Discovering the Golden Compass: A Guide to Philip Pullman's Dark Materials
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
Philip Pullman, the author of the Northern Lights fantasy trilogy, has taken a leaf out of JK Rowling's book by helping to create a special charity fund-raiser for Christmas.
FantasyBookReview.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Books by Philip Pullman are to be sold in an online auction expected to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for children with Aids. He is collaborating with charity publisher Oak Tree Fine Press to publish a new book entitled À Outrance, which will feature an extract from the His Dark Materials trilogy, as well as [...]
Amatheyas Blog (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... Jane Austine 19 – The Ring of Fire – Beth Webb 20 – Northern Lights – Philip Pullman 21 – The Subtle Knife – Philip Pullman 22 - The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman 23 - The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory 24 - Red Lotus - Pai Kit Fai 25 - Dead to the World - Charlaine Harris 26 - Dead as a Dornail - Charlaine...
Randy McDonald's Livejournal (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
There's still a bit less than a half-hour left, so there's time for me to post a link to this powerful article by Alice Welbourn via Open Democracy's Livejournal feed, "When things fall apart" . I met some very special people in this bizarre parallel world of Oxford we all inhabited. We know of Philip Pullman’s parallel world of the Northern Lights but this was –...
HipWriterMama (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
December is all about INDEPENDENCE as Tamora Pierce joins the rgz Circle of Stars with her books, Trickster’s Choice and Trickster’s Queen . Please join readergirlz as we chat about related topics all month at the rgz blog . rgz LIVE! with Tamora is scheduled for Wednesday, December 16th at 6 pm PST/9 pm EST. Gather the postergirlz recommended reads to accompany Trickster’s Choice...
Open a Bookshop, what could possibly go wrong? (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
We’ve been running a survey where we asked our customers to name their 5 favourite books of all time (in no particular order). We had thousands of replies and we’re really grateful to all of you who took the time to vote. From all your choices we can now reveal the Top 50 most popular books. First of all a recap on numbers 50-11 11 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez...
Open a Bookshop, what could possibly go wrong? (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
We're getting to the business end of the chart now. Here are the books that just missed out on a Top 10 slot. 20. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 19. Middlemarch by George Eliot 18. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 17. Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell 16. Northern Lights by Philip Pullman 15. Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 14. Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger 13....
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... in Yuletide-born shows such as War Horse, Coram Boy, and pre-eminently the adaptation of Philip Pullman's masterpiece, His Dark Materials.
