His Dark Materials: Gift Edition including all three novels: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

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He has also won many distinguished prizes, including the Carnegie Medal for The Golden Compass (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; a Booker Prize long-list nomination (The Amber Spyglass); Parents' Choice Gold Awards (The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass); and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, in honor of his body of work. The first adventure in the Folio Society editions of ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ series, Enid Blyton’s The Enchanted Wood features Jonathan Burton’s enchanting illustrations and a new introduction by Michael Morpurgo. She is the author of Cleopatra, Queen, Lover, Legend and of Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen . By July 2018, Dafne Keen had been provisionally cast as Lyra Belacqua, Ruth Wilson as Marisa Coulter, James McAvoy as Lord Asriel, Lin-Manuel Miranda as Lee Scoresby and Clarke Peters as the Master of Jordan College.

Lyra Belacqua and her animal daemon live half-wild and carefree among scholars of Jordan College, Oxford.Will is independent and responsible for his age, having looked after his mentally ill mother for several years. Sweet as in, if you'd be taking her food away, she'll just sweetly bite your hand tearing your flesh apart and making you bleed gallons. It follows the coming of age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes. A HBO/BBC television series based on the novels was broadcast between November 2019 and February 2023. She draws Lyra into a trap, but birds mysteriously rescue her and Pan and she makes the acquaintance of an alchemist who was formerly the witch's lover.

Maroon, green and orange cloth respectively, each with gilt titles and Volume II with gilt-blocked dagger motif to upper board, in unclipped pictorial dust-jackets designed by David Scutt, with gilt Library Association Carnegie Medal label to Volume I. The fantasy elements include witches and armoured polar bears; the trilogy also alludes to concepts from physics, philosophy, and theology. Lyra falls out of Scoresby's balloon and is taken by the panserbjørne to the castle of their usurping king, Iofur Raknison. The play was successful and was revived (with a different cast and a revised script) for a second run between November 2004 and April 2005. Although he is the overarching antagonist of the series, the Authority remains in the background; he makes his only appearance late in The Amber Spyglass.Will and Lyra, whose fates are bound together by powers beyond their own worlds, have been violently separated. Will becomes the bearer of the Subtle Knife, a tool forged three hundred years before by Cittàgazze's scientists from the same alloy used to make the guillotine in Bolvangar. Dark blue boards with spine titles in gilt, except for The Amber Spyglass, which has a wraparound illustrated cover. Volume 1 has a presentation inscription in blue ink on the title page, 'For Pat, with my best wishes - Philip Pullman'. The three novels have won a number of awards, most notably the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year prize, won by The Amber Spyglass.