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Northern Lights - The Graphic Novel

About the Author
PHILIP PULLMAN is one of the most acclaimed writers working today. He is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy (The Golden Compass , The Subtle Knife , The Amber Spyglass ), which has been named one of the top 100 novels of all time by Newsweek  and one of the all-time greatest novels by Entertainment Weekly . He has also won many distinguished prizes, including the Carnegie Medal for The Golden Compass  (and the reader-voted “Carnegie of Carnegies” for the best children’s book of the past seventy years); the Whitbread (now Costa) Award for The Amber Spyglass ; a Booker Prize long-list nomination (The Amber Spyglass ); Parents’ Choice Gold Awards (The Subtle Knife  and The Amber Spyglass ); and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, in honor of his body of work. In 2004, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
 
It has recently been announced that The Book of Dust , the much anticipated new book from Mr. Pullman, also set in the world of His Dark Materials, will be published as a major work in three parts.
 
Philip Pullman is the author of many other much-lauded novels. Other volumes related to His Dark Materials: Lyra’s Oxford , Once Upon a Time in the North , and The Collectors . For younger readers: I Was a Rat! ; Count Karlstein ; Two Crafty Criminals ; Spring-Heeled Jack  and The Scarecrow  and His Servant . For older readers: the Sally Lockhart quartet: The Ruby in the Smoke , The Shadow in the North , The Tiger in the Well , and The Tin Princess; The White Mercedes ; and The Broken Bridge .
 
Philip Pullman lives in Oxford, England. Photograph © Michael Leckie