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by Philip Pullman (Author)
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "UNPUTDOWNABLE."--The Washington Post - An Entertainment Weekly All-Time Greatest Novel - A Newsweek Top 100 Book of All Time - The Inspiration for the HBO Original Series His Dark Materials
DON'T MISS THE EPIC FINALE TO LYRA'S STORY: THE ROSE FIELD, AVAILABLE NOW! The spellbinding sequel to the modern fantasy classic The Golden Compass. "The story gallops with ferocious momentum . . . Devilishly inventive."--The New York Times Book Review Lost in a new world, Lyra finds Will--a boy on the run, a murderer--a worthy and welcome ally. For this is a world where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and witches share the skies with troops of angels. Each is searching--Lyra for the meaning of Dark Matter, Will for his missing father--but what they find instead is a deadly secret, a knife of untold power. And neither Lyra nor Will suspects how tightly their lives, their loves, their destinies are bound together . . . until they are split apart.Look for the modern fantasy classics of HIS DARK MATERIALS:
The Golden Compass - The Subtle Knife - The Amber Spyglass
And Lyra's adventures continue in THE BOOK OF DUST:
La Belle Sauvage - The Secret Commonwealth - The Rose Field
Author Biography
Philip Pullman is one of the most acclaimed writers working today. He is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass), which has been named one of the top 100 novels of all time by Newsweek and one of the all-time greatest novels by Entertainment Weekly. He is also the author of another trilogy set in the same world, The Book of Dust (La Belle Sauvage, The Secret Commonwealth, and The Rose Field) as well as numerous other much-loved novels, a collection of fairy tales, and a volume of essays and speeches on writing. He has won many distinguished prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread (now Costa) Award, Parents' Choice Gold Awards, and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Pullman was knighted for services to literature in the New Years Honours 2019. He lives in Oxford, England.
