His Dark Materials #2: The Subtle Knife (TV tie-in edition)
Will is twelve, and he’s just killed a man. Now he’s 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 soul-eating Spectres haunt the city streets, and the wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky. Here, the eerie Torre degli Angeli hides a powerful and secret object that people from many worlds would kill to possess. Then Will finds himself with a companion: a strange, savage girl called Lyra who is searching for something called Dust…
- The majestic second book of His Dark Materials trilogy
- The most acclaimed children’s fantasy of modern times
- Follows on from Carnegie Medal winner Northern Lights
- Now with a striking new cover design by Chris Wormell
‘The most ambitious work since Lord of the Rings... as intellectually thrilling as it is magnificently written.’ Amanda Craig, New Statesman