![]() ![]() ![]() But before too long, Lyra’s Uncle, Lord Asriel, returns and she becomes embroiled in a world of magic, mystery and peril. Lyra Belacqua, an orphan who lives with the scholars, runs wild through college, getting into scrapes with her daemon Pantalaimon and her best friend Roger. The first book in the trilogy opens in Jordan College, Oxford. The story follows the coming of age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, born into different, parallel worlds but with the ability to travel between them. There has also been a His Dark Materials play in the West End and a Hollywood film starring Nicole Kidman. The Dark Materials cast included Dafne Keen as Lyra, Ruth Wilson as Mrs Coulter and James McAvoy as Lord Asriel. ![]() ![]() The Northern Lights books have been brought to life on stage and screen several times, most recently for the BBC in 2019. The extraordinary fantasy world captured children’s and adult’s imaginations everywhere, with the books selling millions of copies and winning awards, including the Carnegie Medal in 1995 for The Northern Lights and the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year for The Amber Spyglass. Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy started with the publication of The Northern Lights in 1995. ![]()
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