He has also won many distinguished prizes, including the Carnegie Medal for The Golden Compass (and the reader-voted "Carnegie of Carnegies" for the best children's book of the past seventy years) the Whitbread (now Costa) Award for The Amber Spyglass a Booker Prize long-list nomination ( The Amber Spyglass) Parents' Choice Gold Awards ( The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass) and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, in honor of his body of work. He is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy ( The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass), which has been named one of the top 100 novels of all time by Newsweek and one of the all-time greatest novels by Entertainment Weekly. But as she delves deeper into the identity of a wealthy and elusive industrialist, she uncovers a plot so diabolical, it could subvert the entire civilized world.Ībout the Author PHILIP PULLMAN is one of the most acclaimed writers working today. verso.īook Synopsis WHEN ONE OF Sally's clients loses a large sum of money in the unexpected collapse of a British shipping firm, Sally sets out to investigate.
About the Book "Originally published in Great Britain in somewhat different form as The shadow on the plate by Oxford University Press in 1986"-T.p.
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