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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This feeling came to a head during a visit she paid to the northern lands (a year after the witch Yelena Pazhets had nearly killed her in Oxford: the time when Lyra had been saved by the birds). The curse of Bolvangar had been lifted, but the northern lands had still not recovered from the climatic devastation Lord Asriel had caused. However, the retreat of the snows and the loosening of the permafrost meant that all kinds of archaeological work was possible, and Jordan College sponsored a dig in the region of Trollesund to investigate some recently discovered settlements of the Proto-Fisher people. Dakota Blue Richards as Lyra with Nicole Kidman as Mrs Coulter in The Golden Compass (2007). Photograph: Laurie Sparham/New Line Cinema Pullman’s imagination soars . . . A literary rollercoaster ride you won’t want to miss.”— The Boston Globe

April message". Philip-Pullman.com. April 2005. Archived from the original on 16 October 2005 . Retrieved 12 January 2008. Dafne Keen as Lyra, with Pantalaimon, in the BBC’s His Dark Materials. Photograph: Screen Grab/BBC/Bad Wolf/HBO

Marco, Nerea; Echevarría, Carlota; Reyna, Pablo C. (April 2018), "Entrevista a Philip Pullman", El Templo de las Mil Puertas, pp.20–21 , retrieved 12 September 2020 {{ citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year ( link) Well, not quite. As early as Chapter 15 of Northern Lights, I’d said of Lyra that “Being a practised liar doesn’t mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it’s that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.” Imagination, as Pantalaimon understands, is not just a superficial facility for making things up. It’s much deeper, much more complex and mysterious than that, and it involves the whole of our being. A good deal of my own thinking about the imagination has been illuminated by William Blake, of course, and also by Iain McGilchrist’s inexhaustible book The Master and His Emissary, which explores the profound difference between the left and right halves of the brain. Ever since Lyra Silvertongue and her dæmon Pantalaimon had been reunited, following their terrible parting on the shores of the world of the dead, Lyra had wanted to ask him about the time he’d spent away from her. But she had the obscure sense that she shouldn’t ask him directly: he would tell her when he wanted to. However, time went past, and still he didn’t, and it began to trouble her.

So here is a story that was the best I could do at the time, written with all the power and all the love I had, about the things I think most important in the world. I think it was worth writing. I hope you think it's worth reading.

The second volume, The Secret Commonwealth, was published on 3 October 2019, and begins with Lyra as a 20-year-old undergraduate. It involves her journeying to the Far East via the Levant. [3] [14] [15] [16] [17] The Secret Commonwealth takes its title from a compilation of folklore by Robert Kirk that Pullman has said is one of his favourite books. [16] The third book [ edit ] Philip Pullman in conversation with Michael Rosen". Goldsmiths, University of London Centre for Language, Culture and Learning Blog. Archived from the original on 28 June 2021 . Retrieved 3 January 2022.