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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

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.

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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

Thunderbolt's Waxwork

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Lambeth, South London, 1894. Meet the New Cut Gang - Sharky Bob, Benny, Thunderbolt, Bridie and the Peretti twins: the greatest detectives since Sexton Blake. 
 
They inhabit the streets around Lambeth Walk and the New Cut in 1894, a place bristling with gangsters, bookies, pickpockets, horse thieves and the occasional policeman. But who's passing counterfeit coins 'round Lambeth? Surely not Thunderbolt's dad, who's just been arrested... 
 
© Philip Pullman 1994 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

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.

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