![]() ![]() But that’s the story that wanted to be told. He is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife. Yes, it is a darker book, I can’t deny that. Philip Pullman is one of the most acclaimed writers working today. “I’ve got older too, perhaps more cynical and closer to despair and all that sort of thing. “His Darker Materials, perhaps? I think that is true,” Pullman said. ![]() ![]() The new book is darker than the stories that came before, and the language more adult: there is swearing, including use of the f-word. The second book will skip forward to Lyra as a 20-year-old undergraduate. It is set 10 years earlier and revisits the heroine, Lyra, as a baby. La Belle Sauvage is the start of another trilogy, called The Book of Dust. His Dark Materials - the trilogy of Northern Lights (1995), The Subtle Knife (1997) and The Amber Spyglass (2000) - sold 18 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages. Pullman was speaking at Oxford University’s Bodleian Library, where he launched his new novel. and Australia, followed by The Subtle Knife and The. Authors’ royalties are a cut of the sale price, not the price printed on the back cover.Ī report last year found that the average income for a writer in the UK is £12,500, well below the minimum wage. The first novel is The Golden Compass, though it was originally published as Northern Lights in the U.K. Its dissolution mean that online retailers, supermarkets and major chains could discount books. Until the 1990s, the Net Book Agreement ensured that titles were sold at a fixed price. ![]()
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