Middle grade
Author / Illustrator
The Midnight Hour
Emily's parents have vanished into the secret world of the Midnight Hour – a Victorian London frozen in time, home to magic and monsters. Emily must find them in the city of the Night Folk, armed only with a packed lunch, a stowaway hedgehog, and her infamously big mouth.
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The Midnight Howl
Book 2 in the Midnight Hour series. Magic is leaking from the Midnight Hour and Emily is on the case, but her shape-shifting relatives and a series of spooky hauntings aren’t making things easy. Not to mention the fact that she’s supposed to be grounded! Will she save both worlds before she runs out of biscuits?
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THE MIDNIGHT HUNT
Book 3 in the Midnight Hour series. Emily’s friends and family are on the run from the terrifying Midnight Hunt, while the foul Make Britain Dark Again party schemes to break the spell that keeps both worlds safe. But how’s a girl meant to save the day (and night) when she’s all out of snacks and her possibly-magic pocket hedgehog is hibernating?
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The Midnight Hour trilogy is by Benjamin Read & Laura Trinder. Published by Chicken House. With cover illustrations by Hannah Peck and interior illustrations by Laura Trinder.
Spooky, funny, magical, adventure fiction for age 9+.
comics
Illustrator / Colourist
night post
This is the story of the other mail service; the one that starts work at midnight and delivers to all the creatures of the night. Whether ghost or ghoul, witch or werewolf, or just downright odd things with tentacles, they all have post and someone has to deliver it, no matter how terrifying it might be to do so.
Night Post is a pure joy from start to finish.
Charles De Lint
An absolute delight. Dreamlike, beautiful, imaginative and enchanting.
Kurt Busiek
Brilliantly clever, original, funny and tinged with a taste of the macabre.
Read It Daddy
Wordless comic for all ages
Story: Benjamin Read
Illustration: Laura Trinder
Published by Improper Books (2014)
Inspired the Midnight Hour trilogy
BATMAN: NIGHTWALKER
Returning home from his lavish eighteenth birthday party, Bruce Wayne stops a criminal's getaway - disobeying the police and crashing his car during the chase. Sentenced to community service in Arkham Asylum, he encounters some of the the city's most dangerous criminals. Among these, Bruce meets the intriguing Madeleine who has ties to the Nightwalker gang that is terrorizing Gotham City.
YA Comic
Adapted from the novel by Marie Lu
Script: Stuart Moore
Pencils: Christian Wildgoose
Inks: Christian Wildgoose & Cam Smith
Interior colours: Laura Trinder
Published by DC