There are worlds beyond our own - the Compass will show the way...


The second novel in Philip Pullman's epic HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy.
The first, NORTHERN LIGHTS, is now the stunning motion picture
THE GOLDEN COMPASS, made by New Line Cinema and Scholastic Media.


THE SUBTLE KNIFE brings Lyra to an eerie city where she meets a mysterious
boy - a murderer. Will's fate is strangely linked with
hers, and together they must find a powerful and secret object which
people from many worlds would kill to possess.

"A work of genius" TIME OUT