Film tie-in version. The second in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. His ‘Dark Materials’, is the story of Lyra, a young girl with an exceptional destiny. Brought up in Jordan College, Oxford Lyra uncovers a secret about her mysterious guardian which leads to some dangerous questioning. It also marks the beginning of Lyra’s search for her friend Roger, a search that takes her to the ice kingdoms of the North where armoured bears rule. Lyra’s courage and stubborn determination lead her on this mission of incredible danger in this brilliant and imaginative story. It’s completely original and totally spellbinding; a true classic that will stand the test of time much in the way Tolkien’s famous work has done.
"Only Rankin can light and photograph faces with
such intensity and drama. I'm delighted with this vision of my
story." Philip Pullman
The second volume in the ground-breaking His Dark Materials
trilogy, now with a breath-taking new cover
creatively directed and photographed by the legendary Rankin.
"What is he? A friend, or an enemy?"
"He is a murderer."
Will has just killed a man. He's on the run.
His escape will take him far beyond his own world, to the eerie
disquiet of a deserted city, and to a girl, Lyra. Her fate is strangely
linked to his own, and together they must find the most
powerful weapon in all the worlds...
Rankin's lens has exquisitely captured the bond between
character and daemon; the soul of the stories
The His Dark Materials trilogy is award-winning, internationally
bestselling and a modern classic.
Now a major BBC/HBO television series, with an all-star cast
of Ruth Wilson, James McAvoy, Anne-Marie Duff and Lin-Manuel Miranda
Philip Pullman one of the most acclaimed writers working today.
He is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy (Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass), which has been named one of the top 100 novels of all time by Newsweek. He has also won many distinguished prizes, including the Carnegie Medal for Northern Lights (and the reader-voted ‘Carnegie of Carnegies’ for the best children’s book of the past seventy years); the Whitbread (now Costa) Award for The Amber Spyglass; and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, in honour of his body of work. The first volume of Philip Pullman’s long-awaited trilogy The Book of Dust, set in the same world as His Dark Materials, published in 2017, and the second volume followed in 2019.
