talented Australian fiction novelists come together to for the Fictional Sydney panel focusing on how each represents Sydney in their work. Creator of Offspring, Debra Oswald's novel Useful is a
- [<em>Breaking Beauty</em> Launch!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2015/07/breaking-beauty-launch/) - Breaking Beauty Book Launch 7 Nov 2014 It seems like a long time ago now, but back in November 2014 MidnightSun Publishing launched our first short story collection Breaking Beauty. It was such a great night that although months have passed we still enjoy talking about it! The South Australian Writers Centre was full to
- [<em>An Ordinary Epidemic</em> — Rights sold!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2015/07/an-ordinary-epidemic-rights-sold/) - Over the last month or so MidnightSun has been hard at work behind the scenes and now we are extremely happy to announce huge successes for two of our books: We have sold the American rights to Amanda Hickie's An Ordinary Epidemic in a six-figure deal with Little, Brown. Check it out here. We have
- [Review of <em>An Ordinary Epidemic</em> in <em>The Australian</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2015/06/review-of-an-ordinary-epidemic-in-the-australian/) - Amanda Hickie's terrific novel has had a great review in The Australian. This is what they had to say: With Ebola, SARS, superbugs and the anticipated exhaustion of antibiotics, the question of how Australians might behave if a deadly pandemic hit our shores is an interesting one. We are, despite our vast expanses, one of
- [Reviews of <em>An Ordinary Epidemic</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2015/06/reviews-of-an-ordinary-epidemic/) - The reviews have been coming in for An Ordinary Epidemic and they are fantastic! Here are a couple to give you an idea: Books+Publishing, review by Jessica Broadbent, librarian and former bookseller 'What would you do in an epidemic? Stock up your pantry, gather your family and wait it out? But what if one of
- [Reviews of <em>One Step at a Time</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2015/05/reviews-of-one-step-at-a-time/) - The excellent children's picture book One Step at a Time written by Jane Jolly and illustrated by Sally Heinrich has received many fabulous, insightful reviews. Here is one of them, from Magpies magazine.
- [<em>An Ordinary Epidemic</em> launched in style!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2015/05/an-ordinary-epidemic-launched-in-style/) - On Friday 8 May 2015 we launched Amanda Hickie's thrilling novel An Ordinary Epidemic at the SA Writers' Centre in Adelaide. A supportive crowd braved the autumn rain to join us in celebrating this terrific novel. In her launch speech Lynette Washington made everyone acutely aware that Amanda's story about a deadly outbreak could have
- [Adelaide Launch of <em>An Ordinary Epidemic</em>!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2015/04/adelaide-launch-of-an-ordinary-epidemic/) - Please join MidnightSun for the launch of Amanda Hickie's highly anticipated nail biter An Ordinary Epidemic. Editor and writer Lynette Washington will launch the book in style. As always, there will be plenty of drinks and nibbles. Bring a friend, dance, buy a book, chat with a writer, have fun! RSVP's much appreciated. 8 May
- [<em>An Ordinary Epidemic</em> on the way](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2015/02/an-ordinary-epidemic-on-the-way/) - Have we mentioned that there is a new novel brewing at MidnightSun? The first review just came in and it's fabulous. Here is a teaser: 'It’s utterly fascinating, a little gruesome and impossible to put down.' Jessica Broadbent in Books+Publishing
- [<em>Buzz Words</em> review of <em>One Step at a Time</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2015/02/buzz-words-review-of-one-step-at-a-time/) - Another lovely review of One Step at a Time, this time in Buzz Words: http://www.buzzwordsmagazine.com/2015/01/one-step-at-time_11.html
- [First Review for <em>One Step at a Time</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2015/01/first-review-for-one-step-at-a-time/) - 'Jane Jolly has a knack for tackling unusual stories (Limpopo Lullaby) with tender, evocative writing. The striking illustrations are reproductions of hand-coloured lino prints. They are dramatic and engaging and the book is cleverly designed, taking in the elements of the lino cuts and leaving plenty of space for text. This is highly recommended, especially
- [The launch is so close now...](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2014/11/the-launch-is-so-close-now/) - On Friday 7 November 2014 from 6.30pm we'll be launching the fabulous collection Breaking Beauty, which contains stories about beauty in all its disguises. Established and emerging writers appear side by side on these pages and they all have something unique to say about beauty. Why don't you join us at the SA Writers' Centre,
- [Treasuring Beauty](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2014/10/treasuring-beauty/) - In ten days Breaking Beauty can be yours to treasure forever.
- [Proudly presents... Amanda Hickie!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2014/06/proudly-presents-amanda-hickie/) - Every now and then, out of the massive MidnightSun pile of unsolicited manuscripts, appears a story that really grabs us by the throat and shakes us around. Because we actually read every single one of those manuscripts, we come across a mixed bunch of stories, from children's picture books to self-help manuals. But mainly the
- [What will 2014 bring?](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2014/01/what-will-2014-bring/) - MidnightSun has been very busy behind the scenes lately, planning this year and beyond. Although we are currently snowed under with interesting manuscripts and in the process of reading them all, we have decided on a couple of projects for this year. We are going to step into children's book publishing for the first time
- [Sneak Peek of Peace, Love and Khaki Socks](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2013/02/sneak-peek-of-peace-love-and-khaki-socks/) - Chapter 1 Honestly, I couldn’t have given a shit if she was wearing undies or not. All I really cared about was trying not to throw up on her sandals. But rather than say so, I smiled and offered a feeble halflaugh. I had only met Tamika twice before, but she was the fifth person
- [Revealing the cover of <em>Peace, Love and Khaki Socks</em>!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2013/01/revealing-the-cover-of-peace-love-and-khaki-socks/) - Welcome back to a fresh new year! MidnightSun has plenty of exciting things planned for 2013, but none more exciting than the publication of our next novel Peace, Love and Khaki Socks in time for Mother's Day in May. Set in Darwin during cyclone season, this heartfelt novel gets under the skin of the army
- [Celebrating 2012!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/12/celebrating-2012/) - This first year has flown by for MidnightSun Publishing. We have made our fair share of mistakes, such as getting review copies out too late to important reviewers, and we have had lower visibility in the Eastern states than we would have liked. However, for the most part this year has been an absolute triumph.
- [Exciting news — another book is on its way!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/10/exciting-news/) - So October has come around and MidnightSun Publishing has been really busy promoting and marketing as well as consolidating, reading manuscripts and making decisions about our next publication. It is with great honour and excitement we can now announce that Kim Lock's Peace, Love and Khaki Socks will be published in May 2013. It's a
- [The <em>Pangamonium</em> Launch Party](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/07/the-pangamonium-launch-party/) - What can I say? What an amazing experience! Those of you who couldn't make it to the launch of Pangamonium last Friday night, 20 July 2012, you really did miss out on a huge night. The SA Writers' Centre atrium was bursting at the seams, wine supplied by Cleggett Wines was plentiful and the speeches
- [<em>The Hum of Concrete</em> is launched at Adelaide Writers' Week](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/03/the-hum-of-concrete-launch/) - Finally, the day had come to launch MidnightSun Publishing's first book ever! Anna Solding's enchanting novel The Hum of Concrete was about to take flight from the most wonderful writers' festival in the world, Adelaide Writers' Week. Amongst the trees of the Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden, highly esteemed writer Sean Williams said a few well-chosen
- [Invitation to the launch of <em>The Hum of Concrete</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/02/invitation-to-the-launch-of-the-hum-of-concrete/) - MidnightSun Publishing proudly presents The Hum of Concrete, an evocative novel by new writer Anna Solding. Highly esteemed author Sean Williams will launch The Hum of Concrete at Adelaide Writers’ Week, Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden Saturday 3 March 2012 at 5pm sharp Please join us in raising a complimentary glass to celebrate.
- [MidnightSun Publishing is officially launched!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/02/midnightsun-publishing-is-officially-launched/) - February is here and the time has finally come to let MidnightSun Publishing stand on its own two feet. Last night, 10 Feb 2012, the company was officially launched at an amazing party in Adelaide. Well-known businessman Simon Hackett did the honours and did so beautifully, talking about the need for people to be passionate
- [Invitation!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/01/invitation/) - You Are Invited to the Company Launch... The directors of Adelaide’s new publishing houserequest the pleasure of your company at the launch of MidnightSun Publishing Friday 10 February 2012 at 7pm MidnightSun Publishing will be launched by well-known Adelaide business personality Simon Hackett, Managing Director of Internode SA Writers’ CentreSecond Floor187 Rundle Street Adelaide SA
- [Getting closer...](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2011/11/getting-closer/) - November has been a very busy month, when we have been working hard to get this website looking as fabulous as it does now. The cover of MidnightSun Publishing's first novel, The Hum of Concrete by new writer Anna Solding, is also being designed right now. Soon you will be able to see it here.
- [Sneak Peek of <em>The Hum of Concrete</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2011/10/sneak-peek-of-the-hum-of-concrete/) - Feeling Malmö As you pull the blinds up and see the layer of powder covering the spidery limbs of the young beech outside your second storey bedroom window you know it will be a Sunday like no other. A quick glance at the thermometer confirms winter's sudden appearance and there is no time to lose.
- [<em>The Ludic Mode of Pangamonium</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/07/the-ludic-mode-of-pangamonium/) - by Zanesh Catkin The Ludic Mode of Pangamonium is an exegesis of the novel Pangamonium. It explores the ludic mode, which it considers an open play of signification characterised by freedom, reflexivity and subversion, and it explores the work of Nabokov, Calvino and Borges to explicate manifestations of play. Pangamonium is also examined in the
- [<em>Breaking Beauty</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2014/10/breaking-beauty-2/) - In this stunning collection, twenty-seven brilliant writers ask: What is beauty? Stories, edited by Lynette Washington PB 240 | 198 x 129 | ISBN 978-1-925227-00-0 | $24.99 Fiction | MidnightSun Publishing | November 2014 Breaking Beauty puts one of the greatest obsessions of our time under the spotlight and shows that beauty rarely exists without
- [Cameron Raynes](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2016/02/cameron-raynes/) - Cameron Raynes is a prize-winning author who has chosen in First Person Shooter to explore the deeply personal experience of adolescent stuttering. Having survived bruising encounters with three psychopaths by the age of 30, Raynes turned away from welfare work and anthropology to find his voice as a writer. He teaches history at the University
- [Best Aussie Reads of 2014](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2015/01/best-aussie-reads-of-2014/) - Anna Solding's The Hum of Concrete, published in 2012, gets a mention in this Best Aussie Reads of 2014 list. At MidnightSun, we like our books to have a long tail. http://writenotereviews.com/2014/12/23/my-top-ten-aussie-reads-in-2014-were/
- [Announcing the BIG news!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2013/10/announcing-the-big-news/) - The shortlist for the Most Underrated Book Award has just been announced and Anna Solding's The Hum of Concrete is on it! This is such an amazing initiative by the Small Press Network, which gives the shortlisted entries new exposure. MidnightSun is so proud of Anna and honoured to be selected alongside other excellent small
- [Book signing at Dillons Bookshop](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2013/05/book-signing-at-dillons-bookshop/) - The weather gods indulged us for this book signing, so being outside chatting with people was a real pleasure. Kim, true to form, was all smiles. And after seeing the book both on the counter and in the new releases section, who could blame her?
- [Kim Lock](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2013/01/kim-lock/) - After growing up in country South Australia, Kim Lock has lived in Darwin, Melbourne and Canberra, and now resides on home soil in Adelaide with her military husband and their two young children. It was after becoming a mother that Kim found the urge to write in earnest. Some experience as a breastfeeding counsellor saw
- [Radio interview this Monday](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/04/radio-interview-on-monday/) - We are delighted to announce that Anna Solding has been invited to talk on Radio Adelaide this Monday, 23 April 2012. She will be interviewed on breakfast radio at 8.10 am. The Radio Adelaide frequency is 101.5 fm and you get to it online here: http://tunein.com/radio/Radio-Adelaide-1015-s9234/ Anna will be talking about her novel The Hum
- [Best Seller!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/04/best-seller/) - The Hum of Concrete is now on the Best Sellers shelf in Dillons Norwood Bookshop.
- [Book signing in Norwood, Adelaide](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/03/book-signing-in-norwood/) - Anna Solding will be signing copies of her novel The Hum of Concrete at Dillons Bookshop on The Parade in Norwood.
- [The stunning cover for <em>The Hum of Concrete</em> is here!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/01/cover-for-the-hum-of-concrete/) - The beautiful cover for The Hum of Concrete has been finalised and this is the result. We are all very happy and proud to have produced such an amazing looking book. Hopefully, the cover will entice all kinds of readers to pick it up, read it and love it. It will appear in selected book
- [Almost there!](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2011/12/almost-there/) - December and 2011 is almost over and a thrilling new year is about to begin. MidnightSun will send our first novel off to the printer next week, after some very intense weeks working on both the cover and the internal design with wonderful Jenny Grigg. We cannot recommend her highly enough! Allan Taylor came on
- [Multi-Storied — <em>Breaking Beauty</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2015/03/multi-storied/) - Here is the first Melbourne interview about Breaking Beauty. Lynette Washington and Anna Solding talking to Triple R. Between 32 and 44 minutes in: http://ondemand.rrr.org.au/player/128/201503181200 Source: Multi-Storied
- [<em>Breaking Beauty</em> Reading](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2015/03/breaking-beauty-reading/) - The good news is coming in so thick and fast these days that we are having a hard time keeping up with it all. Here is a blog post from Mostly Books about the Breaking Beauty reading last week: http://mostlybooks.com.au/blog/2015/03/18/breaking-beauty-a-reading/
- [YouTube video of Amanda talking about <em>An Ordinary Epidemic</em>](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2015/06/youtube-video-of-amanda-talking-about-an-ordinary-epidemic/) - For those of you who haven't yet read Amanda Hickie's terrific An Ordinary Epidemic but are interested in doing so and for those who have read and loved the book, here is Amanda giving you some background to the novel: YouTube video of Amanda Hickie
- [Welcome to MidnightSun Publishing](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2011/09/midnightsun-publishing/) - MidnightSun Publishing is a new and exciting publishing company based in Adelaide, Australia. We believe that books matter. We believe that books are still important in this digital world and we aim to bring books to you in whatever format you prefer. Good books change lives; they carry readers away to another world and another
- [Queensland Literary Awards](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2012/08/queensland-literary-awards/) - MidnightSun Publishing has decided to help the Queensland Literary Awards in their Pozible campaign to raise funds desperately needed after Queensland Premier Campbell Newman decided, as one of his first actions in office, to scrap the funding for the awards. Fortunately, the target has been reached so the awards will go ahead this year, but
- [Dear reader,](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/2011/10/dear-reader/) - The month is October. Spring is approaching and so is the launch of MidnightSun Publishing's website. We have been working hard to make it inviting and user friendly. Please give us feedback. We love to hear about how great it looks but we are also open to suggestions for improvements. The year is 2011 and

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- [The Rider on the Bridge](https://midnightsunpublishing.com/shop/books/the-rider-on-the-bridge/) - by Scott Pearce PB 192 | 234 x 153 | $29.99 ISBN: 9780987226556 | 18 May 2022 Fiction | Also available as ebook MidnightSun Publishing Distributed by NewSouth Books ‘It is a good story, although I cannot say it is true. Like most stories I suppose there is some truth in it, but the absence
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