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 missing. Continue reading Mizuto and the Wind
PB 400 | 198 x 129 | ISBN: 9781922858061 | $19.99 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 on the water-skin. Sala’s village survives hidden behind a wall of poisonous ivy, because everyone agrees: don’t go out onto the lake. But then a strange comet crosses the night sky, throwing Sala and her pet pointer into a race through wyann-infested swampland that has her risking it all, unearthing long-hidden Continue reading When Dark Roots Hunt Teachers’ Notes for Satin ( HB 32 | 240 x 240 | $29.99 | ISBN: 9781922858016 | March 2023 Picture 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 collected all kinds of blues, from all kinds of places. He’s making something beautiful, with all those blues. But something’s missing, and he doesn’t know what it is. And then, one day, he comes to a street he’s never been in before. And what he finds there will Continue reading Satin 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 the best way for our small team to deal with the situation. We will open again as soon as we have been able to reduce the number of submissions waiting. Please keep an eye on the website and social media for the next opening date. Thank you for understanding! Teachers’ Notes for Something About Alaska ( PB 368 | 234 x 153 | $29.99 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 in a world completely transformed by an apocalyptic flood. Haunted by entwined pasts, the characters must voyage from a small Midwestern town through a world that seems increasingly fantastic. Each will face their past, and some will die, and the boat will even float through the miraculous, but only fifteen-year-old Charlotte will discover that death is not always death. Sometimes, it is Continue reading Her Death Was Also Water PB 224 | 198 x 128 | $19.99 ‘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 the father he’s only ever known from a distance. But Zac’s dad is a lone wolf – a wounded soul who’d rather drown his regrets in a bottle of bourbon than confront the mistakes of his past. As Zac struggles to earn his father’s approval, things spiral out of control forcing Zac to take his chances with the Alaskan winter. Whatever hope remains for father and son quickly fades, as Zac is forced to hitchhike to escape the hostile weather and soon finds himself sharing a remote cabin with a total stranger… and his gun. Continue reading Something About Alaska HB 32 | 210 x 295 | $29.99 | ISBN: 9780987380906 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 crime and cattle hustling. She used her skills as a rough-rider and tightrope walker to elude police, often hiding in a cave, deep in the mountains. Continue reading Wild Bush Days PB 352 | 234 x 153 | $29.99 | IBSN: 9780987226587 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 experiments on overcrowding in rats. Free-spirited Amala is an international student feeling the strong tug of home. Roz is a struggling photographer who has visions of the future, although she tries her best to ignore them. When Roz foresees a terrible tragedy, she is finally driven to act. But can she turn things around once a direction has already been set? As events rapidly escalate Continue reading Random Acts of Unkindness 
When Dark Roots Hunt
Young Adult | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | 20 May 2023
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illustrated by Lorena Carrington
Book | MidnightSun Publishing | Distributed by NewSouth BooksLorena Carrington
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pdf, 830 kb)Her Death Was Also Water
ISBN: 9781925227918 | November 2022
Novel | Also available as ebook
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ISBN: 9780987380975 | September 2022
Young Adult | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing
Distributed by NewSouth BooksJ. A. Cooper
Wild Bush Days
August 2022 | Picture Book | MidnightSun Publishing
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Random Acts of Unkindness
July 2022 | Fiction | Also available as ebook
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Distributed by NewSouth Books
