With sales of three-quarters of a million copies last year alone, Philip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials is already acknowledged as a classic. A cunning blend of traditional children’s adventure with sophisticated fantasy and science fiction, it follows the escapades of Lyra and Will in their parallel worlds. Dramatized by award-winning playwright Nicholas Wright for the National Theatre.
Philip Pullman is the author of of several novels for adults and children, but it was the His Dark Materials trilogy that gained him world-wide fame and made him the first children's writer to win the Whitbread Award.