His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife

“My hands shook, turning the pages.” TheTimes “Only Rankin can light and photograph faces withsuch intensity and drama. I'm delighted with this vision of mystory.” Philip Pullman The second volume in the ground-breaking His Dark Materialstrilogy, now with a breath-taking new cover creatively directed and photographed by the legendary Rankin.“What is he? A friend, or an enemy?” “He is a murderer.” Will has just killed a man. He's on the run.His escape will take him far beyond his own world, to the eeriedisquiet of a deserted city, and to a girl, Lyra. Her fate is strangelylinked to his own, and together they must find the mostpowerful weapon in all the worlds... Rankin’s lens has exquisitely captured the bond betweencharacter and daemon; the soul of the storiesThe His Dark Materials trilogy is award-winning, internationallybestselling and a modern classic.Now a major BBC/HBO television series, with an all-star castof Ruth Wilson, James McAvoy, Anne-Marie Duff and Lin-Manuel Miranda