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His Dark Materials

Philip Pullman

  • 981 pages · about 16 hours
  • First published 2000
  • 40 editions
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1 About this book

Philip Pullman's classic trilogy is now available as a stunning, large-format, bind-up edition. Since the first volume was published in 1955, and has now been filmed as "The Golden Compass", the trilogy has been acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, and has won the UK's top awards for children's literature. Today, the fabulous story of Lyra and her daemon is read and loved by adults and children alike.

The extraordinary story moves between parallel universes. Beginning in Oxford, it takes Lyra and her animal-daemon Pantalaimon on a dangerous rescue mission to the ice kingdoms of the far north, where she begins to learn about the mysterious particles they call Dust - a substance for which a terrible war between different worlds will be fought...

Good for readers who want: fantasy, adventure, magic, and a long read.

  • Fantasy
  • Adventure
  • Fantasy & Magic
  • Magic
  • Children's fiction
  • Lyra Belacqua
  • Non-Classifiable
  • Kidnapping

2 About Philip Pullman

Born 1946

Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer. He is best known for the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials. The first volume, Northern Lights (1995), won the Carnegie Medal and later the "Carnegie of Carnegies". The third volume, The Amber Spyglass (2000), won the Whitbread Award. In 2017, he started a companion trilogy, The Book of Dust, of which the final novel, The Rose Field, was published in October 2025.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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