In Philip Pullman’s most celebrated fantasy realm, there’s no closer relationship than that between a person and his or her daemon—a kind of external soul in the shape of an animal—and no greater ...

Philip Pullman's The Secret Commonwealth is a big novel full of big ideas, big characters and big sorrows. It is a tale of spies and philosophies and wit, of factions vying for control of the truth — ...

While on the surface she may look like any other university student attending St. Sophia's College for women, underneath she carries the burdens of her adventurous younger life. The fact that she and ...

A lot has changed for Lyra Belacqua since the 1995 publication of Northern Lights, retitled The Golden Compass for North American audiences. A 12-year-old with mystic intuition sufficient to read the ...

The latest installment in Pullman's Book of Dust trilogy finds beloved heroine Lyra grown up and troubled, at odds with her daemon Pan and in... Philip Pullman's The Secret Commonwealth is a big novel ...