“Remarkable writing: courageous and dangerous as the best art should be.” The Times “Only Rankin can light and photograph faces with such intensity and drama. I’m delighted with this vision of my story.” Philip Pullman The first volume in the ground-breaking His Dark Materials trilogy, now with a breath-taking new cover creatively directed and photographed by the legendary Rankin. Lyra Belacqua and her animal daemon live half-wild and carefree among scholars of Jordan College, Oxford. The destiny that awaits her will take her to the frozen lands of the Arctic, where witch-clans reign and ice-bears fight. Her extraordinary journey will have immeasurable consequences far beyond her own world…
