Pauli, Michelle (21 June 2007). "Pullman wins 'Carnegie of Carnegies' ". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 4 May 2010. Mary Malone, is a physicist and former nun from Will's world. She meets Lyra during Lyra's first visit to Will's world. Lyra provides Mary with insight into the nature of Dust. Agents of the Church force Mary to flee to the world of the Mulefa. There she constructs the amber spyglass, which enables her to see the otherwise invisible Dust. Her purpose is to learn why Dust, which Mulefa civilisation depends on, is flowing out of the universe. The Collectors was Audible’s Christmas gift to its members in 2014 and I was intrigued by it because of the narrator primarily. Bill Nighy is a reknowned actor and I though an audiobook by him would be an interesting listen.

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Critics have compared the trilogy with C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, which Pullman despises, [15] [16] and also with such fantasy books as Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson and A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. [17] [18] Awards and recognition [ edit ] The story takes place in a university between 2 men discussing two pieces of art that seem to turn up in the same place, no matter where it is over the last 70 years.His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of Northern Lights (1995; published as The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000). It follows the coming of age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes. The novels have won a number of awards, including the Carnegie Medal in 1995 for Northern Lights and the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year for The Amber Spyglass. In 2003, the trilogy was ranked third on the BBC's The Big Read poll. [1]

The Collectors by Philip Pullman, Narrated by Bill Nighy The Collectors by Philip Pullman, Narrated by Bill Nighy

Serafina Pekkala is the beautiful queen of a clan of Northern witches. Her snow-goose dæmon Kaisa, like all witches' dæmons, can travel much farther apart from her than the dæmons of humans, without feeling the pain of separation.

A 32 minute Christmas gift to its members from Audible, this prequel to a series of books by Pullman benefits from being read by the excellent Bill Nighy. I'm sure it would have been helpful if I'd had some knowledge of the series (I don't) as I did struggle to know quite where the story was leading. However, it's all very engaging and well executed and is quite powerful in and of itself. His Dark Materials: Gift Edition– A special edition featuring all three titles in the award-winning trilogy: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. Philip Pullman is one of the most well-loved and admired British authors of the last few decades. He has written numerous novels for both adults and children, most notably the award-winning His Dark Materials trilogy. The Collectors, written exclusively for Audible, serves as a great introduction to this series, while revealing a little something extra to fans of Lyra and her world. A lovely little short from Pullman. This is a gem of a story, wonderfully crafted and creepy, set in the same reality (I think 'universe' is the wrong term, considering) as the wonderful His Dark Materials trilogy. An Oxford don and his visitor discuss a pair of works of art that always seem to end up together and may be connected to some deaths.