Orphans Of The Tide: Orphans Of The Tide (Book 1)

Description

Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2021, a breathtaking fantasy adventure for fans of His Dark Materials that The Times calls Unputdownable .

The City was built on a sharp mountain that jutted improbably from the sea, and the sea kept trying to claim it back. That grey morning, once the tide had retreated, a whale was found on a rooftop.

When a mysterious boy washes in with the tide, the citizens believe he s the Enemy - the god who drowned the world - come again to cause untold chaos.

Only Ellie, a fearless young inventor living in a workshop crammed with curiosities, believes he s innocent.

But the Enemy can take possession of any human body and the ruthless Inquisition are determined to destroy it forever.

To save the boy, Ellie must prove who he really is - even if that means revealing her own dangerous secret . . .

Unputdownable - The Times

Enthralling - The Daily Express

Sumptuously atmospheric . . . tirelessly inventive -The Daily Telegraph

Gripping - The Guardian

Energetic and inventive -Sunday Times

Gripping and original - The Observer

Singularly brilliant - Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Girl of Ink and Stars and The Mercies

Compellingly inventive and unpredictable - Piers Torday, author of The Last Wild

A terrific debut of strange myths and dark secrets - The Bookseller (Editor s Choice)

About the Author

Struan Murray is Scottish and grew up in Edinburgh, the youngest of a large, rowdy family of redheads. His first publication was a drawing in Pingu Magazine, aged seven, but his debut novel, Orphans of the Tide has attracted rather more critical acclaim. When he s not writing, Struan is a lecturer at the University of Oxford.

Manuel Å umberac was born in 1988 in Pula, Croatia. He obtained a Masters in Animation and New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He is a member of Filmmakers Association of Croatia. Manuel works in the fields of animation and illustration to produce animated films, music videos, children s books and book covers. He has received numerous awards for his work.