Northern Lights (1995 also published as The Golden Compass, 1996), the first volume of the trilogy, won the 1996 Carnegie Medal in Literature and was adapted into a major motion picture (2007). Pullman then began work on His Dark Materials, which centres on Lyra Belacqua (or Lyra Silvertongue), a young girl who lives in a parallel world ruled by the sinister Church (or Magisterium). Pullman’s Sally Lockhart detective stories, set in Victorian London, were published between 19. In the 1980s and ’90s Pullman began writing many titles for children and young adults, beginning with Count Karlstein or, Ride of the Demon Huntsman (1982). His first titles- The Haunted Storm (1972) and Galatea (1976)-were oriented toward an adult audience.

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