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The Waterstones Round Up: May's Best Children's Books
Posted on 24th April 2026 by Mark Skinner Discover what bookish treats are coming for the kids this May with our curated roundup of the month's finest children's books. Fans of dragons are going to be in seventh heaven this May with both the second instalment in Struan Murray's acclaimed Dragonborn series and Jamie Hammond's fire-breathingly fantastic Dragonflare soaring onto shelves.
age 8+ Wild, twisty, heartfelt shapeshifting dragon series start. Parents need to know that Dragonborn is the start of a fantasy series by Scottish author Struan Murray about a secret island where young dragons are trained. Alex, a 12-year-old girl who always thought she was human, is the newest arrival on the island of Skralla. She suffers injuries in human form sparring young dragons including black eyes, cuts, and burns.
DRAGONBORN | Kirkus Reviews
An absorbing fantasy centered on a resilient female protagonist facing growth, change, and self-empowerment. In Florence’s middle-grade fantasy novel, a young girl’s heart is tested in the face of an evil, spreading Darkness. Eleven-year-old Lydia, “freckle-cheeked and round-eyed, with hair the color of pine bark and fair skin,” is struggling with the knowledge that she has reached the age to apprentice as an herbalist.
Dragonborn - Books from Scotland
By Struan Murray The electric new fantasy series for fans of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief and Impossible Creatures, perfect for readers aged 9-12. Life is no fun for Alex Evans. Ever since her dad’s death, her overprotective mother has smothered her with unbreakable rules and unspoken fears. When the frustration inside Alex finally gets too big to bear, it rushes to the surface. And flames spill from her mouth. Because Alex is a dragon.
2024: A tinderbox year for disinformation
With geopolitical tensions, technological advances and political polarisation at an all-time high, what can be done in this new era of information warfare? It is said that truth is the first casualty of war. In 2024, truth has not just been wounded, it has been taken hostage, manipulated and reshaped into something unrecognisable. The battlefield is the mind, the weapon is disinformation and the casualties may well be the very foundations of democratic society. The old rules no longer apply.
The Secret of the Moonshard
'Sensational storytelling' - AF Steadman, author of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief. The thrilling new magical adventure from Branford Boase winner Struan Murray. Domino has lived her whole life believing that just one drop of magic could kill her. Held in a floating laboratory by scheming Science Barons, she has never known a single day of freedom.
SHIPWRECK ISLAND
From the Orphans of the Tide series , Vol. 2 by Struan Murray ‧ A hoped-for refuge becomes anything but for two tween fugitives in this muddled middle volume. Somehow surviving a three-month voyage on a makeshift raft over a flooded world, Ellie and Seth make landfall at last just in time to be swept up in a power struggle between a lonely young queen and a smooth-talking aristocrat.
Eternity Engine - Books from Scotland
By Struan Murray, illus. by Manuel Šumberac The final instalment in the breathtaking Orphans of the Tide trilogy, which The Times calls ‘Unputdownable’. The seas have parted to reveal the remains of humanity’s lost empire and opened a path from Shipwreck Island to the Enemy’s City. Now only Ellie Lancaster and her orphan friends can prevent a terrible war. As Kate marches north at the head of her army, panic infests the City as the Enemy’s strength grows.
ORPHANS OF THE TIDE
by Lois Lowry ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, 1989 The author of the Anastasia books as well as more serious fiction (Rabble Starkey, 1987) offers her first historical fiction—a story about the escape of the Jews from Denmark in 1943. Five years younger than Lisa in Carol Matas' Lisa's War (1989), Annemarie Johansen has, at 10, known three years of Nazi occupation.
Size fractionated NET‐Seq reveals a conserved architecture of transcription units around yeast genes
1 INTRODUCTION Eukaryotic genomes from yeast to humans are pervasively transcribed on both strands, upstream, downstream or antisense to regions annotated as genes (Mellor et al., 2016; Murray & Mellor, 2016; Murray et al., 2012, 2015; Nguyen et al., 2014; Pelechano et al., 2013; Thomas et al., 2020) but challenges remain in precisely mapping where each transcription event starts and ends.
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