Philip Pullmans classic trilogy is now available as a stunning large-format bind-up edition. Since the first volume was published in 1955 & has now been filmed as The Golden Compass" the trilogy has been acclaimed as a modern masterpiece & has won the UKs top awards for childrens literature. Today the fabulous story of Lyra & her daemon is read & loved by adults & children alike. The extraordinary story moves between parallel universes. Beginning in Oxford it takes Lyra & her animal-daemon Pantalaimon on a dangerous rescue mission to the ice kingdoms of the far north where she begins to learn about the mysterious particles they call Dust
- a substance for which a terrible war between different worlds will be fought... This trilogy is one of the great imaginative works in the English Language. & it contains one of the best villains in all literature
- Terry Jones. Phillip Pullman has won the CILIP Carnegie Medal the Guardian Childrens Fiction Award the Childrens book of the Year
- British Book Awards the Whitbread Book of the Year the Eleanor Farjeon Award & the Astrid Lindgren Award."