Philip Pullman

Melissa Castrillon

The first volume in Philip Pullman's groundbreaking HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy, now a thrilling, critically acclaimed BBC/HBO television series. First published in 1995, and acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, this first book in the series won the UK's top awards for children's literature. "Without this child, we shall alldie." 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... This gift edition has a beautiful cover from celebrated illustrator, Melissa Castrillon.

His Dark Materials: Northern Lights (Gift Edition)

Ann-Sophie

Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it, Lyra. That's original sin.

Erika Stonehouse

"Yes; I can't prevent it," said the Master, and Lyra didn't notice at the time what an odd thing that was to say. 

Chiara Carbone

Can you imagine my astonishment, in turn, at learning that part of my own nature was female, and bird-formed, and beautiful?

…it was as if the mulefa and the seedpod really were one creature, which by a miracle could disassemble itself and put itself together again. 

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