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When a small boy turns up on Bob and Joan's doorstep unable to say much except 'I was a rat', the kindly couple adopt him. It seems strange but Bob reads about odder things every day in his newspaper. To them, the sunny little chap is Roger, and he's trying hard to adapt to human life. But when he gets lost and ends up on the run, other people, egged on by their newspapers, are quick to see him as the Monster, a rodent fiend who could terrorise the town. Only a friend in a very high place could save Roger from the authorities who are determined to exterminate him... Cleverly weaving elements of the Cinderella story into a subtle parody of modern times, master storyteller Philip Pullman has created a gallery of fascinating characters from the virtuous to the villainous, in a book which will grip every reader who picks it up.

«Vols ser una bona pirotècnica? Camina sobre les meues flames!» Aquesta és la gran prova que el Dimoni del Foc planteja a Lila: si supera el repte, aconseguirà el sofre reial que li permetrà descobri

La Sally Lockhart viu dedicada a la seva filla, la Harriet, en una casa que comparteix amb els seus amics, lintrepid Jim Taylor i el genial Webster Garland. El seu negoci no havia estat mai tan prosper, pero un dia rep una peticio de divorci signada per un home que ella ni tan sols coneix. La nostra heroina necessitara reunir tota la seva astucia per no enfonsar-se ni perdre la batalla. Aquesta vegada tindra el suport den Daniel Goldberg, un periodista abnegat amb qui comparteix el gust per laventura, laudacia i una inesgotable set de justicia. I per damunt de tot plana lombra del malvat i poderos Tzaddik, un personatge que sha convertit en llegenda i el nom del qual provoca esgarrifances.

Will has just killed a man. He''s on the run. His escape will take him far beyond his own world, to the eerie disquiet of a deserted city, and to a girl, Lyra. Her fate is strangely linked to his own, and together they must find the most powerful weapon in all the worlds...

"Without this child, we shall all die."Lyra Belacqua and her animal daemon live half-wild and carefree among the scholars of Jordan College, Oxford.Her destiny will take her to the frozen lands of the Arctic, where witch-clans reign and ice-bears fight. And the extraordinary journey that awaits her will have immeasurable consequences far beyond her own world...

Will is twelve, and hes just killed a man. Now hes on the run, determined to discover the truth about his missing father. But as he races through the streets of Oxford, desperately seeking sanctuary, he steps through a window into another world.Cittagazze is a strange and unsettling place, where deadly soul-eating Spectres haunt the city streets, and the wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky. Soon Will finds himself with a companion: a strange, savage girl called Lyra who is searching for something called Dust. But she and Will have not met by accident.Their paths will take them to the eerie Torre degli Angeli, where they must find a powerful and secret object that people from many worlds would kill to possess...

What is that, trailing your footsteps, breathing softly down your neck?Rediscover the magic and wonder of the original Grimm Tales, retold by master-storyteller Philip Pullman. In this stage version by Philip Wilson, youll meet the familiar characters Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel and some unexpected ones too, such as Hans-My-Hedgehog, the Goose Girl at the Spring and the remarkable Thousandfurs.Full of deliciously dark twists and turns, the tales come to life in all their glittering, macabre brilliance a delight for children and adults alike.These Grimm Tales, adapted for the stage by Philip Wilson from Philip Pullmans version of the original tales, were first performed as immersive storytelling experiences underneath Shoreditch Town Hall, London, in 2014, and Bargehouse on the South Bank in 2015. They also offer plentiful opportunities for youth theatres, schools and amateur companies looking for a vivid new version of the classic fairytales.

En el Londres victoriano, las estrafalarias oficinas de Lockhart y Garland –socios, amigos y mucho más– bullen de frenética actividad. Mientras Jim Taylor, el aventurero, intenta ayudar a un asustado

The much-anticipated new work from the author of The Golden Compass is coming at last!Renowned storyteller Philip Pullman returns to the parallel world of Lyra Belacqua and His Dark Materials for a thrilling and epic adventure in which daemons, alethiometers, and the Magisterium all play a part.The Book of Dust will be a work in three parts, like His Dark Materials (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass).The title and cover of this first story will remain under wraps until a later date, but it can be revealed that the book is set ten years before The Golden Compass and centers on the much-loved character Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon.Philip Pullman offers these tantalizing details: Ive always wanted to tell the story of how Lyra came to be living at Jordan College, and in thinking about it, I discovered a long story that began when she was a baby and will end when shes grown up. This volume and the next will cover two parts of Lyras life: starting at the beginning of her story and returning to her twenty years later. As for the third and final part, my lips are sealed.So, second: is it a prequel? Is it a sequel? Its neither. In fact, The Book of Dust is . . . an equel. It doesnt stand before or after His Dark Materials, but beside it. Its a different story, but there are settings that readers of His Dark Materials will recognize, and characters theyve met before. Also, of course, there are some characters who are new to us, including an ordinary boy (a boy we have glimpsed in an earlier part of Lyras story, if we were paying attention) who, with Lyra, is caught up in a terrifying adventure that takes him into a new world.Third: why return to Lyras world? Dust. Questions about that mysterious and troubling substance were already causing strife ten years before His Dark Materials, and at the center of The Book of Dust is the struggle between a despotic and totalitarian organization, which wants to stifle speculation and inquiry, and those who believe thought and speech should be free. The idea of Dust suffused His Dark Materials. Little by little through that story the idea of what Dust was became clearer and clearer, but I always wanted to return to it and discover more.The books of the His Dark Materials trilogy were showered with praise, and the Cincinnati Enquirer proclaimed, Pullman has created the last great fantasy masterpiece of the twentieth century. With The Book of Dust, Philip Pullman embarks on an equally grand adventure, sure to be hailed as the first great fantasy masterpiece of the twenty-first century.

The Book of Dust will be a work in three parts, like His Dark Materials (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass).The title and cover of this first story will remain under wraps until a later date, but it can be revealed that the book is set ten years before The Golden Compass and centers on the much-loved character Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon.Philip Pullman offers these tantalizing details: Ive always wanted to tell the story of how Lyra came to be living at Jordan College, and in thinking about it, I discovered a long story that began when she was a baby and will end when shes grown up. This volume and the next will cover two parts of Lyras life: starting at the beginning of her story and returning to her twenty years later. As for the third and final part, my lips are sealed.So, second: is it a prequel? Is it a sequel? Its neither. In fact, The Book of Dust is . . . an equel.'' It doesnt stand before or after His Dark Materials, but beside it. Its a different story, but there are settings that readers of His Dark Materials will recognize, and characters theyve met before. Also, of course, there are some characters who are new to us, including an ordinary boy (a boy we have glimpsed in an earlier part of Lyras story, if we were paying attention) who, with Lyra, is caught up in a terrifying adventure that takes him into a new world.

Lyra a 20 ans. A Sainte-Sophia, o¹ elle étudie, elle croise de nouveau le chemin de Malcolm, devenu enseignant. Animés par le mystére de la Poussiére, ils s'aventurent au delá des frontiéres de l'Eur

The spellbinding sequel to The Golden Compass, the modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an "All-Time Greatest Novel" and Newsweek hailed as a "Top 100 Book of All Time", continues the epic adventure, catapulting listeners between worlds and toward a devastating discovery.

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Warm, entertaining, and above all thought-provoking, Daemon Voices provides a remarkable insight into the mind of one of our greatest writers. He explains which storytellers have meant the most to him, including William Blake and John Milton, why their work has resonated with him, and how it has inspired his own thinking. In over 30 essays, written over 20 years, Philip Pullman reveals the narratives that have shaped his vision, his experience of writing, and the keys to mastering the art of storytelling.