The Moonlight World

Dare you steal the king’s key? What evil magic hides in his baby skull? The Yak-Yaks are on the war path and their awful king wants to eat Min, his prisoner. Zak is desperately trying to rescue his sister but he has been tricked and is about to be flung down a rocky cliff by a ghastly spirit. And who are the Rising and will they all be slaughtered in one last battle in the desert? Is this how it will all end? Will their father ever be rescued? Be warned ... great excitement await you in this final book of the Midnight Children trilogy. Don’t you dare scream!

Tunku Halim is dubbed as Asia’s Stephen King and by delving into Malay myth, legends and folklore, his writing is often regarded as ‘World Gothic’. His novel, Dark Demon Rising (1997), was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award whilst his second novel, Vermillion Eye (2000), is used as a study text in The National University of Singapore’s Language and Literature course. He has also won first prize in a Fellowship of Australian Writers’ short story competition and has had three consecutive wins in Malaysia’s Popular-Star Readers’ Choice Awards between 2015 and 2017.