Philip Pullman returns to the world of His Dark Materials with this magnificent first volume of The Book of Dust.
Philip Pullman is one of the most highly respected children's authors writing today. Winner of many prestigious awards, including the Carnegie of Carnegies and the Whitbread Award, Pullman's epic fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials has been acclaimed as a modern classic. It has sold 17.5 million copies worldwide and been translated into 40 languages. In 2005 he was awarded the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. He lives in Oxford.
Pullman is an easeful storyteller and an intricate and inventive
world-builder, and everything he has to write is worth reading.
*Telegraph*
Fans of His Dark Materials will find themselves joyfully immersed
in a familiar world of daemons, alethiometers, the evil
Magisterium, friendly witches and foul night-ghasts, yet also
delighted by Pullman's new material; meanwhile, awaiting first-time
readers is all the pleasure of commencing their own journey into
this most captivating of universes at the very beginning of Lyra's
story.
*Independent*
No one else writes like Pullman . . . terrifying, transporting,
exhilarating - and entirely worth the 17-year wait.
*Metro*
He is a master storyteller . . . Pullman creates a setting so
evocative that I actually dreamed I was in it (my dog was my
daemon).
*Evening Standard*
I am confident in pronouncing that people will love the first
volume of Philip Pullman’s trilogy, The Book of Dust, with the same
helpless vehemence that stole over them when The Golden Compass
came out in the mid-’90s, or even when they first met their
partners or held their newborn children . . . Reading this novel is
like standing in a room in which suddenly all of the windows have
blown open at once.
*Slate*
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