The Golden Compass, 20th Anniversary Edition (His Dark Materials)

A Newsweek Top 100 Book of All Time

An Entertainment Weekly All-Time Greatest Novel

Winner of the Guardian Prize for Children’s Fiction 

Winner of the Carnegie Medal

“Very grand indeed.” —The New York Times

“The most magnificent fantasy series since The Lord of the Rings.” —The Oregonian

“Breathtaking…a glittering gem.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred

“Superb…all-stops-out thrilling.” —The Washington Post

“Marvelous…the writing is elegant and challenging.” —The New Yorker

“The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy /adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.” –Terry Brooks

“Powerful…fantasy-adventure that sparkles with childlike wonder.” —The Boston Sunday Globe

“Thrillingly paced and exotic…breathtaking.” —The Columbus Dispatch

“Masterful storytelling…with a cast of instantly beguiling characters.” —Dallas Morning News

“The last great fantasy masterpiece of the twentieth century. An astounding achievement.” —The Cincinnati Enquirer

The Book of Dust, Pullman’s eagerly anticipated return to the world of His Dark Materials, will also be a book in three parts. It began with La Belle Sauvage and continues with The Secret Commonwealth.

Philip Pullman is the author of many other beloved novels. 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. He has written a magnificent collection, Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, and his essays and lectures on writing and storytelling have been gathered in a volume called Dæmon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling.

Philip Pullman lives in Oxford, England.