PHILIP PULLMAN is one of the most acclaimed writers working today.
He is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy, which has been
named one of the top 100 books of all time by Newsweek and one of
the all-time greatest novels by Entertainment Weekly. Pullman was
knighted for his services to literature in the 2019 New Year
Honours.
The Book of Dust, Pullman’s eagerly anticipated return to the world
of His Dark Materials, will also be a book in three parts. It began
with La Belle Sauvage and continues with The Secret
Commonwealth.
Philip Pullman is the author of many other beloved novels. For
younger readers: I Was a Rat!, Count Karlstein, Two Crafty
Criminals!, Spring-Heeled Jack, and The Scarecrow and His Servant.
For older readers: the Sally Lockhart quartet (The Ruby in the
Smoke, The Shadow in the North, The Tiger in the Well, and The Tin
Princess), The White Mercedes, and The Broken Bridge. He has
written a magnificent collection, Fairy Tales from the Brothers
Grimm, and his essays and lectures on writing and storytelling have
been gathered in a volume called Dæmon Voices: On Stories and
Storytelling.
Philip Pullman lives in Oxford, England.
“Pullman has created the last great fantasy masterpiece of the
twentieth century.”—The Cincinnati Enquirer
“Absorbing. . . . Like Harry Potter creator J. K. Rowling,
[Pullman] invents a world filled with strange divinations and
wordplays.”—Newsweek
“A literary masterpiece . . . [that] caps the most magnificent
fantasy series since The Lord of the Rings and puts Harry Potter to
shame. . . . A page-turning story that builds to a powerful
finish.”—Oregonian
“Impossible to put down, so firmly and relentlessly does Pullman
draw you into his tale. . . . [A] gripping saga pitting the
magnetic young Lyra Belacqua and her friend Will Parry against the
forces of both Heaven and Hell.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"In concluding the spellbinding Dark Materials trilogy, Pullman produces what may well be the most controversial children's book of recent years," wrote PW. As he asks readers to examine the ideas of organized religion, "Pullman riffs on the elemental chords of classical myth and fairytale. Stirring and highly provocative." Ages 12-up. (May) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
"Pullman has created the last great fantasy masterpiece of the
twentieth century."-The Cincinnati Enquirer
"Absorbing. . . . Like Harry Potter creator J. K. Rowling,
[Pullman] invents a world filled with strange divinations and
wordplays."-Newsweek
"A literary masterpiece . . . [that] caps the most
magnificent fantasy series since The Lord of the Rings and
puts Harry Potter to shame. . . . A page-turning story that builds
to a powerful finish."-Oregonian
"Impossible to put down, so firmly and relentlessly does Pullman
draw you into his tale. . . . [A] gripping saga pitting the
magnetic young Lyra Belacqua and her friend Will Parry against the
forces of both Heaven and Hell."-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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