Illustration of Big Ben with colorful smoke and abstract shapes rising above it. The title 'The Midnight Hour' is written in large red letters across the smoke. The authors are Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder.
Cover art for the book 'The Midnight Howl' by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder, featuring stylized black wolves with red eyes in a graveyard, surrounded by trees and tombstones.
Book cover titled 'The Midnight Hunt' by Benjamin Read & Laura Trinder, featuring a leaping horse, large moon, bridge, and castle towers with reaching hands around the edges in a vibrant red, pink, and purple color scheme.

The Midnight Hour Trilogy

By Benjamin Read & Laura Trinder

Story: Trindles & Read
Words: Read
Illustrations: Trindles
Cover: Hannah Peck
Published by Chicken House

A greyscale illustration showing a black dog and gravestones, set in a decorative border with a skull at the top, surrounding the book title The Midnight Howl. Title page artwork by Laura Trinder.

The Midnight Hour is a magical adventure series for middle grade / 9-12yo readers and up.

A classic portal fantasy, Emily must solve mysteries and save the day night within the secret world of the Midnight Hour - a magical Victorian London, frozen in time.

The Sunday Times Book of the Week

Foyles Book of the Month

The Bookseller Editor’s Choice

Dubray Favourite Children’s Book of the Month

Branford Boase Award Nominated

Amazon Bestseller

Featured on Newsround!

Available in 20 languages

The Midnight Hour

A colourful book cover illustration by Hannah Peck, showing Big Ben and large red text reading 'The Midnight Hour'. The authors' names Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder are at the bottom.

‘They must have come from under beds, out of mirrors, up from caves, and down from attics; all out of the darkness and into the moonlight. They were the Night Folk, and this was their world.’

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.

With bloodthirsty creatures on her tail, Emily has to discover the truth to rescue her parents. What family secret connects her to the Midnight Hour? And can she save both worlds before she runs out of sandwiches?

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Book cover for 'Mitternachtstunde: Emily und die geheime Nachpost' featuring a young girl with short dark hair, wearing a gray beanie and a navy jacket, smiling with a small hedgehog on her shoulder, city street background at night with a clock tower, full moon, and floating mail envelopes.
Book cover titled 'De Brief om Middernacht' featuring a stylized illustration of Big Ben with a person reading at the base, silhouettes of London landmarks, a ghostly woman with an umbrella, bats, a horse, and floating letters against a night sky.
Book cover titled 'The Midnight Hour' by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder, featuring a purple and black cityscape with a clock tower, spooky eyes, and tentacles surrounding the title.

“Anarchic humour, rich imagination and poetic writing, interspersed with elegant line drawings, add up to pure delight.”

— The Guardian

Book cover for 'Il Polo dei Notturni' by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder, featuring a silhouette of a girl running on rooftops at night, surrounded silhouettes and sinister faces, with London landmarks including Big Ben in the background.
Book cover for 'Magie a Minuit' showing a girl with dark hair and a hedgehog, standing before the London skyline, showing the Big Ben clock tower at night, illuminated by a full moon and a person on a bicycle in the sky.

“… laugh-out-loud funny… great fun.”

— The Sunday Times

The Midnight Howl

Book cover titled "The Midnight Howl" illustrated with several black wolves with glowing red eyes in a graveyard with tombstones and crosses, surrounded by trees with dark branches, in a dark and mystical style. Benjamin Read Laura Trinder

Emily must investigate why magic is leaking from the secret world of the Midnight Hour. But with a terrifying haunting stalking her across Victorian London, and her shape-shifting relatives up to no good, Emily will need all the help she can get. Luckily, she has her friends - Inspector-in-training Tarkus, and Hoggins the pocket hedgehog.

With only her big mouth, stash of snacks and faulty Pooka powers, can Emily solve the mystery and save the day before her mum grounds her forever?

Ask your local indie, or order from:

Blackwell’s    Bookshop    Foyles    Hive

Waterstones    WHSmith    Amazon

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Cover of a book titled 'Schreiw um Middernacht' featuring a person walking through a spooky graveyard with leafless trees, black cats with glowing red eyes, a large full moon, flying bats, and a dark silhouette of a wolf with a top hat. The authors are Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder.
Book cover titled "Midnatts-Skri" by Benjamin Read & Laura Tinder, showcasing a young woman with dark hair, wearing a beige coat and yellow pants, amidst a fantastical scene and stormy skies with a large moon and fantasy architecture.
Book cover for 'Mitternachtsstunde: Emily und der löchrige Zeitzauber' by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder. Features two girls, one with dark hair and a beanie, the other with red hair, facing each other in a spooky graveyard at night with black wolf-like creatures with glowing red eyes surrounding them. The background shows leafless trees, tombstones, a full moon, and a large menacing dog face at the top.

“A vivid world full of intriguing creatures and monsters, along with a story bursting with humour, suspense and mystery - a sensational read.”

— The Scotsman, on The Midnight Hour

Cover of a Korean book titled 'The Midnight Howl' featuring a dark forest with black wolves with red eyes, graveyard gravestones, and a large full moon.
Book cover for "Magie à Minuit: Les Passages du Chaos" by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder, depicting a young girl with black hair in an orange jacket, holding a hedgehog, surrounded by glowing green mist, black tendrils, and various magical and whimsical elements.

“A fantastic magical adventure featuring a cast of Ghibli-esque characters, a feisty heroine and a hedgehog. I loved it.”

— M. G. Leonard, on The Midnight Hour

The Midnight Hunt

Book cover for 'The Midnight Hunt' by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder. Features a horse jumping over Tower Bridge in London, in front of a large white moon, and creepy yellow hands reaching in from the edges against a swirling pink and purple sky.

Emily is locked out of the Midnight Hour and things have grown dangerously dark in Victorian London.

Her 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. It’s going to take more than just Emily’s big mouth to fix this one. 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?

Ask your local indie, or order from:

Blackwell’s    Bookshop    Foyles    Hive,

Waterstones    WHSmith    Amazon

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Book cover titled 'Midnattsjakt' by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder. The cover features a woman with dark hair in a green coat standing in a spooky, green-lit underground tunnel, with ghostly, tentacle-like tendrils swirling around her. In the background, there is a barred cage with ghostly figures and a lantern hanging on the side.
A fantasy-style book cover titled "Jacht der nachtmusik" featuring a girl reaching towards a glowing, starry sky, a woman with long dark hair, a horse head at the top, flying books and a brick arch framing the scene. Stables market, Camden.
Book cover for "Mitternachtsstunde: Emily und die magische Weltgrenze" by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder, featuring a moonlit night sky, flying ravens, a clock tower, and three characters in adventure poses.

“The Midnight Hour… is definitely one to look out for with a very feisty heroine, madcap adventure, brilliant worldbuilding and a whole host of creepy creatures.”

— The National Literacy Trust, on The Midnight Hour

Cover art for a book titled 'Midnattstid' by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder, featuring a young girl with a hedgehog, a cityscape with Big Ben in the background, swirling clouds, and elements like gears, an umbrella, and a mysterious figure.
Book cover art for 'Magie a Minuit' by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder, featuring a young girl with dark hair in a pink hoodie reaching out to a white glowing horse silhouette, with London Tower Bridge and a full moon in the background.

“A gripping and genuinely menacing narrative.”

— Daily Mail, on The Midnight Hour

Midnight Hour Scrapbook

A magazine page shows a 'Books of the month' section with a book titled 'The Midnight Hour' by Imogen Russell Williams, alongside an illustration of a lighthouse with waves. The lower part has colorful, abstract art with the text 'The Midnight Hour'
A white hedgehog on top of a book titled "The Midnight Hour" amidst plants, flowers, and several other books arranged on a wooden surface.
Image of two book covers side by side with a purple background. The left book is titled "The Midnight Hour" and depicts colorful abstract smoke rising from Big Ben, London. The right book is titled "Asha & The Spirit Bird" and features an illustrated
Colourful mural on a school building wall with book titles and authors, depicting a cultural and literary theme, including The Midnight Hour, Wonder, The Boy at the Back of the Class, The Last Wild, Rooftoppers, and Nevermoor. Newsround.
A magazine page featuring a photo of a man with curly hair and glasses, associated with a review or feature on the book 'The Midnight Hour' by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder. The page includes details about the book, its storyline, and publisher inf
Book display featuring 'The Midnight Hour' by Foyles, with multiple copies arranged on a bookshelf and a promotional poster in front.
Page from a magazine or book showing the 'Children's Book of the Week' section with a book titled 'The Midnight Hour' and its description.
Collage of children's book covers featuring 'The Midnight Howl' and illustrations of black wolf-like creatures with red eyes in a fantasy setting.
Website homepage for Chicken House books featuring the cover of 'The Midnight Hour' by Benjamin Read & Laura Trinder, with colorful illustrations of Big Ben at night with fireworks.
Promotional image for 'Owl Babble with Authors' featuring Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder. It includes a book cover titled 'The Midnight Hour' by the authors, a circular photo of the authors with fun costume accessories like horns and a crown, and wh
Digital display of three children's books recommended for ages 9-12, including 'The Midnight Hour', 'Prairie Lotus', and 'The Only Black Girls in Town' with their prices, ratings, and authors visible.
Screenshot of a book review by Sue Chambers for The Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder, highlighting the book's adventurous plot involving a girl named Emily and her love for hedgehogs.
Black and white sketch of a person wearing a hat, striped shirt, and plaid skirt, surrounded by various objects including an umbrella, a bird flying above, a fish, an envelope, a bell, a small hedgehog, and music notes, all in a whimsical style.
Chalkboard sign promoting a book reading event featuring Laura Trinder, author of The Midnight Hour, scheduled for February 20th at 1 pm with an illustration of a colorful cityscape and Big Ben.
School bulletin board titled 'The Midnight Hour' featuring colored drawings, paintings, and notes about Big Ben, a clock tower, and other London landmarks, with several empty circular photo cutouts.
Displays of the children's book "The Midnight Hour" by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder, with colorful covers featuring a graffiti-like depiction of Big Ben emitting smoke and fireworks, in a bookstore setting.
Book review snippet for 'The Midnight Hour' by Marcus Woodburn with a 5-star rating, describing it as a fantasy children's book.
A book titled 'The Midnight Hour' by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder, placed outdoors on a rock with a stream in the background. The cover features a purple and black illustration of Big Ben with a glowing clock and dark swirling tentacles, surrounde
Promotion of a trilogy of books titled 'The Complete Midnight Hour Trilogy' by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder, with three illustrated book covers featuring supernatural and urban scenes, set against a dark red background with creepy hands reaching f
Book cover of 'The Midnight Hunt' and two copies of 'The Midnight Hour' by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder, with a plush hedgehog toy and a patterned gold and black background.
A darkly lit book cover titled 'Mitternachtsstunde' with green glowing elements, featuring an animated girl's face, a small animal, and various symbols and text in German.
A young girl sitting at a table with a box of OwlCrate book subscription items, holding a book titled 'The Midnight Hour.' She is smiling and surrounded by various book-related items, a plush bat, and a toy mouse. The table is near a window with clos
Cover of the book 'The Midnight Hour' by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder, featuring an illustration of Big Ben with colorful smoke and fireworks in the background, and a quote about Emily's character.
Five-star reviews on the Waterstones website, for The Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder.
Illustration of a children's book cover titled 'The Midnight Hour' with colorful artwork and text, promoting February book favorites by Dubray.
Close-up of a person's hand with colorful, artistic nail art holding a book titled 'The Midnight' with illustrations of mystical and fantasy elements on the cover.