He has served as President of the Society of Authors and is a notable campaigner for public libraries in the UK. Pullman is also known for the Sally Lockhart series and as an editor of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. And so perhaps it was inevitable that he would become a spy. The Book of Dust, another trilogy with some of the same characters and deepening the exploration of Pullman’s ideas, includes La Belle Sauvage(2017 Folio 2021) and The Secret Commonwealth (2019 Folio 2022). La Belle Sauvage Philip Pullman 4.15 96,270 ratings9,026 reviews Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2017) Malcolm Polstead is the kind of boy who notices everything but is not much noticed himself. It has been adapted for stage and TV, and the first book was also the basis for a major feature film. The trilogy won the Carnegie Medal and, later, the ‘Carnegie of Carnegies’, as well as the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust Series 1) by Philip Pullman 4.8 (17) Paperback (Reprint) 14.99 Hardcover 20.49 Paperback 14.99 eBook 8. He began publishing children’s fiction while working as a teacher in Summertown, north Oxford, a job he left after the success of Northern Lights(1995 published as T he Golden Compass in the United States), the first book in the trilogy His Dark Materials (Folio edition 2008).

As a schoolboy and student he discovered John Milton’s Paradise Lost and the poetry of William Blake, both of which have been significant influences on his own writing.

He graduated from Exeter College, Oxford, with a third-class BA in English in 1968 (Oxford later honoured him with a D.Litt. Sir Philip Pullman was born in Norwich and grew up in Wales, though he also travelled extensively due to his father’s work as a pilot in the Royal Air Force.

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