Philip Pullman returns to the world of His Dark Materials with this magnificent first volume of The Book of Dust - now available in paperback and illustrated throughout by Chris Wormell.
Philip Pullman was born in Norwich and educated in England,
Zimbabwe, Australia and Wales. He studied English at Exeter
College, Oxford.
His first children's book, Count Karlstein, was published in 1982.
To date, he has published thirty-three books, read by children and
adults alike. His most famous work is the His Dark Materials
trilogy. These books have been honoured by several prizes including
the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children's Book Prize, and (for
The Amber Spyglass) the Whitbread Book of the Year Award - the
first time that prize had been given to a children's book. Pullman
has received numerous other awards, including the Eleanor Farjeon
Award and the Astrid Lindgren Award. He was knighted in the 2019
New Year's Honours List for Services to Literature.
Fans of His Dark Materials will find themselves joyfully immersed
in a familiar world . . . meanwhile, awaiting first-time readers is
all the pleasure of commencing their own journey into this most
captivating of universes at the very beginning of Lyra's story
*Independent*
A rich, imaginative, vividly characterised rite-of-passage tale
*Nicolette Jones, The Sunday Times*
High-octane adventure accompanies ingenious plotting
*The Times*
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