“My hands shook, turning the pages.” The
Times
“Only Rankin can light and photograph faces with
such intensity and drama. I'm delighted with this vision of my
story.” Philip Pullman

The second volume in the ground-breaking His Dark Materials
trilogy, now with a breath-taking new cover
creatively directed and photographed by the legendary Rankin.

“What is he? A friend, or an enemy?” 

“He is a murderer.” 

Will has just killed a man. He's on the run.

His escape will take him far beyond his own world, to the eerie
disquiet of a deserted city, and to a girl, Lyra. Her fate is strangely
linked to his own, and together they must find the most
powerful weapon in all the worlds...

 



Rankin’s lens has exquisitely captured the bond between
character and daemon; the soul of the stories





The His Dark Materials trilogy is award-winning, internationally
bestselling and a modern classic.





Now a major BBC/HBO television series, with an all-star cast
of Ruth Wilson, James McAvoy, Anne-Marie Duff and Lin-Manuel Miranda