Philip Pullman

By Grey_Area Ever since I was four years old, in 1972— before the merger of punk to steam, I wanted to be Captain Nemo. After devouring Verne and Wells, I discovered the Oswald Bastable trilogy by Michael Moorcock. Philip José Farmer further fueled my feverish pubescent imagination with such works as Th...

By Peter Walker The government should rethink new rules for vetting people who work with children to avoid unnecessary bureaucracy, the man who led the inquiry that prompted the procedures said today. Last month a group of leading children's authors, including Philip Pullman, told the Guardian they w...

By Alison Flood Authors including Michael Morpurgo, Quentin Blake and Anthony Horowitz have all hit out at the scheme, saying along with Pullman and Fine that it meant they wouldn't be appearing in schools in the future. "All of us are constantly invited to do tours of schools abroad. If we can no longer ent...

Philip Pullman, the best selling author, has been barred from reading his books in schools because he refused to be vetted for a new anti-paedophile database that he said "assumes my guilt". His Dark Materials author Philip Pullman said he was happy to give up talks to make a stand against B...

One of the literary sensations of the past quarter of a century, Philip Pullman has managed to keep His Dark Materials in the public eye, writes Lizz Brain.

By Alison Flood It seems to be fuelled by the same combination of prurience, sexual fear and cold political calculation," the author of the bestselling His Dark Materials trilogy said today. "When you go into a school as an author or an illustrator you talk to a class at a time or else to the whole school. How o...

Alan Gibbons, the two time Carnegie Medal nominee, is urging the British government to give kids the same rights as prison inmates - the right to have a library in schools.

Philip Pullman surveyed the scene as he received an honorary degree from Oxford University and said no other institution could do it better.

 United Kingdom Philip Pullman, author of the Northern Lights trilogy, never puts himself forward. And last month Anthony Horowitz, whose teen 'superspy' Alex Rider books have sold millions, told Scottish children: "We don't need a spokesperson to be the one person ...

It is a sunny Welsh afternoon and Dr Rowan Williams , the archbishop of A Canterbury, is strolling down a cow-parsley-frilled lane from the Guardian Hay festival to St Mary's church.

 UK His Dark Materials author Philip Pullman, who used to live in North Oxford but now resides in Cumnor, and Inspector Morse and spin-off series Lewis star, Kevin Whately, backed the campaign to prevent the Spring Residential flats from being built, ...

 - Robert V.S. Redick Though he's been compared to George RR Martin and Philip Pullman, I don't really see it. Other than the obvious, of course: fantasy writers who sell a lot of books. But certainly in Red Wolf Conspiracy (Ballantine) I'm most put in mind of Robin Hobb ...

 WA - Geoff Baker Among the titles Morrow has read digitally include George Orwell's “1984;” “The Kite Runner,” by Khaled Hosseini; “Wicked,” by Gregory Maguire; and “The Golden Compass: Books 1 through 3,” by Philip Pullman. Morrow said he can always go out and buy the ...

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The His Dark Materialstrilogy comprises the award-winning Northern Lights (known as The Golden Compass in the USA), The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. If a sequel to 2007's film version of The Golden Compass is ever made, we hope we'll get to see ...

 IL By Jay Seattle Children's Theatre wraps ups its 2008-09 Mainstage Season with their 101st world premiere, I Was a Rat! by Barbara Field, based on the book by Philip Pullman and directed by SCT Artistic Associate Rita Giomi. I Was a Rat! opens May 1, ...

 UK - Phil Miller Now Philip Pullman, the best-selling author and creator of the His Dark Materials trilogy, has scratched that same creative itch and made a cameo appearance in the stage version of his controversial and popular novels. The writer appeared as an unnamed ...

 UK Writers from Penelope Lively, for whom it inspired a short story, to Philip Pullman, who included it in The Subtle Knife (young Lyra visits the museum — unnamed but clearly distinguishable — and uses her alethiometer on several of the skulls), ...

 UK From the multi-award-winning trilogy of books by Philip Pullman, this new stage version condensed into two full-length plays promises to be one of the most exciting theatrical events of the season for both children and adults. ...

 CA Before the "His Dark Materials" trilogy, British author Philip Pullman wrote a young-adult tragedy of first love and disastrous mistrust set in contemporary Oxford called "The White Mercedes." Subsequently renamed "The Butterfly Tattoo," it has now ...

 UK City councillor Colin Cook, who has responsibility for the city centre, welcomed news of the movie and added: “The Golden Compass, the film of one of Philip Pullman’s books, brought people to the city and I’m sure the Alice film will have the same ...

 UK Since the final instalment was published in 2000 Philip Pullman’s fantasy adventure for young people has been a phenomenon, not only in bookshops but on the stage of the National Theatre, where this adaptation by Nicholas Wright was first staged in ...

 United Kingdom In recent years he’s worked on the glossy Philip Pullman adaptations of The Ruby in the Smoke and The Shadow in the North (both BBC One), and created the brilliantly inscrutable villain Freddie Graham for BBC One’s award-winning thriller Criminal ...

 UK AFTER the breathless and mysterious adventures of Part 1, battle lines are drawn up in this second part of Philip Pullman’s fantasy epic. While heroine Lyra prepares to rescue her friend Roger from the underworld, her father Lord Asriel is planning a ...

 New Zealand From best selling author Philip Pullman, Billie Piper stars as the heroine Sally Lockhart in The Shadow In The North and The Ruby In The Smoke. Sally Lockhart is volatile, passionate and brave as a lioness. Recently orphaned, Sally is alone and being ...

 India The degree of Doctor of Letters will also be conferred on Philip Pullman, a novelist of international distinction. He is best known for the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy, which is being made into a series of films. Pullman's novels, many of them aimed ...

 United Kingdom that so offends Philip Pullman. (Not for nothing does Lyra, the contrarian heroine of Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, begin her own seditious adventures in a wardrobe in Oxford.) I moved on – not beyond hoping for faith, for numinous meaning, ...

 MN More than assistants, here they’re really emanations of the Devil’s psyche, much like the Daemons in Philip Pullman’s "His Dark Materials" novels. They do what he’s thinking, and, as such, they’re up to no good. No peasant maiden is safe from them. ...

By Fyrefly First Line: Will tugged at his mother’s hand and said, “Come on, come on…” Posted in 4 stars, Fantasy, Young Adult   Tagged: book, book review, his dark materials, philip pullman, review revisited, the subtle knife    Re-Read. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman (1997) His Dark Materia...

By rss@youtube.com (gguru1) the alethiometer replica from The Noble Collection may be the closest you'll ever get to owning a real alethiometer unless you're Philip Pullman and can hire a jeweler and watch maker to have one custom made for you. This is a heavy, great looking, and great feeling copy of the prop used in Ne...

By Bookman Beattie(noreply@blogger.com) And it is an absolute bargain at $35.00. Unbelievable value. I bought my copy at UBS Canterbury.They had a big pile of them, the English lit students will love them.Oh, and I should mention Julian Patrick, the General Editor is professor of English at the University of Toronto. He deserves accol...

 NY - Nov 25, 2008 A conversation with Philip Pullman, the author of the atheist young-adult series “His Dark Materials,” convinced her that experience is more important than ...

Philip Pullman , the best-selling author of the trilogy His Dark Materials , has rounded on the headmistress of a comprehensive school in Chesterfield.

By noreply@blogger.com (Gotthammer) There's no arguing its a crying shame that many Christians attribute "church" to the building they attend their services in. And yes, there are likely many syncretic elements within the traditional church; but I think the implication given by these well-meaning Christians when they ma...

CELEBRATED novelist Philip Pullman opened Liverpool’s Literary Festival last night. Pullman, best known for his award-winning His Dark Materials trilogy, the first of which was filmed as The Golden Compass, gave the opening talk at ...

By Seth Given the huge success of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, the first volume of which, The Golden Compass on this side of the pond, has been made into a major motion picture, it’s no surprise that Pullman has since continued ...

 United Kingdom - Oct 9, 2008 The decision follows a full public inquiry into the future of the now-derelict site which inspired Mr Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy and featured in ...

By Cory Doctorow Just in time for Banned Books Week, here's Philip "Golden Compass" Pullman on why book bans -- especially religiously inspired book bans -- are so futile and wrong: Because they never learn. The inevitable result of trying to ban something – book, film, play, pop song, whatever – is that fa...

Before Lyra, before polar bears and His Dark Materials, and before his first children’s book, Count Karlstein, in 1982, Philip Pullman was a lowly drudge in the very humblest halls of lexicography. Pullman in fact spent his earliest ...

By susieq46 The Golden Compass. by Philip Pullman category Science Fiction & Fantasy. status (set by AnonymousFinder): to be read. Global Overview for this book · Click to browse for books from our affiliates · Amazon.com | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.uk ...

By MrPopularSentiment The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman. Absolutely fantastic book! While I do think it would be fabulous for children to read (I don't think it would be appropriate for anyone younger than 10, though), it has more than enough content for ...

Professor Masson wrote this review of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials books for the Christian Literary Studies Group in 2003. It provides a fascinating analysis of the trilogy and its author, but of course makes no reference to the ...

Over the years they have had many celebrated authors hsting events; from Philip Pullman and Jaqueline Wilson to Roald Dahl, who opened the shop in 1977!

By Wendy One of the most useful sites on the Web is What Should I Read Next?, a service that gives you reading suggestions for pretty much any book you plug in. For example, Harry Potter: The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materials - Book III - Philip Pullman See Amazon UK | US Northern Lights (His Dark Mater...

By Brian Ashcraft Did a quick Wiki of the book. Seems there's been a ton of criticism of it recently. For example, J.K. Rowling said, ""There comes a point where Susan, who was the older girl, is lost to Narnia because she becomes interested in lipstick. She's become irreligious basically because she found sex. I h...

For those of you anticipating The Golden Compass, we have the following behind the scenes clip and synopsis that have been brought to our attention from the movieweb:The Golden Compass is the first movie based on the bestselling Philip Pullman novels. The "His Dark Materials" trilogy is...

By Gina Ruiz The Amber Spyglass, the final chapter is incredible. I kept thinking that the last book would somehow miss the mark but I have no idea why I would think that. If anything, The Amber Spyglass surpasses the other two and concludes the series in a most phenomenal way.

By Ryan Stewart Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, New Line, Fandom, Scripts & Screenwriting, Movie Marketing, Religious, Nicole Kidman, Daniel CraigRegular readers of Cinematical know that we recently visited the London set of The Golden Compass, but we're holding back our coverage until a d...

By Peter T Chattaway Oh, and check out this quote:[Producer Deborah] Forte, a woman of steely determination, described The Golden Compass as "the first full-scale fantasy film that has stars in it". She discounted Ian McKellen in The Lord of the Rings, as "he is not a big-budget star".What a bizarre thing to sa...

By limyaael@livejournal.com Forsala trilogy by Hilari Bell- one of three main characters is a peddler (suggested by wordweaver). His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman- a physicist and former nun is among the protagonists (suggested by gehayi.) Lords of the Sky, by Angus Wells- protagonist is a storyteller (suggest...