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"Remarkable writing: courageous and
dangerous as the best art should be." The Times
"Only Rankin can light and photograph
faces with such intensity and drama. I'm delighted with this
vision of my story." Philip Pullman
The first volume in the ground-breaking His Dark Materials
trilogy, now with a breath-taking new cover
creatively directed and photographed by the legendary Rankin.
Lyra Belacqua and her animal daemon live half-wild
and carefree among scholars of Jordan College, Oxford.
The
destiny that awaits her will take her to the frozen lands of
the Arctic, where witch-clans reign and ice-bears fight. Her extraordinary
journey will have immeasurable consequences far beyond
her own world...
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
