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The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three

Everyman's Children's Classics has more than 50 titles in print. It offers the finest editions currently available of the world's greatest children's books in handsome, full cloth hardcover bindings. 
 
The library brings back into print major illustrators such as Ivan Bilibin, Kate Greenaway, Arthur Rackham, Nicolas Bentley, Walter Crane, Aubrey Beardsley, Edward Ardizzone, W.Heath Robinson and Mervyn Peake.

I Was a Rat! Or, The Scarlet Slippers and The Scarecrow and his Servant

The Firework-Maker's Daughter, Clockwork, or All Wound Up

Once Upon a Time in the North

Lyra's Oxford

Illustrated Edition

A short story from the world of His Dark Materials and the Book of Dust

The Collectors

The Ruby in the Smoke

The Shadow in the North

The Tiger in the Well

The Tin Princess

The Subtle Knife: The Graphic Novel

The Gas-Fitters' Ball

Thunderbolt's Waxwork

The Firework Maker's Daughter

Jack Reacher is a former major in the US Military Police who, since leaving the army, has drifted round the wide open spaces of America, hitchhiking or on buses, wherever the whim takes him. He has no permanent address, no job, no family ties, no car, no luggage, no mobile phone, no credit card - all he carries with him is a folding toothbrush. 
Reacher is never looking for trouble, but somehow trouble always find him. He is the ultimate hero for our troubled times, with a keen moral compass and sense of justice, even if he is often prepared to take the law into his own hands: he says he doesn't want to put the world to rights, he just doesn't like people who put it to wrongs.

(Jack Reacher, Book 1): Now a hit Prime Video series

Killing Floor

Clockwork

Full-cast dramatisations of Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass

His Dark Materials: The Complete BBC Radio Collection

Puss In Boots

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[Serpentine] brings with it all the familiar delights of Pullman's work: its effortless clarity, its intelligence, its ineffable mix of coziness and darkness, innocence and experience.

Tom Duxbury's linocut-inspired illustrations give Serpentine a handsome look and accessible feel . . . Serpentine offers aficionados a poignant return to Lyra and Pan.

Foreshadowing the events of The Secret Commonwealth, this gorgeously illustrated volume is a treat for fans of the fantasy.

A short story from the world of His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust

'Lyra Silvertongue, you're very welcome . . . Yes, I know your new name. Serafina Pekkala told me everything about your exploits' 
 
Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon have left the events of His Dark Materials far behind. 
In this snapshot of their forever-changed lives they return to the North to visit an old friend, 
where we will learn that things are not exactly as they seem . . . 
 
Illustrated throughout by Tom Duxbury, the perfect re-entry for fans of His Dark Materials 
and a wonderful companion to The Book of Dust, 
Serpentine is a brand-new special read for Pullman fans old and new.

**Don't miss the second series of His Dark Materials on BBC One this November.** 
 
A brand new short story set in the world of His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust by master storyteller, Philip Pullman. 
 
 Serpentine is a perfect gift for every Pullman fan, new and old. 
 
 'Lyra Silvertongue, you're very welcome . . . Yes, I know your new name. Serafina Pekkala told me everything about your exploits' 
 
 Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon have left the events of His Dark Materials far behind. 
 
 In this snapshot of their forever-changed lives they return to the North to visit an old friend, where we will learn that things are not exactly as they seem . . . 
 
 Illustrated throughout by Tom Duxbury, the perfect re-entry for fans of His Dark Materials and a wonderful companion to The Book of Dust. 
 
'It's a stunning achievement, the universe Pullman has created and continues to build on' 
 New York Times 
 
 'Pullman is an easeful storyteller and an intricate and inventive world-builder, and everything he has to write is worth reading' Telegraph

Philip Pullman (Author) 
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. 
 
Tom Duxbury (Illustrator) 
Tom Duxbury is an illustrator from the moors of West Yorkshire. His work is influenced by lino-printing, which he uses to depict feeling, movement and nostalgia. He is inspired by the spirit of nature and the narrative of a landscape. His work is represented by Artists Partners Ltd.

Serpentine

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[Serpentine] brings with it all the familiar delights of Pullman's work: its effortless clarity, its intelligence, its ineffable mix of coziness and darkness, innocence and experience.

Tom Duxbury's linocut-inspired illustrations give Serpentine a handsome look and accessible feel . . . Serpentine offers aficionados a poignant return to Lyra and Pan.

Foreshadowing the events of The Secret Commonwealth, this gorgeously illustrated volume is a treat for fans of the fantasy.

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