About the author:
Philip Pullman.
Contents.
About the author.
The works of Philip Pullman.
His Dark Materials.
The Sally Lockhart quartet.
More information.
About the author.
Philip Pullman is one of the
finest and most popular
children’s authors writing today.
He has won the Carnegie
Medal, the Guardian Children’s
Fiction Award, the Smarties
Prize and the prize for
Children’s Book of the Year at
the British Book Awards.
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The works of Philip Pullman.
Non-series books:
1972 The Haunted Storm
1976 Galatea
1982 Count Karlstein
1987 How to be Cool
1989 Spring-Heeled Jack
1990 The Broken Bridge
1992 The White Mercedes
1993 The Wonderful Story of Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp
1995 Clockwork
The Firework-Maker's Daughter
1998 Mossycoat
The Butterfly Tattoo
1999 I was a Rat!
2000 Puss in Boots: The Adventures of That Most Enterprising Feline
2004 The Scarecrow and his Servant
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The works of Philip Pullman.
The New-Cut Gang:
Companion Books:
1994 Thunderbolt's Waxwork
1995 The Gasfitter's Ball
2003 Lyra's Oxford
The Sally Lockhart quartet:
1985 The Ruby in the Smoke
1986 The Shadow in the North
1990 The Tiger in the Well
1994 The Tin Princess
His Dark Materials:
1995 Northern Lights
1997 The Subtle Knife
2000 The Amber Spyglass
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His Dark Materials.
Northern
Lights
The Subtle
Knife
The Amber
Spyglass
Northern Lights.
The first book in the
HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy
When Lyra’s friend Roger disappears, she and
her dæmon, Pantalaimon, determine to find
him. The ensuing quest leads them to the
bleak splendor or the North, where armoured
bears rule the ice and witch-queens fly through
the frozen skies - and where a team of
scientists is conducting experiments too
horrible to be spoken about.
Lyra overcomes these strange terrors, only to
find something yet more perilous waiting for her
- something with consequences which may
even reach beyond the Northern Lights …
The Subtle Knife.
The second book in the
HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy
Will is twelve years old and he’s just killed a man.
Now he’s on his own, on the run, determined to
discover the truth about his father’s disappearance.
Then Will steps through a window in the air into
another world, and finds himself with a companion a strange, savage little girl called Lyra. Like Will, she
has a mission which she intends to carry out at all
costs.
But the world of Cittàgazze is a strange and
unsettling place. Deadly, soul eating Spectres stalk
its streets, while high above, the wingbeats of distant
angels sound against the sky. And in the mysterious
Torre degli Angeli lurks Cittàgazze’s most important
secret - an object which people from many worlds
would kill to posses …
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The Amber Spyglass.
The third and concluding book in the
HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy
Lyra and Will, the ordinary children who were left in
such extrodinary danger at the end of Book Two, find
themselves in the final part of the story facing even
greater perils. But there are old friends who come to
their aid, not least Iorek Byrnison, the armoured
bear, and the scientist Dr Mary Malone. There are
new allies: the Gallivespians, hand-high dragonfly
riders with poison spurs, and the mulefa, strange
wheeled creatures with the power to see Dust. And
there are new dangers, including a journey to the
worst world of all - a journey that exerts a terrible
cost on both children …
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The Amber Spyglass.
… But they will not be children for much longer. And
as they come to the end of their childhood, not only
are they vulnerable to the Spectres, those
shimmering destroyers of adults’dæmons, but they
have to face, without knowing it, the challenge posed
by the fate that has been approaching Lyra all her
life.
And the survival of everything finally comes to
depend on one simple action: one simple response
to one simple story.
Like all the greatest stories, this one is deep and has
far to go. At its simplest it is a story of courage and
humanity about a boy and a girl with a destiny to
fulfil. At its deepest it whirls the reader into a
universe of marvels and dazzling thought, and you
know you are treading with the author in territory
previously unvisited by rhyme or prose.
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The Sally Lockhart quartet.
The Ruby in
the Smoke
The Shadow in
the North
The Tiger in
the Well
The Tin
Princess
The Ruby in the Smoke.
‘Have you ever heard the phrase The Seven Blessings?’
That question causes a man to die of shock, and
propels Sally Lockhart into a desperate adventure that
will expose the deepest secrets of the corrupt and
murderous opium trade. Sally is sixteen when the story
begins, orphaned and alone. She's had an
unconventional education: her knowledge of English
Literature, French, History, Art and Music is nonexistent, but she has a thorough grounding in military
tactics, can run a business, ride like a Cossack and
shoot straight with a pistol. When her father is drowned
in suspicious circumstances in the South China Sea,
Sally soon finds herself in terrible danger too - and at
the rotten heart of it all lies the deadly secret of the ruby
in the smoke.
The Shadow in the North.
Set against the backdrop of a veiled and misty
Victorian underworld, the story of Sally
Lockhart-- female entrepreneur and expert
financial advisor--and her allies Jim and Fred,
begins to unfold as news of the disappearance
of the steamship Ingrid Linde reaches the ears
of the intrepid trio.
As they investigate the loss, they are
unwittingly drawn into a dark and sinister plot
fuelled by the business dealings of the cruel
and heartless Bellman. As their investigations
continue, strange and supernatural forces
intercede, leading them deeper into the
menacing back streets of Victorian London and
taking them on a journey into the very heart of
true evil.
The Tiger in the Well.
A terrifying thriller set in Victorian
London. Sally Lockhart is content - her
business is thriving, she has a
comfortable house, and her adored
baby daughter Harriet. But her life is
about to change - or rather someone
has already changed it. Sally's history
has been altered, and her child is
suddenly no longer hers. To save
Harriet, Sally must abandon her
comfortable existence and hide - until
it's time to fight back.
The Tin Princess.
Sally Lockhart's friend and partner-inadventure Jim Taylor has just solved a
mystery. For years he's been searching
for Adelaide, the little girl enslaved by
toothless crone Mrs. Holland in The
Ruby in the Smoke. And now he's found
her - just as she's about to become a
princess. Crown Princess of Razkavia,
to be exact, and a princess in danger.
Her future husband is desperate to
protect his bride, and employs Jim as
their bodyguard - Razkavia's quaint little
streets are full of danger.
More information.
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