The Northern Kingdoms - Parallel Worlds 1

His Dark Materials is a magical and powerful trilogy, full of adventure, imagination, and mystery. Philip Pullman has been compared to C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, and Lewis Carroll, and has received numerous literary awards, such as the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Whitbread Book of the Year, the Smarties Prize, and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for his body of work. In Northern Lights, the protagonist, Lyra, is an eleven-year-old girl always accompanied by her daemon, Pantalaimon. It is with him that she embarks on a dangerous journey to the distant reaches of the North, to try and unravel its mysteries…

But reality proves terrifying… Lyra encounters fantastic creatures, witches soaring through icy skies, fatal spectres, and armoured bears, in a terrifying struggle between life and death, good and evil, the survival or annihilation of the world…