Philip Pullman's classic trilogy is now available as a stunning bind-up edition. Since the first volume was published in 1995 & has now been filmed as The Golden Compass" the trilogy has been acclaimed as a modern masterpiece & has won the UK's top awards for children's 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 bestillains in all literature". (Terry Jones). Philip Pullman has won the CILIP Carnegie Medal the " Guardian" Children's Fiction Award the Children's Book of the Year
- British Book Awards the Whitbread Book of the Year the Eleanor Farjeon Award & the Astrid Lindgren Award."