Sally Lockhart Mysteries Pack
As seen on TV starring Billie Piper! Four dazzling Victorian thrillers by the author of Northern Lights. Philip Pullman brings you a plucky heroine to rival his Lyra Silvertongue. Dare you miss out?
Beautiful young sleuth Sally Lockhart rides like a Cossack and shoots like a demon. And like any proper heroine, she has deadly foes to face! From Indian palaces to Chinese opium dens; from machines designed to kill to rubies cursed with human blood. Will Sally solve the deadly puzzles that surround her? And will she ever hunt her father’s killer down? If you love Philip Pullman, steampunk or detective fiction, every page will deliver a new thrill!
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Philip Pullman is probably the world’s most acclaimed living children’s author, best known for the trilogy of books known as His Dark Materials.
Awards
Philip won the Nestle Smarties award for both Clockwork and The Firework Maker’s Daughter. Northern Lights was published in hardback in July 1995. That year, it won the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and was Children’s Book of the Year at the British Book Awards.
The Amber Spyglass won WHSmith Children’s Book of the Year 2000 at the British Book Awards, was Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal and was longlisted for The Booker Prize 2001. Philip Pullman was voted Whitaker Author of the Year by the Booksellers Association. The Amber Spyglass went on to win both Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year and Whitbread Book of the Year 2001 and in doing so became the first children’s book to win the main prize in the award’s history.
Philip has also been recognised with two major awards for his contribution to literature: the Eleanor Farjeon award in 2002, and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize in 2005.
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