Philip Pullman writes fantasy for children and adults, best known for His Dark Materials. Beginning with Northern Lights, the trilogy follows Lyra Belacqua through parallel worlds inhabited by armoured bears, witches, angels and human souls that exist outside the body as animal-shaped daemons. The story broadens from Lyra's search for missing children into questions about authority, knowledge, consciousness and freedom. Pullman returns to the same world in The Book of Dust, while the Sally Lockhart novels offer historical mystery and adventure in Victorian London. His fantasy is adventurous and idea-driven, balancing chase sequences and large-scale conflict with philosophical and religious questions that become more prominent as the story develops. His work spans children's fantasy, parallel-world fiction and historical adventure, and may suit readers of Diana Wynne Jones, Ursula K. Le Guin and Garth Nix. Read more Less
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