Struan Murray is Scottish and grew up in Edinburgh, the youngest of a large, rowdy family of redheads. His debut novel, Orphans of the Tide , won the prestigious Branford Boase Award, and was included in the Guardian 's 'Best children's books of 2020', while the first book in his latest series, Dragonborn , was a New York Times bestseller. When he's not writing, Struan is a lecturer at the University of Oxford.