The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials 2)

Will is twelve, and he’s just killed a man. Now he’s on the run, determined to discover the truth about his missing father. But as he races through the streets of Oxford, desperately seeking sanctuary, he steps through a window into another world. Cittagazze is a strange and unsettling place, where soul-eating Spectres haunt the city streets, and the wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky. Here, the eerie Torre degli Angeli hides a powerful and secret object that people from many worlds would kill to possess. Then Will finds himself with a companion: a strange, savage girl called Lyra who is searching for something called Dust…

• The majestic second book of His Dark Materials trilogy

• The most acclaimed children’s fantasy of modern times

• Follows on from Carnegie Medal winner Northern Lights

• Utterly dazzling, spellbinding, magical storytelling

“The most ambitious work since Lord of the Rings... as intellectually thrilling as it is magnificently written.” Amanda Craig, New Statesman