Philip Pullman

Nicholas Wright

With sales of three-quarters of a million copies last year alone, Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials is already acknowledged as a classic. A cunning blend of traditional children's adventure with sophisticated fantasy and science fiction, it follows the escapades of Lyra and Will in their parallel worlds. Dramatized by award-winning playwright Nicholas Wright for the National Theatre.

His Dark Materials

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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