Author

Philip Pullman

12 award wins, 16 nominations across 11 books.

Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL is an English writer from Norwich. He is the best-selling author of several books, most notably his trilogy of fantasy novels, [*His Dark Materials*](/series/OL330755L/His_Dark_Materials), and his fictional biography of Jesus, *The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ*. The first of *His Dark Materials* has been turned into the film The Golden Compass and the first two books from his Sally Lockhart series have been adapted for television.

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ClockworkHis Dark MaterialsLa Belle SauvageNorthern LightsOnce Upon a Time in the NorthThe Amber SpyglassThe Golden CompassThe Ruby in the SmokeThe Scarecrow and His ServantThe Secret CommonwealthThe Subtle Knife
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Clockwork

1 Nomination

106 pages

Long ago in Germany, a storyteller's story and an apprentice clockwork maker's nightmare meet in a menacing, lifelike figure created by the strange Dr. Kalmenius.

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His Dark Materials

1 Award Won

981 pages

Philip Pullman's classic trilogy is now available as a stunning, large-format, bind-up edition. Since the first volume was published in 1955, and has now been filmed as "The Golden Compass", the trilogy has been acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, and has won the UK's top awards for children's literature. Today, the fabulous story of Lyra and her daemon is read and loved by adults and children alike. The extraordinary story moves between parallel universes.

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La Belle Sauvage

1 Award Won5 Nominations

Published 2017-10-19 · 480 pages

Malcolm Polstead is the kind of boy who notices everything but is not much noticed himself. And so perhaps it was inevitable that he would become a spy....

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Northern Lights

1 Award Won

Published 1995

In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors.

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Once Upon a Time in the North

1 Nomination

Published 2008-04-08 · 112 pages

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The Amber Spyglass

4 Awards Won4 Nominations

536 pages

In the astonishing finale to the His Dark Materials trilogy, Lyra and Will are in unspeakable danger. With help from Iorek Byrnison the armored bear and two tiny Gallivespian spies, they must journey to a dank and gray-lit world where no living soul has ever gone. All the while, Dr. Mary Malone builds a magnificent Amber Spyglass. An assassin hunts her down, and Lord Asriel, with a troop of shining angels, fights his mighty rebellion, in a battle of strange allies—and shocking sacrifice.

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The Golden Compass

3 Awards Won1 Nomination

80 pages

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The Ruby in the Smoke

1 Award Won

Published 1988-11-12 · 230 pages

"Beware the seven blessings" When she first utters there words, sixteen-year-old Sally Lockhart doesn't know their meaning. But when an employee of her late father hears them, he dies of fear. Thus begins Sally's terrifying journey into the seamy underworld of Victorian London, in search of clues that will solve the puzzle of ther father's death. Pursued by villains and cutthroats at every turn, she at last uncovers two dark mysteries. One involves the opium trade; the other, a stolen ruby of enormous value.

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The Scarecrow and His Servant

1 Nomination
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Awards & Nominations
Carnegie Medal
2004
Nominee
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The Secret Commonwealth

2 Nominations

Published 2019-10-03 · 656 pages

LYRA SILVERTONGUE thought her adventuring days were long over. Now a twenty-year-old undergraduate at St. Sophia's College, she could almost begin to doubt that she'd once traveled to the world of the dead were it not for the painful separation from her daemon, Pantalaimon.

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The Subtle Knife

1 Award Won1 Nomination

350 pages

As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife.

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