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The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materials 3

The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materials 3

  • now a major BBC TV series

From the world of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials- now a major critically acclaimed BBC series

‘We’re going to the land of the dead and we’re going to come back.’

Will and Lyra, whose fates are bound together by powers beyond their own worlds, have been violently separated.

But they must find each other, for ahead of them lies the greatest war that has ever been – and a journey to a dark place from which no one has ever returned . . .

Reviews

  • Gripping and extraordinary.

    Sunday Times

  • An astonishing imaginative feat – Pullman has conjured a universe of an intensity and beauty that leave one gasping . . . for sheer inventiveness he has no equal.

    Telegraph

  • Pullman is such an original and compelling storyteller that his books make reading an aerobic activity; they literally leave you breathless.

    Daily Mail

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About the Author

Philip Pullman

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.

Philip Pullman

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