The second volume in Philip Pullman's incredible HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy, in a stunning gift edition, to publish alongside the major HBO/BBC TV series in autumn 2019.
Will has just killed a man. He's on the run. His escape will take him far
beyond his own world, to the eerie disquiet of a deserted city, and to a girl,
Lyra. Her fate is strangely linked to his own, and together they must find the
most powerful weapon in all the worlds.
"A unique look into the BBC s most popular family drama, Doctor Who- The Writer's Tale is a year in the life of the hit television series, as told by the show s Head Writer and Executive Producer. A candid and in-depth correspondence between Russell T Davies and journalist Benjamin Cook, the book explores in detail Russell's work on Series Four, revealing how he plans the series and works with the show's writers; where he gets his ideas for plot, character and scene; how actors are cast and other creative decisions are made; and how he juggles the demands of Doctor Who with the increasingly successful Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures spin-offs. Russell s scripts are discussed as they develop, and Russell and Ben s wide-ranging discussions bring in experiences from previous series of Doctor Who as well as other shows Russell has written and created, including Queer As Folk, Bob & Rose, and The Second Coming. The reader is given total access to the show as it s created, and the writing is everything you would expect from Russell T Davies- warm, witty, insightful, and honest. Fully illustrated with never-before-seen photos and artwork including original drawings by Russell
Philip Pullman's classic trilogy is now available as a stunning bind-up edition. Since the first volume was published in 1995, and has now been filmed as The Golden Compass, the trilogy has been acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, and has won the UK's top awards for children's literature. Today, the fabulous story of Lyra and her daemon is read and loved by adults and children alike. The extraordinary story moves between parallel universes. Beginning in Oxford, it takes Lyra and 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. And it contains one of the best villains 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 and the Astrid Lindgren Award.
Will and Lyra, whose fates are bound together by powers beyond their own
worlds, have been violently separated. But they must find each other, for
ahead of them lies the greatest war that has ever been - and a journey to a
dark place from which no-one has ever returned...
Mortal Leap tells a story we all know but have never heard: what happens when
you have an opportunity to take another person's identity? A wife identifies a
man badly disfigured in battle as her missing husband. What happens when he
decides to go along with her mistake? Mortal Leap is both adventure story and
metaphysical novel.
This remarkable book offers a rich mixture of more than 19,000 words expressions, legends, folklore, general knowledge and choice morsels of trivia, with explanations of everything from elephant in the room to sick as a parrot, from Doctor Who to dwile flonking
Philip Pullman's classic trilogy is now available as a stunning bind-up
edition. Since the first volume was published in 1995, the trilogy has been
acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, and has won the UK's top awards for
children's literature. Today, the story of Lyra and her daemon is read and
loved by adults and children alike.