For younger readers: I Was a Rat!, Count Karlstein, Two Crafty Criminals!, Spring-Heeled Jack, and The Scarecrow and His Servant. Philip Pullman is the author of many other beloved novels. It began with La Belle Sauvage and continues with The Secret Commonwealth. The Book of Dust, Pullman’s eagerly anticipated return to the world of His Dark Materials, will also be a book in three parts. Pullman was knighted for his services to literature in the 2019 New Year Honours. He is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy, which has been named one of the top 100 books of all time by Newsweek and one of the all-time greatest novels by Entertainment Weekly. PHILIP PULLMAN is one of the most acclaimed writers working today.
"Pullman is quite possibly a genius." -Newsweekĭon't miss Philip Pullman's epic new trilogy set in the world of His Dark Materials! "Arguably the best juvenile fantasy novel of the past twenty years." -The Washington Post Winner of the Guardian Prize for Children's Fiction North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world.Ĭan one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want.īut what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other.Ī masterwork of storytelling and suspense, Philip Pullman's award-winning The Golden Compass is the first in the His Dark Materials series, which continues with The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal-including her friend Roger. Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. The modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an “All-Time Greatest Novel” and Newsweek hailed as a “Top 100 Book of All Time.” Philip Pullman takes listeners to a world where humans have animal familiars and where parallel universes are within reach.
HIS DARK MATERIALS IS NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING DAFNE KEEN, RUTH WILSON, ANDREW SCOTT, AND LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA!įeaturing an exclusive bonus interview between the author, Philip Pullman, and His Dark Materials star, Ruth Wilson.