Northern Lights

"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. 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...

"A genuine masterpiece of intelligent, imaginative, storytelling" Mail On Sunday

"One of those books which one can hardly bear to close" Scotsman