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Struan Murray.

Writer · United Kingdom

Struan Murray: Scottish middle-grade author of the Orphans of the Tide trilogy — moody, atmospheric flooded-world fantasy in the Reeve / Hardinge tradition, for ages 10–13.

Struan Murray is a Scottish author best known for the Orphans of the Tide middle-grade trilogy (Orphans of the Tide, The Shipwreck City, The Spear of Stars), atmospheric fantasy-adventure novels set in a flooded-world city built on the rooftops of a sunken civilisation. Murray's voice is moody, well-paced and image-rich, in the Philip Reeve / Frances Hardinge dark-middle-grade-fantasy tradition. A reliable contemporary UK middle-grade fantasy author for ages 10–13, particularly for readers ready for the darker, more morally complex end of middle-grade fantasy.